NEW YORK -- Some day, at the new and rebuilt World Trade Center site, visitors might submit to an iris scan or an analysis of their thumb print to get into buildings, while smart cameras try to match their faces to a photo database of known terrorists. Well-paid, armed guards would be on patrol while sensors test the air for lethal gases.
Preliminary details of a plan to make the redeveloped 16-acre site as terrorism-proof as possible were provided to The Associated Press this week by former FBI agent James Kallstrom, Gov. George Pataki's senior counterterrorism adviser. Kallstrom and city and federal officials are aiming for a standard of security that doesn't yet exist in public spaces around the nation.
.....
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site and has its own police force, could share responsibility for the site with city police and highly trained, armed security guards.
"These will not be minimum-wage people," Kallstrom said.
.....
Silverstein and the Port Authority have said construction will exceed city building and fire codes, but the agency-owned site has never been legally required to submit to city inspections.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--groundzerosecurit0225feb25,0,3816255.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork