KNOXVILLE - It's the first of it's kind -- a mobile anti-terrorism unit for commercial use. It was developed and built right here in East Tennessee. A partnership between Oak Ridge National Lab and Knoxville technology firm, Cadre-5. The device can be used at sporting events and festivals -- where large groups of people gather. It's called the S.N.A.P.S unit, which stands for Sensor Network Area Protection System. It works using portable sensors and a camera that can be put on a pole, outside the trailer.
Police using the system would set up before an event or festival and monitor the environment, the air and any chemicals that might be in it. The system can detect any change in the air for 10 square miles, whether it's biological chemical, radiologial and explosive. A change will set off alarms inside the trailer. An officer watching screens inside the trailer will be able to assess the threat, view and record the area and figure out how to evacuate the crowd.
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http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=6144463
Terrorism inmates in Indiana
Monday, February 26, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has quietly opened a prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted.
At the Communications Management Unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, all telephone calls and mail are monitored, the number of phone calls is limited and visits are restricted to a total of four hours per month, according to special rules enforced by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. All inmate conversations must be conducted in English unless otherwise negotiated.
The unit appears to be a less restrictive version of the super-maximum facility in Florence, Colo., which holds some of the United States' most notorious terrorists, including al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Theodore Kacszynski.
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I'll see if I can get some more local information for you.
Thanks for the ping!
Wow.... Had to slam on the brakes.
This is being marketed as anti-terror, but I wonder how long it takes before it's turned to some other purpose.
Smoke free cities buying these things to catch smokers, maybe.
My cynicism is showing, I know. I am unwilling to sacrifice freedom for security.
The idea of an electronic canary is amazing, though.
COOL...Thanks Oorang for the info.
Good to know the terrorists' communication is restricted.
Thanks, Oorang.