August 12, 2003
Ferries: Targets for Terror? "Large
"Large passenger ferries pose the greatest terrorist risk in maritime transportation, because they confine several thousand people in one space far from land and have little or no passenger screening."
People seem really surprised by this. They call it an eye-opener. After all the warnings we've heard over the last two years (almost), how is this a surprise? We've been told that just about everything is at risk of something. Just last week "they" told us to be on the lookout for umbrellas of death (you know, the ones with the pullout knife blade). This is not surprising. What surprises me is that this story did have a quote in there of someone saying, "Hey, what'cha gonna do? If something happens, something happens. Nothing you can do about it." That seems to be the prevailing attitude in these parts these days.
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posted by at August 12, 2003 12:10 AM
