Industry Odisha Bureau, May 12: Anticipating terror strikes during the FIFA World Cup all set to kick-start from June 11 this year at multiple venues in the USA, the US administration has reportedly pulled up its socks to ensure the global event passes off peacefully and incident-free given the possibility of terror strikes amid the Gulf conflicts as well as the unfortunate gun-shots bid committed by a dare-devil trespasser from California, now behind the bars during the of late high-profile White House Dinner on April 25.
As per international media reports, the country’s principal law enforcement agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has already woken up to the occasion in March itself when the airstrikes between USA-Israel’s joint forces and Iran’s IRGC were on the peak much before the ongoing fragile ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump.
International media has also reported that the FBI has already “conducted an exercise to train agents called from throughout the country for situations including domestic terrorism during the World Cup”.
One of the FBI agents reportedly revealed to world-renowned English daily The Guardian that they were “alarmed at the scale of the exercise and a lot that needs to be dealt with in terms of threats during the upcoming FIFA World Cup”.
A senior director for counter-terrorism in the US National Security Council has also reportedly stated that “there are a number of threats for which each and every venue has to be protected”.
Apart from the other co-hosts Mexico and Canada, US is reportedly going to host 78 matches across its major cities out of the total 104 matches to be played during the FIFA World Cup 2026.
While the major US cities are reportedly Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, East Rutherford and New Jersey, the final will be played at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
