The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday offered to help China
with security at next year's Olympic Games.
Hundreds of thousands
of athletes, celebrities and state officials, as well as journalists and
tourists, are expected to descend on the country next August for the
Games.
"There are tremendous issues of security as to who is entering the
country, what backgrounds they may have and whether they intend violence
at the Olympic Games for any variety of reasons," Thomas Fuentes, the
assistant director of the FBI's Office of International Operations, told
reporters.
"This is a massive challenge for the authorities here in China to deal
with. We're offering every possible assistance to them in terms of
information sharing or other technical assistance."
Fuentes was speaking in Beijing where he was attending a regular
dialogue with Chinese counterparts to coordinate on law enforcement issues
ranging from cybercrime to human smuggling.
China has made much of
relying on its own security forces for next year's Olympics and believes
it can deliver a secure Games for a fraction of the $1.8 billion that
Athens paid in 2004.
Liu Shaowu, head of the security department at the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), said in April organizers had
taken advice from the security chiefs of the last two Summer Games on how
to keep the 2008 Olympics safe.
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(Reuters)
