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Home Front: WoT
US maritime leaders see little risk in UAE port deal
2006-03-06
Posted by:lotp

#5  The trucks carrying the same cargo containers passing the Mexico/US Otay Mesa border are all required to go through a full size xray machine - it penetrates the steel just fine
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-06 12:07  

#4  "Only the paramoid politicians perceive problems."

Those fools! They're just paranoid wimps. There is no rational reason to suspect the UAE port deal. The 911 UAE terrorists are dead.
Posted by: Hank   2006-03-06 11:58  

#3  Those cargo containers are made of steel.
Steel does not pass x-rays well, either you'd need a hell of an x-ray machine (With the resulting contamination of some cargos, film comes to mind) or you need some other inspection device than an x-ray.

Bad idea folks, think up another.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-03-06 10:45  

#2  Only the paramoid politicians perceive problems.

Which the sky-is-falling media exploits.
Posted by: Bobby   2006-03-06 06:58  

#1  Are these guys telling America our nation can't find one or two Mad Geniuses to convert a rolling tracked/railed container lifter into a rolling MRI Container Imaging/XRay System or related. * His Name is "NOT FRANKENSTEEEEN, ITS FRANKENSTEIN", D*** YOU!!!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-06 00:22  

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