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NEW YORK (AP) — In a burghal annoyed by its deadliest agitator advance back 9/11, badge are able an aberrant aegis accomplishment to try to defended a bendable ambition spanning bristles boroughs and 26.2 miles: the New York Burghal Marathon.
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City admiral accept approved to calm the fretfulness of added than 50,000 runners and huge crowds of assemblage accepted to band the chase avenue by insisting it will go off Sunday afterwards a block alone canicule afterwards a barter advance dead eight bodies in lower Manhattan.
The aegis detail will accommodate hundreds of added uniformed convoying and plainclothes officers, ambulant teams of counterterrorism commandos armed with abundant weapons, bomb-sniffing dogs and rooftop snipers assertive to shoot if a blackmail emerges.
The Badge Administration is additionally axis to a tactic it has acclimated to assure Trump Tower and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: 16-ton sanitation trucks abounding with sand. The trucks, forth with "blocker cars," will be positioned at key intersections to try and anticipate anyone from active assimilate the course.
Marathoners from about the apple who accept been alive into the burghal in apprehension of the chase bidding alloyed animosity about active so anon afterwards the carnage.
"I can be absolutely afraid of it back I am at home and in advanced of the TV," Annemerel de Jongh, 28, of The Hague, Netherlands, said Thursday as she best up her chase cardinal at a Manhattan assemblage center. "But back I am active I feel maybe a little bit invincible, like annihilation can appear to me. I can run abroad from it."
The New York Badge Administration said it has no advice pointing to any aboveboard blackmail adjoin the race.
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There is no question, though, that the advance provides a aegis challenge, alike for a badge administration with 35,000 officers.
The chase starts in a about defended location. Runners accumulate at Staten Island's Fort Wadsworth, a above aggressive accession now partially active by the U.S. Coast Guard.
From there, though, the chase active through residential neighborhoods with hundreds of spots area an antagonist could beacon a agent assimilate the thickly arranged course. Streets arch to the advance are closed, but on abounding of them, in best years, the alone barrier is a blue, board sawhorse and a attenuate artificial tape.
The army is so big, runners alpha in waves, acceptation some bodies will still be continuing on the starting band while competitors in the wheelchair analysis are bridge the finish.
"It will be an amazing event, as it consistently is," Mayor Bill de Blasio said this anniversary at a account conference. "It will be able-bodied protected, as it consistently is."
Police said they'll use added of the acquaintance cartage for the chase than they've anytime acclimated for any added event.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the accompaniment police, the National Guard, the accompaniment Office of Emergency Management and added agencies will accommodate added security. Cuomo, a Democrat, said the accompaniment badge will bifold the cardinal of troopers acquaint at high-profile locations, including Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.
The advance Tuesday, on a bike aisle afar from the chase route, was a austere admonition of how the Islamic Accompaniment accumulation is application its advertising to animate radicalized "lone wolves" to account abuse with artless agency in calmly attainable settings.
The advance by an declared Islamic Accompaniment accumulation adherent "appears to accept followed, about absolutely to a T, the instructions ISIS has put out in its amusing media channels," said the NYPD's top counterterrorism official, John Miller.
An online Islamic Accompaniment accumulation annual acquaint aftermost year acclaimed application trucks to annihilate innocent victims, saying, "Vehicles are like knives, as they are acutely accessible to acquire." It additionally brash "surveying the avenue for obstacles, such as posts, signs, barriers, humps, bus stops, dumpsters, etc. which is important for sidewalk-mounted attacks."
Investigators say there's affirmation the suspect, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, did assay afore active a Home Depot rental barter through an bare access to a bike aisle in lower Manhattan and mowing bottomward cyclists and pedestrians. A badge administrator attempt and blood-soaked Saipov afore he was arrested and answerable with acknowledging agitation and added federal counts.
The about-face abroad from adult all-embracing attacks like the one on the Apple Trade Center's accompanying building on Sept. 11, 2001, to abate ones on bendable targets has affected law administration to become added accomplished at how to anticipate and acknowledge to terrorism, said Karen Greenberg, administrator of Fordham Law School's Centermost on National Security.
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"I don't anticipate bodies should be worried," Greenberg said. "The badge apperceive what they are doing. Look at how few acknowledged attacks there accept been."
Safety adjustments fabricated by organizers of the New York Burghal Chase afterward the bombing of the Boston Chase in 2013 — like banning backpacks and apparel — abide in place, said Chris Weiller, agent for New York Road Runners. Despite boundless account letters and images of the aisle of bodies larboard by the barter attack, the abandoning amount has remained about the same, he said.
Boston Chase organizers, alive with local, accompaniment and federal law enforcement, additionally decidedly added aegis forth the advance afterwards the 2013 attack, including added admiral deployed on chase day, a no-fly area over the advance and drones to advice with surveillance.
New York Chase aspirant Kris Ledegen, 49, of Herdersem, Belgium, said he never advised absence the race. One of the women dead in Tuesday's advance was from Belgium. The country was additionally the arena of an attempted car advance this year in Antwerp.
"It happened here, and it happened in Belgium as able-bodied already," Ledegen said. "So it can appear anywhere."
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Associated Press biographer Rebecca Gibian contributed to this report.
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