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...less publicized crime in New Jersey. Authorities issued a national alert Wednesday morning after they learned that a tractor-trailer carrying what they thought might be hazardous materials had been stolen from Rockland Corp., a distributor of fertilizer and pesticides. Officials were relieved Friday when they found the truck's trailer, which contained 5 tons of lawn fertilizer. Rockland disclosed that the fertilizer in the truck was not the kind rich in ammonium nitrate, which can be used to build bombs...
...disappearance of a truck loaded with chemicals helped confirm fears among many investigators that the next wave of terror could come not from deadly germs but from a simple truck carrying explosives or some other kind of deadly goo. Why fiddle with bacteria when you can simply drive a tanker full of gasoline into a building...
...what if a terrorist commandeered one of the 500,000 yearly shipments of commercial explosives? One hijacking could net enough raw material for multiple bombs--or the truck itself could become a surface-to-surface missile if a kamikaze driver took the wheel. Nothing like that has happened, but the possibility has authorities across the U.S. frazzled. Two weeks ago, a water truck (with a sprinkler that conceivably could spray chemicals) was stolen in Colorado. After a day-long, statewide search, the vehicle turned up. "A couple of yo-yos stole it for fun," says an investigator. But before...
...attacks of Sept. 11 have spurred the trucking industry to improve its lax security. Some technology is already available. A security feature installed in some trucks is a tracking device similar to the transponders used on commercial jets. The device beams a truck's location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors...
...Grubby, Vengeful War" Madeleine Bunting warns of the impending humanitarian disaster. "You can't blow up fuel dumps, as the U.S. has done in Herat and Kabul, without crippling the distribution of aid. You can't bomb a country from high altitude without hitting depots and spreading fear amongst truck drivers and warehouse laborers? Aid is piling up in warehouses but not reaching the hungry stomachs that need it, a problem exacerbated by the fact that thousands have fled the cities for the countryside for fear of the bombs? What the war risks doing is turning a desperate, fragile situation...