We eventually reached a distant, all but silent corner of the airfield. This was where suspected bombs were dealt with. Moore,…

“We eventually reached a distant, all but silent corner of the airfield. This was where suspected bombs were dealt with. Moore, whose mother also once worked for LAWA police, pointed my attention down to a number of painted blue grids. These indicated spots where suspicious baggage could be detonated. She then gestured to a massive blue circle surrounding it all, a shape so large I would not even have noticed it. This circle, visible on Google Earth, marked the outer perimeter within which an entire aircraft would be parked during a bomb scare.”

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Inside LAX’s New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit (viaiamdanw)

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