[JLS]

Does it distort the issue?

It seems that the issue, other than Dim opportunism, is whether or not the US is more likely to be hit via a weapon particularly a WMD weapon either in a container or that comes into the US via a container.

Now can a terminal owned by a Saudi Company receive a container as easily as a group of terminals, ie a port, can receive a container? I don't know the industry, but I would think so.

[muawiyah]

Think back to last year when we detected a ship at sea that had a radioactive load of some kind. It was stopped. Radioactive ceramic tiles were found. Not highly readiactive, but just enough to trigger the system that tells us about such things ~ whatever that system is ~ where ever it is.

Did you ever see a follow up article on how we detected the radiation?

Presumably we use the same techniques with everything, and it doesn't matter whether its in the bottom of the hold, or on the top rack.

[nopardons]

NONE OF THESE COMAPNIES OWN THE TERMINALS; THEY LEASE THEM!

Saudi Arabia and Dubai also send planes to American airports daily. It would be far easier, to arm one or more of these planes, with any number of different kinds of weapons, including dirty bombs, than to have anything funny going on in the container terminals.