Security: 'Anything Is a Target'; Planners are spending almost a billion dollars to keep the athletes--and all of Athens--safe during the Games.

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Byline: T. Trent Gegax, With Toula Vlahou in Athens

Until last week's Madrid bombings, Greece was a country where cell phones and large umbrellas were casually passed around metal detectors at high government offices. Athenians, confident they weren't terror targets, cried "Big Brother" at every turn of the Olympic security screw. Now, even they fear that Madrid just might be spring training for terrorists intent on hitting the Games in August. "Unfortunately, we live in a radically different reality from the...

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