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Posted on 02/26/2009 1:21:40 AM PST by Cindy
Paper no. 3068
Admiral Sureesh Mehta, the Chief of the Naval Staff sounded a stern warning on 18th February 2009, about the possibility of nuclear weapons being smuggled in to the country through the ever increasing container traffic. The warning was issued at a seminar to discuss Port Development and related security issues.
At one level, there is nothing new in the warning. Similar warnings were issued post 9/11 by US and other maritime analysts who expected the seas to be the next medium for transportation and manifestation of terror. It is this fear that prompted the US to examine the issues related to container security and work on whole range of options to introduce regimes/codes such as the ISPS, CSI, PSI, RMSI, and MSO. All these were aimed at addressing concerns of proliferation and terror from the sea. At another level, the statement by the CNS can only be looked at as a renewed call about the potential ever present dangers at sea, particularly in the wake of recent developments in our neighbourhood with the blurring involvement of both the state and non state actors in perpetrating acts of terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at southasiaanalysis.org ...
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Phew, I was worried it was going to be the Krakken.
How many billions have been spent on national security since 9-11 and still the vast majority of container traffic coming in to this country is still not checked.
How long since 9-11 and the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico is still smoke and mirrors in far too many places.
How many targets for container nukes? Houston, Miami, New York, N.Y. Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Long Beach.
MSNBC.msn.com (AP): Washington - "DHS TO MISS CARGO SCREENING DEADLINE" (SNIPPET: "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.") (updated February 25, 2009)
[Thanks to Oorang for the ping to this article at The Threat Matrix on FreeRepublic.com]
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