Terrorist assaults on schools? Could happen here, book says

The federal government has mapped out a few places that could be targets for a major terrorist attack.

NORAD, in Colorado Springs, Colo., for one.

The West Wing of the White House. Or another New York City landmark.

But the director of an organization that analyzes the country's level of disaster response offers up one more —

Tucson's elementary schools.

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What is it about our local schools that has Redlener, the director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, on alert?

He points to the September 2004 terrorist takeover of an elementary school in Beslan, Russia.

"What we learned from the Beslan experience is that in this age of terrorism, there's no place that's invulnerable to the realities of modern terrorism," he said. "It's got a very long reach and looks to demoralize America as much as possible."

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The question is not if it will happen, but when.

Jeff Davis