4 Cities Cut, 4 Added for Terror Grants (AP)

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4 Cities Cut, 4 Added for Terror Grants


Friday January 5, 2007 12:46 AM

By DEVLIN BARRETT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Four U.S. cities will get a fresh infusion of federal anti-terror
grant money, and four others will be dropped from a list of urban areas considered
at serious risk of attacks and eligible to share $747 million.

The list obtained Thursday by The Associated Press shows the four newly eligible
cities are El Paso, Texas; Norfolk, Va.; Providence, R.I.; and Tuscon, Ariz.

Those cities that were cut from the list of 45 metropolitan areas are Toledo, Ohio;
Baton Rouge, La.; Louisville, Ky.; and Omaha, Neb.

The Department of Homeland Security has come under intense scrutiny for its decisions
in the Urban Area Security Initiative, or UASI, which is the only pool of federal money
designed to go to localities purely based on their risk of terror attacks.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6323763,00.html