William J. Bratton
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Chief William J. Bratton of the Los Angeles Police Department said that he had been aware of threats to the skyscraper since he took over as chief in 2002. He said he had devoted significant counterterrorism resources to the building and to Los Angeles International Airport, another potential target because Al Qaeda is known to carefully research its targets and to try to strike more than once, as it did at the World Trade Center. He said he was working with federal and local law enforcement officials on a program, Operation Archangel, to identify critical sites around the country that might be targeted for terrorist attacks and to design methods to defend them.