Get the right dog to "clamp down" on the virgin seekers.
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| Git along little doggies......sniffin' for paleo splodydopes |
| 2004-08-29 |
| I know Arabs don't like dogs (consider them unclean), so I am especially pleased to see the Israelis using them. I just hope the Israelis also dispatch bomb-sniffing pigs, too, maybe "Pavel's Pork Platoon." After months of bureaucratic delays, a new security plan for public buses across the country is currently underway, including the unprecedented use of bomb-sniffing dogs on Jerusalem City buses to snuff out Palestinian suicide bombers, a senior official in the Internal Security Ministry said Sunday. As part of the bus security plan, sixteen specially trained dogs are being used to safeguard city buses in Jerusalem, with the number of dogs expected to triple in the coming months as the program expands nationwide, said the deputy director general of the internal security ministry, Eliezer Rosenbaum. The dogs, which undergo a five-month training period by the 'Pups for Peace' Organization before being handed over to security officials for use on public buses, include German Shepherds, and Labradors. The dogs are used by security guards to sniff out explosives at bus stops, bus stations, and bus queues. The army and police routinely use bomb-sniffing dogs for their work, but the dogs' deployment to search for bombers on select Jerusalem city bus lines this month was the first time they have been specifically used on public transportation anywhere in the country, security officials said. If proven successful, the number of dogs used in the bus security project could increase even further by next year, Rosenbaum added. The usage of the bomb-sniffing dogs for city buses is part of a nationwide increased bus security plan aimed at preventing Palestinian suicide bombers from blowing up city buses. The $7 million project, which is being sponsored in part by the Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, has provided the more than 900 bus security guards with hand metal detectors to frisk passengers boarding popular city and intra-city bus lines. Nearly all of the bus security guards should be in possession of such metal and explosives detectors by the end of the week, six months after the program was first announced by Internal Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi. Some 1.7 million commuters ride the 5,500 public buses in service nationwide on an average day, making the nations buses one of the primary targets for Palestinian suicide bombers. |
| Posted by:Brett_the_Quarkian |
| #1 Get the right dog to "clamp down" on the virgin seekers. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-29 9:03:11 PM |