The scene had nothing to do with what was taking place a few hundred meters away, where, despite the chaos and lack of security, organized protests were being held to demand basic services and electricity.
The sweep came a day after the government replaced seven senior police officials — including the chiefs of special forces, internal security, organized crime and the explosives unit — to ensure the investigation would take place with "absolute objectivity".
"Anyone who can go through the training and pass the new tests is clearly qualified for the job, whatever their educational level," said Jono Schaffer, director of security organizing for the Service Employees International Union, which represents screeners in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
But Mr. Mineta, speaking to a conference on homeland security organized by Aviation Week magazine, said there were simply too few machines to scan all the bags, too few people to conduct hand searches, and too few sniffer dogs.
A half-century later, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, painfully revealed a post-cold-war world menaced by new threats, and the Bush administration moved quickly to articulate a new vision of national security organized around pre-emption, coalitions of the willing, and the unfettered use of American military power.
Mr. Chalabi and his security staff organized a raid on the university.
"This gives us financial security for organizing and for strikes when we have thousands of members in the street.
The Marshals Service has ordered deputies to be available in Wichita under a plan to augment security arrangements organized by the local police, said Mindy Tucker, the Justice Department's spokeswoman.
Mr. Sharon's tour was meant to assert Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, but the vast security operation organized for the visit suggested that he had anything but free access to the compound, which is effectively run by Islamic officials.
The Kyiv Security Forum is an annual European security conference organized by the Open Ukraine Foundation and set up by Yatsenyuk himself in 2007.
