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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
CNN is reporting on that now. It seems they removed the old metal barrier system in preparation to replace them with retractable barriers.
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I'm not blaming them but I heard it was due to measures the NFL requested for the Super Bowl... can confirm their requirements are quite weird, imperious, and often make next to no sense to anyone on the ground level. I have no idea how you prevent a motivated attack like this on large crowds, am quite certain venue security has no way to prevent one outside of pushing people in faster or closing a specific entrance and pushing incoming lines to slightly different places if god forbid one ever happened at a place like BoA in Charlotte at the bowl game tomorrow or any Panthers game, but am quite certain CMPD and Homeland Security were not 100% thrilled with the NFL rep's input on the conference call.
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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Very minor sidenote here ... what does it say that the Daily Mail actually had the most coherent comprehensive compilation of details of anything I've seen so far?
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I've always figured it was tied to the American ones going heavy & fast with their paywalls, would be curious to hear an explanation why the DM/Guardian haven't. Not sure if just cultural or there is some legal reason UK based ones haven't followed that path as aggressively.
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Originally Posted by Young Drachma
Also clearly some kind of convert to Islam, they should find out what his pre-convert name was, even if it was long ago...it's not like this was his birth name.
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Not sure on any conversion or lean into that part which the ex-wife's husband implied happened recently, but does at least seem like Jabbar was his birth name. The 10 days in Egypt last year might end up being relevant too.