Snip: The other significant addition to airport security in the near future would be equipment based on Liquid Screening Technology (LST) which could change the way air passengers pack their handbags.
“Unlike Liquid Explosive Detectors, currently in use in major airports, LST is a non-invasive form of explosive detection,’’ says Mohanan . While using a Liquid Explosive Detector, the suspected liquid item needs to be removed from the bag for inspection. But an LST works on the agnetic resonance imaging principle, and can detect an explosive liquid inside the bag.
The chief Border Patrol agent for the South Texas region drew the line in the sand last week on agents being shot at from the Mexican side of the border. The announcement was an indication of how violent the border has become and of how much is at stake for the United States in the fight to control the Mexican drug cartels.
Ronald Vitiello, Border Patrol sector chief for South Texas, stood shoulder to shoulder with state and local enforcement officials and said that Border Patrol agents patrolling along the Rio Grande will now be armed with fully automatic rifles and be authorized to return fire.
33 Cuban illegal aliens break into Turkey Point nuclear power plant on Thanksgiviing
First we hear a remarkable story about how an ordinary couple makes it past the Secret Service into a State dinner and now word comes out of Florida that 33 illegal aliens from Cuba took a boat right up into a supposedly impenetrable nuclear power plant on Thanksgiving. Both incidents raise questions for the Secret Service and DHS as to just how prepared we are for a terrorist attack and also how secure our national power grid is.
The Miami Herald is today reporting that a boat carrying twenty-nine adults and four children called the control room for the Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant in the early afternoon and advised them they had landed their craft in one of the facilities cooling canals and needed assistance. That it was Turkey Point and happened on Thanksgiving is a curious coincidence but plant security are apparently not amused and neither is DHS. They were caught totally unprepared at one of the nations most "secure" nuclear power generating facilities.
E-Bay suspect made 100s of fake IDs for minors
Roberto Palo Aguilar of San Ramon was allegedly in possession of three fake California driver's licenses when he was arrested by members of a Pleasanton police special enforcement unit, police said. Officers obtained a search warrant for his home and allegedly located computers, printers, a laminator, a card cutter and other items used to produce fake IDs, according to police.
Drug cartels exploiting gang connections within US military
Snips: Law enforcement authorities are concerned the influence of warring Mexican drug cartels may now be penetrating the U.S. military.
Investigators said the suspected gunman at a recent shooting at a popular El Paso nightspot was a Fort Bliss soldier. His two alleged victims, also soldiers on post.