Malls Emerge As Another Front In Terror War

“For suburban America, the mall is the gathering place,” said Mitchell Moss of New York University’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response. “It’s much more than just a place to shop. It’s where huge numbers of people gather to go to the movies, eat and socialize — therefore, making it a potential terror target.”

Roosevelt Field, the state’s largest mall, may draw as many as 100,000 people a day at holiday peak one reason Nassau police conducted a training exercise there a year after 9/11, based on the scenario of a plane crashing into the mall’s food court.

The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly warned that malls are potentially attractive targets for terrorists, although officials say there is no credible intelligence of imminent plots.

Source – Newsday.com