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...breaches. Despite much-touted mail disinfection, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of anthrax in late November; despite increased security since Sept. 11, airports have allowed people with sharp implements and potential weapons board airplanes. At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, passengers managed to bring cleavers, stun guns and tear gas past security checkpoints; at Logan, a checkpoint was left unmanned while an employee took a break...
...Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters?whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty...
Just when Americans were starting to calm down about air travel, Subash Gurung decided to fly from Chicago to Omaha, Neb. The jobless Nepalese man, here on an expired visa, got through security at O'Hare airport last week with five knives, a stun gun and a container marked TEAR GAS/PEPPER SPRAY. After a search at the gate uncovered the weapons, Gurung was arrested but soon released on bond. He was taken into custody only when he returned to O'Hare to pick up another bag, filled with more knives. And in the story's grim punch line...
...will be required on certain flights deemed "high risk." Pilots and crew will attend training courses on how to deal with hijackers, and the Transportation Department can authorize the use of weapons in cockpits. (United Airlines is ahead of the curve on that count; this week the company made stun guns available to its pilots...
...Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty...