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Sears Tower Security Overshadows Threat

CHICAGO-Building management assures tenants and public that it is business as usual despite Thursday's arrest of seven men charged with conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower.

By Dana Dubriwny | Updated on June 23, 2006

CHICAGO-Following Thursday’s arrest of seven men in Miami charged with conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower, Barbara Carley, managing director of the 110-story landmark building, released a statement assuring that business is continuing as usual.

“Our officers are among the most highly skilled of any commercial office building, regularly receiving training from the City of Chicago, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, the Secret Service and the FBI on topics ranging from how to detect people with ill intent, how to spot and react to a suspicious packages and how to respond to a fire until the Chicago Fire Department arrives,” Carley says.

In the years subsequent to 9/11, there have been a number of security threats made on the tower. But building management and security officials, who “regularly speak with the FBI and local law enforcement authorities,” say they have implemented many measures–both visible and behind-the-scenes–to protect the building.

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