Terror Threat Ups Pentagon Security

The Pentagon tightened security and halted public tours after a threat of possible terrorist action, a spokesman said. “We did receive some information through the FBI. Some of it was credible; some of it wasn’t very credible,” said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. He said the decision to make a “one-notch increase” in security was taken because of heightened fears of possible terrorist strikes against U.S. military forces. The concerns are based on the terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996, which claimed the lives of 19 U.S. servicemen.