NEW YORK (June 7, 2006) Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad W. Allen gives answers questions from the media after giving a speech at the U.S. Naval Institute's Homeland Port Security Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Lower Manhattan, June 7, 2006. The conference will present a group of panelists with simulations of terrorist attacks against ports along the East Coast. U.S. Coast Guard photo by PO Mike Lutz