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Safety First
s a man
who prac-
ticed the
1950s nuclear bomb
"duck and cover"
school exercises as
recently as
Thursday, I am
always preemptively Harry Kirsbaum
Columnist
fearful.
When Style, the
magazine celebrated its 20th anniver-
sary last summer in the Somerset
Collection atrium in Troy during mall
hours, I spent most of my time glanc-
ing towards the second floor, looking
for snipers who may appear from
Restoration Hardware.
During this year's press day at the
North American International Auto
Show in Detroit, I spent the first 45
minutes following a bomb-sniffing dog
through the exhibits at Cobo Center
because Spot could spot trouble quick-
er.
Working in this business and read-
ing Robert Ludlum novels can have
that kind of effect.
So it should be no surprise that in
light of Super Bowl XL happening next
door, I contacted a security expert to
give me some comfort, or at least an
idea of how far I should travel to get to
safety on Super Bowl Sunday.
Henry Morgenstern is president of
Security Solutions International (SSI),
a Miami-based private Israeli security
company that has trained more than
300 U.S. Homeland Security govern-
ment agencies in Israeli counter-terror-
ism measures, from suicide bombing
awareness to tactical training for SWAT
and special response teams.
In general, we are not up to speed in
terms of security compared to Israel,
he said, but we are dOing everything
right in downtown Detroit during
Super Bowl week.
He said SSI has been involved in
security for this year's Super Bowl and
was involved in the Super Bowl last
year in Jacksonville, Fla., but he can't go
into detail.
A security plan 18 months in the
making and a force of 10,000 "is way
good enough': Morgenstern said.
"That kind of force in numbers
doesn't exist in Israel': he said during a
phone conversation. "With all due
respect to the Super Bowl, it's not a
country of 5 million people.
.
"The question is how are they going
to be deployed, what kind of perime-
ter security is going to be established?
These are the kinds of things that are
going to render the force on the
ground as effective or ineffective."
There are large preparations for any
large sporting events, he said.
Morgenstern was in Israel last July
during the Maccabiah Games, the
largest sporting event in Israel.
"We met with the head of security of
the Ministry of Tourism and saw how
they prepared themselves four years in
advance': he said.
Four years.
"Everything involved — every hotel,
every transportation company — has
to have a security file, and all of these
places have to meet criteria set by the
security agencies': Morgenstern said.
They used the perimeter approach
for the Games."You'd be checked
streets away, and further on there
would be intelligence watching the
streets approaching the stadium to
look for any suspicious signs;'
Morgenstern said.
"Because you can do as much dam-
age with an IED (improvised explosive
device) in the street. Everybody's
swarming towards the stadium. You
can take out a lot of people like that
and cause some chaos."
Similar precautions will take place in
Detroit all this week, with security
beginning blocks away, and a security
perimeter fence 300 feet around Ford
Field according to the Detroit News.
"This way, you're catching problems
in a big dispersal pattern, rather than
next to a center where it's ground zero,
and everyone is walking through the
stadium': Morgenstern said.
"If half the stadium is full and some-
thing happens outside and it's loud
enough and ugly enough, the panic in
the stadium will kill more people in the
stadium than the people outside."
Morgenstern thinks this way out of
necessity. I think this way out of habit.
As satisfied as he is with the security
situation at Ford Field — 21.55 miles
away from my house according to
Mapquest — I'll be watching the
Pittsburgh Steelers play the Seattle
Seahawks in Super Bowl XL from
under my desk.
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