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...like the rigors endured by each and every bag tagged for Israel?s El Al airline. But most experts agree we should screen every bag that makes it onto an airplane, a task that would require at least 2,000 highly sensitive giant CT-scan machines. Each of these truck-sized x-ray chambers costs a whopping $1.2 million to install, and while the government has pledged $2 billion for the new machines, there are logistics to consider: At peak capacity, each scanner can accurately examine about 150 bags per hour, or 212 million bags per year. Considering that passengers...
SWITZERLAND Inferno Under The Mountain Two trucks crashed head on, starting a fire in the Gotthard Tunnel that killed at least 11 people. Thick black smoke billowed out of the 16-km tunnel as the blaze, fueled by a load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three...
...only after the Gulf War, by which time bin Laden had moved his operations to Sudan (he would later be forced to shift back to Afghanistan), that he started to target Americans. To all but insiders, he first became notorious in 1998, when al-Qaeda operatives exploded truck bombs at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 12 Americans and hundreds of locals. Since then there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks linked to al-Qaeda-some successful, some not-on American targets and those of U.S. allies around the world...
...Afghan driver took me west of Kandahar, where U.S. jets had destroyed a Taliban training facility. The underground bunkers had been unearthed, and the compound's interior was pocked with craters. An old Russian truck was parked along one of the boundary walls; it seemed most military hardware had been removed before the attack...
Yuval H. Grill ’03, who lives in Winthrop’s D entryway, said he was startled to see a HAZMAT truck as he awoke for class in the morning, but added that he is not overly concerned about the anthrax threat...