Windows handheld device fights wars on terror, drugs
"It can't tell you if there is a bomb on the kitchen table, but it can tell you if someone built a bomb on that kitchen table," he said.
That's useful as terrorists and insurgents continue to learn to bypass conventional threat detectors. For instance, explosives used in the 2005 London bombings carried out by Islamic terrorist groups used "chemicals that produced no vapor" so that neither "sniffer device nor dog" could detect them, Clift said.
Home Depot seeks to delay cargo security measure
Atlanta-based Home Depot and fellow "big box" chain stores have targeted donations to key lawmakers and stepped up lobbying efforts amid industry resistance to a law mandating 100 percent security scanning for imported cargo.
The new measure - recommended by the commission that examined the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - requires that every cargo container be scanned for radiation or nuclear hazards before being shipped to the United States.
Business groups, who argue that importers are doing enough to improve cargo security already, are seeking to delay its implementation, which is slated for July of 2012.
"It is not a smart way to conduct cargo security" by checking every container, said Jason Conley, homeland security policy chief for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Foreign seaports would have to buy costly scanning equipment and America's trading partners could retaliate against U.S. exports, he said.
At the retail giants, including Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy and Circuit City, corporate political action committees have focused campaign dollars on Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, a study of campaign filings by Congressional Quarterly found.
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Pilots stabbed in attack on New Zealand plane
Reuters ^ | Feb 7, 2008 | Adrian Bathgate
Posted on 02/07/2008 5:43:37 PM PST by RDTF
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A woman passenger on a New Zealand commuter plane stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the 19-seat aircraft, police said on Friday. The attack on the pilots, who were not seriously hurt, happened about 20 minutes into the flight between the South Island centers of Blenheim and Christchurch, police said.
The plane landed at Christchurch, where police with dogs boarded it and arrested a 33-year-old woman, who is originally from Somalia.
The woman was in police custody in Christchurch but the motive for the attack was still unclear, Canterbury District Commander Superintendent Dave Cliff told Reuters.
“Once the full statements are taken from the pilots and the witnesses we’ll be able to get a full picture of what happened, but at the moment we’re going through the process,” Cliff said.
The plane was left on the runway while a bomb squad was called in, but no bomb was found on board, Cliff said.
The two pilots were taken to Christchurch hospital but their wounds were not life-threatening. One passenger and the woman were treated for minor cuts.
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