Rudy Giuliani warned that the major party national conventions are obvious terrorist targets during a stop in Charlotte on Tuesday.

The former New York mayor, who’s contemplating another presidential run in 2012 and who has made national security a focus of his speeches for years, made the remarks as he spoke to a police foundation luncheon in the city that will host the Democratic National Convention next year.

According to WSCOTV.com, Giuliani said, “You want everyone to leave your city enjoying it, because the benefit to your city is people wanting to come back.”

But he also raised the specter of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, and the logistical and security factors involved, given that the city had endured the 9/11 terror attacks just three years earlier.

“The conventions will always be targets,” he said. “They always are. Not only because of the presence of the president and presidential candidates, but the presence of so many significant people. It’s just a place for terrorists and would-be terrorists to make a statement.”

(Source: Politico)