Wednesday, November 24, 2010

U.S. Homeland Security Color-Coded Terror Alerts To Be Scrapped

U.S. May Scrap Airport Color-Coded Terror Alerts -- Bloomberg

The U.S. Homeland Security Department may abandon its eight-year-old system of assigning colors to terrorist threat levels that has been criticized by U.S. lawmakers and lampooned on “Saturday Night Live.”

The agency, which created the system following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hasn’t changed the threat color since 2006. The senior administration official who spoke about the prospective change today declined to be identified because the decision isn’t final.

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More News On Homeland Security Scraping Airport Color-Coded Terror Alerts

Color-coded terror alerts may end -- Yahoo News/AP
US may scrap colour-coded terror alerts -- BBC
U.S. Might Drop Color-Coded Terror Alert System -- Global Security Newswire
Scrap coloured terrorism alerts: Homeland Security -- CBC News
Color-coded terror alerts may end -- Macon.com/AP
Should the Color Code Terror Warning System Be Eliminated? -- ABC News

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