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...conclusions about why the government failed to stop them, the report singles out the U.S.'s sprawling intelligence apparatus for an overhaul, hammering the nation's spooks for their inability to piece together Osama bin Laden's plot--and raising new doubts about whether they are better positioned to detect the next one. Timed for release just before the start of the election season, the report landed amid galloping anxieties among U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies about the imminence of another terrorist attack. U.S. officials say reports from agents and "code talk" picked up from extremists' e-mail point...
What's changed: The government erected air-sniffing sensors in dozens of cities to detect a chemical attack. The feds have committed $5.6 billion over the next decade to encourage drug companies to develop antidotes to bioterrorism attacks...
What hasn't: Border-security agents lack technology and training to detect phony travel documents. Databases tracking entries and exits are not fully automated...
...Botany Bay drops anchor a nautical mile from the Duncan Islands. Coastwatch has called the ACV with an update of the FFV's location. Because radar can't detect small boats, the binoculars are out on the bridge. The FFV is spotted! There's a rush of excitement and purpose as the four officers who make up a boarding party assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into...
...armed foursome farewell Turnagain; the FFV, or another one, is likely to be back here within days - as will an ACV tender crew. In the warm night air, Radon and Normile can detect what they have come to know as the singular odor of an FFV; rancid on the nose, with a strong blood and slime character, offering hints of diesel and clove cigarettes. "They're still out here," Radon says to the others, as the tender rough-rides it back to the ACV. The crew express no animosity toward the elusive Indonesians. "They're not wearing gold chains...