Posted on 10/11/2004 3:19:56 PM PDT by The Loan Arranger
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- The federal government opened a base Friday where airplanes, helicopters and high-speed boats will set out to intercept terrorists, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants trying to cross the nation's vast northeastern border.
The new Air and Marine Operations facility, formerly an Air Force base in New York's northeastern corner, is one of five that will be responsible for tightening surveillance along the U.S.-Canadian border and will cover a heavily wooded stretch from western New York to Maine.
Department of Homeland Security helicopter pilot Dennis Del Grosso said agents are looking for anything, from low-flying planes trying to skirt radar to drug runners riding snowmobiles.
"Vehicles, boats and airplanes that carry drugs or illegal immigrants can just as easily carry terrorists or weapons of mass destruction," said Charles E. Stallworth II, director of Air and Marine Operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yah, Bush hasn't done the things necessary to protect us from terrorists ...
oh, and, uh, terrorists are just nuisances ... and ... uh...
My name is John Kerry, and I'm a turd
BUMP for good reading. Thank you Loan Arranger for this one.
I'm glad to see others had similar ideas!
I'm not impressed
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