By Mark Ingebretsen, HSO Contributor
When Super Bowl crowds converge on Miami's Land Shark stadium this February 7, they'll be met by an army of law enforcement personnel that's been in place for more than a month. As the Associated Press reported last December, an entire section of the stadium's parking lot contained "armored SWAT vehicles, bomb-handling robots, mobile command posts, explosive-sniffing dogs, even a large X-ray device used by the US Homeland Security Department to screen ocean-going shipping containers." The manpower and gear was intended to guard the Orange Bowl and Pro Bowl games, held at Land Shark in the weeks prior to the Super Bowl. And it was designed to send a not-so-subtle message, the AP says, "anyone, terrorist or otherwise, plotting an attack on any of these high-profile events had better think again."
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