Security measures pass their first test
Ian Chadband13 April 2012
OLYMPIC chiefs in Salt Lake City today declared their confidence in the security blanket designed to protect President Bush and 55,000 spectators at tonight's Winter Olympics opening ceremony - despite concerns over an eve-of-Games bomb scare.
Police, who blew up a suspicious package here yesterday only to find it was harmless, fear that it might have been planted deliberately to test the efficiency of the Games security operation.
A plastic bag with what looked like fuses and electrical wires inside was discovered by construction workers next to a car park.
Within minutes FBI agents were on the scene and bomb technicians destroyed the device.
Officials said the incident proved how efficiently the Olympic security plan, devised in the wake of the 11 September atrocities, is working.
