President Obama already stated the Olympics are safe.

This is just more proof of the investigations by agencies to be sure nothing can happen. I am looking forward to the Olympics. The airlines and the NTSB are very familiar with this type of threat. This isn't something new. It is just more precautions.




The only difference about these Olympics and past dangers is that this is Russia.

 To better understand (click here) general patterns of terrorism in Olympic host countries, we use the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to compare the number of terrorist attacks and casualties that happened in the host country during the Olympic Games with the number of terrorist attacks and casualties for the same time period previous year (Figure 1).

Because preparation for the Games and international attention begins long before the official start of the Games, the time periods we evaluate begin six months before opening ceremonies and end on the day of closing ceremonies. We do not assume that all attacks taking place during the “Olympic ” time period are explicitly linked to the Olympics, however one could hypothesize that the same mechanisms that may increase or decrease the likelihood of a terrorist attack in the host city during the Olympics also impact patterns of terrorism at other locations in the country, among all types of perpetrators, and in advance of the Games themselves.

Sochi is not a war zone. It is where people carry out their lives. If one is going to measure previous incidents of violence as a way of determining where the Olympics are going to be held, then the USA should have cancelled the 2002 Olympics.

A statement was made by Former Governor Romney as well. He stated the Olympics are safe, but, there is never an absolute. 

The fact of the matter is, the governments involved in Sochi are doing everything that can be done. Do we stop living because they found a threat within a tube of toothpaste?  

(CNN) -- The United States is advising airlines (click here) with direct flights to Russia to be aware of the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes, according to a law enforcement source.

The source emphasized on Wednesday that there was no known threat to the United States, but the notice to U.S. and international carriers is based on new intelligence information ahead of the start of the Olympics in Sochi this week.

"Out of an abundance of caution, (the Department of Homeland Security) regularly shares relevant information with domestic and international partners, including those associated with international events such as the Sochi Olympics," the agency said in a statement.

Russian transportation officials this week banned liquids in airline carry-on luggage, according to a report from the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

The Obama administration has not indicated it is not safe to travel to the Olympics....