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Information. we want to examine the question of safety in the upcoming olympic games. national security analyst fran town accepted talks about this via skype ca in new york. let s talk first about volgograd, about 620 miles from sochi where the olympics will be held. that s a distance from say atlanta to miami basically. but it is a major rail hub and a lot of people will be traveling from all parts of russia to get to the olympics. they re going to have to go through that city. so how do they even manage? where do they begin to try to protect people in the olympics? well, what you do, you start with the event sites and the olympic village and you work your way out. you look at critical nodes and look, what we know about these groups is that they target transportation nodes. you saw the trolley this morning, the subway station the day before. the bus in october. and so you understand that transportation is a real vulnerability. not only certainly athletes are most vulnerable when mov ....

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