Worthington man gets 20 years in terrorist plot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194730/posts
Carrying a ''Fisher Island Chief of Police'' badge and claiming he was a U.S. air marshal, Mark Rimkufski convinced Miami airline employees to allow him on a flight after the gate had closed, police said. The ruse landed him in jail, Miami-Dade police said, when he was confronted -- by real air marshals on the plane. Rimkufski, 49, was later charged with falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer. He was scheduled to appear in Miami-Dade court Thursday but did not because he was hospitalized for unspecified reasons. There is no Fisher Island police department.
Rimkufski, a former island resident who also goes by the name Harry Henry Rimm, also faces a federal charge of impersonating an air marshal. When arrested, he was carrying nearly $14,000 in cash and had plans to travel to Los Angeles, Hawaii and Dubai.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/922872.html
DHS to miss cargo screening deadline
2/25/09
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency cannot meet its 2012 deadline for radiological and nuclear screening of all cargos coming into the United States.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29386327
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