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Show Cii-v.1 III! )lh HIM!!) i a a a !l,,fUli Mrr.ild uimi. Vunn. 1, lah. lucsdiy September 1 1. 2K UNDER ATTACK: A NATION IN CRISIS Bombing affects MTC ( ,-. i 1 i By ( l IIKKINK IW.AkK i.iietl I'fcs Writer SALT LAKE CITY With the dawning realization realiza-tion that tlic nation has suffered a coordinated attack, Gov. Mike Lcavitt and Utah law enforcement officials Tuesday morning said they were reviewing Olympic security planning and taking other precau-t precau-t ions. Federal employees were being sent home; all air traffic was grounded at Salt Lake International Airport "We have no information that would lead us to conclude con-clude puhlic safety in Utah is at risk. No state government govern-ment installat ions heen closed, nor will they he. Stale government remains open and fully functional," Leavitt said at a 10 a.m. news conference. "This is a sobering reminder that there are evil people in the world who will do outrageous things," he said. Hut be gave was considering consid-ering doing anything hut holding the Olympics as planned. "We have a strategic plan in place and we will continue to strengthen it. Today's event only strengthens that resolve," l.eavitt said. "It does not cast doubt. We will go forward for-ward as planned. We will do all we humanly can to make sure the games are safe." At the Wallace Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, guards were asking employees to display dis-play identification, but the l)uilding had not been closed. Some offices were sending send-ing workers home, however, howev-er, including the National Weather Service and congressional con-gressional staffers. "I'm a little nervous because clearly the government govern-ment is the target. It makes me feel completely at risk," said Alyson Hey rend, U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson's spokeswoman. She was headed into the office to gather files before heading home. Becky Reeves, spokeswoman spokes-woman for AeroWi'st Aviation Avia-tion in St. George, Utah, said that after the FAA ordered the skies cleared, five or six private aircraft and cargo carriers landed at the single-runway airport. air-port. Reeves said the airport is now closed. The moderator of an anti-terrorism conference being held in Salt Lake City said he knew this day was coming. "I didn't know it was going to he this soon," said .John Sullivan at the .Jane's Information Group Facilities Facili-ties Security ('(inference. Like the rest of the nation, he heard of the attacks in the early morning morn-ing in his hotel room. "You can never prevent these acts," he said. The security conference, however, will be teaching law enforcement agents to "deny the opposing force the opportunity to strike." Ernest Lorelli, a 25-year military veteran who now trains police in bomb disposal, dis-posal, said the terrorism appears to be an army-level army-level attack with phenomenal phenome-nal communications and coordination. Given the scope of the attack he said it's unimaginable that it could have happened without with-out the national intelligence intelli-gence community knowing. "The failure in intelligence intelli-gence is phenomenal. How do you defend against something like that?" He said the attack would have far-reaching consequences. "If you identify iden-tify someone who did this God help the nation who is hiding him." Salt Lake City police were in a security planning meeting Tuesday morning, a police spokesman said. Airport police were among those at the planning session. ses-sion. Byron Clark, a retired Air Force officer from Laurel, Lau-rel, Md., heard the news while in town for a convention. conven-tion. "It's horrific," he said. "Our worst fears have been confirmed. It's an act of war." Clark's wife, Tabitha, is on active duty in the Air Force in the Washington, D.C., area. "I'm just trying to make sure all is well : DXNI.l Mllhc l)ail Hcralil On campus: Ty Johnson reacts as she watches the news of terrorist attacks at BYU. with her," he said. Salt Lake International Airport was at a standstill. Only a few flights already en route were allowed to land. Dennis Anderson, airport duty manager, said all other aircraft were grounded. Teams of bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the near-empty near-empty terminal; security was added to the fuel farms to the east and west of the airport. Thousands of passengers passen-gers were turned away as the terminal was being shut down. Among those were 84 Mormon missionaries mission-aries and hundreds of family fam-ily members who had come to bid them goodbye. Lorna Cannon, who works in downtown Salt Lake, said she was worried about her son stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. "I feel violated," she said. "You think of the Oklahoma City bombing as the worst thing possible, and then this happens. I would just like to be with my husband right now. I would like to gather my family around me." By JENNIFER MINMCH The Daily Herald PROVO All missionaries missionar-ies scheduled to leave from the Missionary Training Center today were taken back to the center as all flights nationwide were canceled. can-celed. Terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and at the Fentagon, as airplanes crashed in to these buildings, resulted in the FAA order to cancel all flights nationwide. About300 missionaries were scheduled to leave from the MTC today, but all who had left to go to the airport in Salt Lake City were sent back to Frovo. "All missionaries that were on international flights are being re-routed through Canada if they were already in the air," said Nikki Check-etts, Check-etts, of the church travel department in Salt Lake City. "All missionaries going to MTCs in other countries, their flights were canceled and they have been advised to stay at home until they hear from church travel." No missionaries were known to be traveling on any of the flights involved in the crashes, officials at church headquarters said this morning. Information regarding missionaries in New York and Washington, D.C., was not yet available this morning. morn-ing. The FAA has not yet released information about when flights nationwide will resume, but it is not anticipated antici-pated that new missionaries will arrive Wednesday at the MTC. VI. A Support the future of your community. make a lasting impression on our people with a gift to support literacy Smarter student stronger i immunities that's the- goal of The Daily Herald's Newspapers In education (Nil') program. To prepare si ik lent s li today's evei changing world. 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