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...year ago. In January, Bush said the three states were "seeking weapons of mass destruction" and posed a "grave and growing danger." On last week's evidence, he's right. Within a few days, the following things happened: Spanish and American forces detained and then released a cargo of North Korean Scud missiles hidden in a stateless vessel bound for Yemen. The shipment was legal, but given the tinderbox nature of Yemeni society, irresponsible. Then Pyongyang announced that it intended to restart work on nuclear reactors that had been closed down since a crisis with the U.S. in 1994; spent...
...legal traders--some 300 tons per year. The temptations are great in a region where economic opportunities are scarce. A single suitcase filled with caviar, exported via courier, can net more than $100,000. In a typical bust, smugglers in Astrakhan managed to load a Russian air force cargo plane with 770 lbs. of sturgeon roe before it was seized by the Federal Security Service...
...wider variety of radioactive emissions than the pagers, from weapons-grade plutonium to medical waste that could be used as shrapnel in a "dirty bomb." And unlike the pagers, which only check containers singled out for inspection, the new portal devices will be routinely applied to all cargo, not just the high-risk kind. Customs is installing the devices at the exit gates of the nation's major seaports and at key traffic choke points, such as international bridges, tunnels, rail crossings and U.S. Postal and private parcel-shipping facilities. One prototype has already been deployed at a busy commercial...
...nationality and papers not being in order, a false manifest and the vessel's refusal to submit to inspection - that allowed the Spanish navy, acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, to seize it in international waters in the Arabian sea. Those irregularities, and the fact that its unlisted cargo of 15 SCUD missiles bound for Yemen was hidden under thousands of bags of cement certainly conveys an air of contraband, but Yemen immediately insisted that it had purchased the missiles in an above-board transaction with North Korea, and that such a transaction violated no laws. Washington decided to hand...
...Many questions remain unanswered about the So San and its cargo. But clearly, the seizure of the weapons could be categorized as a relatively peaceful act of "counter-proliferation," an integral part of the Bush administration's new national security doctrine of preempting threats. And like the war on terrorism, that's a game whose rules are being formulated in real time...