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...months, federal security officials have been warning of possible threats from aircraft flying into the U.S. from overseas. On Feb. 2 a potential danger became a frightening reality: three men were able to bypass screening in a foreign country and get onboard a cargo aircraft that flew into one of the U.S.'s largest airports, Miami International. It was a chilling echo of an incident last year where a man was able to ship himself in a box on a cargo flight within the U.S. "This is more disturbing evidence that without actual inspection of cargo, our security system will...
...According to two aviation sources, the men were able to get inside a container on a Boeing 727 cargo aircraft flown from the Dominican Republic to Miami under contract for DHL Airways. DHL did not return messages seeking comment. More troubling is that at least one of the men had an employee identification card of a company that allowed him access to the secure area of a foreign airport. "Inside jobs are the soft underbelly of the system," says one aviation security expert...
...revelation comes at a terrible time for the Transportation Security Administration, the main agency responsible for making the skies secure. The agency has come under fire for failing to issue security rules for the cargo industry, as it was supposed to have done by the end of last year. This week, the TSA is expected to face harsh criticism from members of Congress at hearings on Capitol Hill on that and other issues. Congressmen are expected to charge the TSA with not adequately funding baggage screening systems at some major airports in the U.S. and a mismanagement of tens...
...jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from 33 in 2001 to 64 in 2002 and 71 last year. But many prosecutions have been overzealous. In September 2002, 15 Pakistanis were arrested off the southern coast in a rusting cargo ship, charged with international terrorism and held in a local jail for more than nine months - before being released. In a notorious case last fall, an imam from Senegal who lived near Turin with his Italian wife and children was expelled as a "threat to state security" after he made...
...over how to keep these flights safe has not. After a meeting in Europe last week, the U.S. failed to get European airlines to agree to put armed air marshals on high-risk flights. Some said they would rather ground the flights than see guns in the air. Foreign cargo airlines are also chafing under a new U.S. requirement that they provide information 24 hours before departure about anyone on the plane, including couriers, animal handlers and others who often accompany cargo. It's a measure that is almost unworkable, said a foreign-airline expert, because the industry relies...