Mr. Stapleton, who heads the company that provides bomb-sniffing dogs, said that before Sept. 11, companies only wanted dogs when they received bomb threats.
"I think a lot of it depends on world events," said Michael Stapleton, president of a New York company that bears his name and provides bomb-sniffing dogs.
"There is certainly anger among people about the economy and fear among corporate executives themselves," said Patrick Timlin, the president of Michael Stapleton Associates, which provides bomb-dog teams.
"People are emotionally scarred by what happened, and employers are willing to do everything necessary to give the employees a feeling of safety," said Michael Stapleton, president of a New York-based company that bears his name and provides bomb-sniffing dogs.
As for providing bomb-making materials, he said: "The church as an organization, no.
The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the Al Qaeda organization".
The US military has been providing bombing raids to support Afghan forces fighting to reclaim control of Kunduz from the Taliban.
As the squadron was preparing to provide bombing support for the Allied invasion of Western Europe, a doctor found that Walter had an irregular heartbeat.
Safavi also accused US and British intelligence services of provoking unrest in south-west Iran and providing bomb materials to Iranian dissidents.
At major airports around the country, stopgap security moves crowd lobbies with giant scanning machines, scores of smaller "trace detectors" and teams of sniffer dogs, all improvised to provide bomb screening of checked baggage by a Dec. 31 deadline.
