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...BOMB BUSTERS Systems that locate and identify the cargo of vehicles that could be carrying WMD, such as vans, trucks and fuel and water tankers, and can neutralize the threat without exploding the vehicle...
...TOXINS ENTER CELL The entire complex, encased in a bubble, drops into the cell and starts ejecting its lethal cargo...
...with Australia. Prime Minister John Howard said the United Nations should get tough with countries such as Malaysia that allow refugees to use them as a stepping-stone. That comment was sparked by an incident in August in which Australia refused entry to 460 refugees, mainly Afghans, aboard the cargo ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala Lumpur of a variety of measures that might be taken to plug...
...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
...While U.S cargo jets continued to drop food packages and leaflets assuring ordinary Afghans that the bombs' intended targets were terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters, the chief suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon ordered low-flying AC-130 gunships into action in preparation for the deployment of what President George W. Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge...