Boston airport head of security 'will be removed'

The head of security at Boston’s Logan Airport is being ousted, three weeks after terrorists crashed two planes hijacked from the airport into the World Trade Centre, an official in the Massachusetts governor’s office said.

Joseph Lawless had handled security for then-Governor William Weld when he was appointed in 1993 as the head of public safety at the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan, the Port of Boston and several regional airports.