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Trump Properties Face Global Terror Risk with Presidency
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emir-
ates— Businesses around the
world bearing U.S. President
Donald Trump’s name face an
increased risk now that he is
in the White House, security
experts warn, especially as
several are in areas previously
targeted by violence.
As Trump remains a brand
overseas, criminal gangs or
militants could target build-
ings bearing his name in gold,
abduct workers associated
with his enterprises for ran-
som or worse, they say.
“
U.S. brands have been target-
ed in overseas violence before,
but they never belonged to a
president.
That’s the diff erence. Trump
becoming America’s 45th
president presents a unique
challenge given the range of
his international business in-
terests.
Asked about security issues,
the Trump Organization said
in a statement it has “exten-
sive protocols in place at our
Trump-owned and -managed
properties” in the United
States and abroad.
“Our team continues to work
very closely with local law en-
‘They may kidnap a Trump worker
and not even want to negotiate’
“They may kidnap a Trump
worker and not even want to
negotiate,” aiming for publici-
ty instead, said Colin P. Clarke,
a political scientist with the
RAND Corporation who stud-
ies terrorism and internation-
al criminal networks.
Predicting an attack keeps
police, intelligence agencies
and security experts awake at
night around the world — and,
by its very nature, it remains
speculative.
forcement,” the statement said.
“We are also working in tan-
dem with the local developers
at Trump-branded properties
worldwide to ensure that all
residents, guests and associ-
ates remain safe and secure.”
The organization did not elab-
orate.
While Trump has said he
will put his business assets
in a trust and hand over man-
agement control of his compa-
ny to his two adult sons and a
AP PHOTO/EMRAH GUREL
Security experts worry criminal gangs or militants could target buildings bearing Trump’s name
In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 photo, Trump Towers, center, are pictured in Istanbul.
Security experts warn that businesses around the world bearing U.S. President
Donald Trump’s name face an increased risk now that the businessman is in the
White House.
longtime Trump Organization
executive, it’s still his name on
the projects.
That hasn’t worried Kim
Ok Kyu, who lives in a
Trump-branded
apartment
tower in Seoul, South Korea.
She said security at her build-
ing is quite good, with many
guards and strict restrictions
on outsiders entering the
building
“Terror? I don’t think about
it. I just hope my home prices
go up,” Kim said.
But other properties are in
areas that have seen violence,
like Trump Towers Istanbul,
the Turkish city hit hard by a
string of bomb and gun attacks
carried out by the Islamic State
group.
Flags and banners around
the site bear the president’s
name, while private security
guards man X-ray machines
and metal detectors at its en-
trances, a standard practice in
the city.
In Bali, where bombs planted
by the Islamic extremist group
Jemaah Islamiyah targeting
bar-goers killed 202 people in
2002, Trump’s organization
has licensed the president’s
name to a planned luxury re-
sort. Bali police spokesman
Hengky Widjaja said no one
had requested extra security
for the property and author-
ities had no plans to increase
their presence there.
A Trump-named residential
tower is under construction
in the Indian city of Mumbai,
which was hit by a 2008 terror
attack blamed on the Pakistani
militant group Lashkar-e-Tai-
ba that killed 166 people. Mum-
bai police spokesman Ashok
Dudhe said he had no knowl-
edge of any additional security
around the tower.
Another tower is being built
in Manila in the Philippines, a
nation where Abu Sayyaf mili-
tants conduct frequent kidnap-
pings for ransom and where
President Rodrigo Duterte
wages a brutal crackdown on
drug dealers that has killed
thousands. Philippine police
say they haven’t monitored any
specifi c threat toward Trump
properties, though a tower
rising in Manila sits in an area
under an intensifi ed security
watch aft er Duterte declared
a “state of lawlessness” follow-
ing a September bombing.
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