Public transportation open to terrorism [CNN]

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

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>                     STUDY: PUBLIC TRANSIT INVITES TERRORISM
>                                        
>      graphic February 20, 1998
>      Web posted at: 6:59 p.m. EST (2359 GMT)
>      
>      WASHINGTON (AP) -- The arrests in Nevada of two men accused of
>      possessing anthrax or its precursor highlight the findings of a
>      recent federal report warning that public buses and trains are
>      vulnerable to terrorist attack.
>      
>      Indeed, an FBI affidavit said that one of the Nevada men had talked
>      about plans to spread bubonic plague toxins in the New York City
>      subway system.
>      
>      "For those determined to kill in quantity and willing to kill
>      indiscriminately, public transportation offers an ideal target," the
>      report said.
>      
>      The report was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation
>      and written last year by terrorism expert Brian Jenkins.

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>      Amy Coggin, a spokeswoman for the American Public Transit
>      Association, the trade group for public transportation authorities,
>      said in an interview: "There are multiple entry points (to transit
>      systems), most of them on a street. There's no way screen everybody
>      who walks down a street. Unless we're going to become a police
>      state, you won't see that thing happening."

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