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April 20 (Bloomberg)--a new terrorism alert system will be held next week in the opinion of colours which were used by the United States for the past eight years, said today the Secretary of security inland Janet Napolitano.En under the new terrorism Advisory National Systemsays Napolitano which will begin April 26, the Homeland Security Department will coordinate with other federal entities to issue alerts. Media advisories will categorize threats that "high", indicating a "credible" against the United States and "imminent" terrorist threat a threat warning "credible, specific and imminent".Alerts can be sent to the application of the Act, distributed in areas of the private sector which may be affected or issued more widely to the public via Facebook and Twitter website of the Ministry. Media advisories will be issued for a specific period and will automatically expire in two weeks, although they can be extended if a threat is evolving or new information becomes available. "" It is a threat evolving domestic and international terrorist activity ", Napolitano said at a press conference at Grand Central Terminal in New York today. "These alerts are designed to where there is specific credible information where people have factual content need to know what to do, how they protect their family and how they can help us to protect their communities."CriticizedNapolitano of color Code announced in January that the United States had decided to abandon the color guide code of terror-alert adopted by the administration of President George w. Bush, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.Le color code has been criticized by lawmakerssecurity analysts and travellers as being too vague, and courses had moque on comedy shows such as "Saturday Night Live." New York representatives Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat and Peter King, a Republican who chairs the Committee of security inner House, said at the Conference of press today that the new system is an upgrade. "New York has always been terrorist target no. 1, I always felt that we were under red or orange alert,"said Maloney." "This new program say New York and the us that they want to know, when they need to know it and replaces the current system of color, which many people had settled fundamentally out because he has never really ended and you did not really know what that meant."Alert FluctuatedDuring the eight years, that the system has been implementing, alerts have fluctuated yellow for "high" and orange for "high, reaching red for"severe"once, August 10, 2006." Green or blue, symbols representing the lowest threat levels, had never been used.In this case, the alert has been applied to flights coming from the United Kingdom after that the discovery of what the officials was a Wells-plan suggesting that al-Qaeda has been traced to use liquid explosives and detonators disguised as electronic devices to blow up planes in the air of advanced. "Our goal is to maximize our ability to detect prevent them and deter terrorism and to minimize the likelihood that they will be successful," Napolitano said. "" " Even given that we must be very fair and say that there is no guarantee here. We cannot put America under a glass dome and to avoid any damage but we can minimize risk and maximize the information available to us. ?-With the help of Jeff Bliss in Washington. Editors: Glenn Holdcraft, Andrew Dunn
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