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To: appalachian_dweller

Missed first 2 paragraphs of above story.


The Homeland Security Department arrested 57 illegal immigrants last month working at airports and other risk-sensitive facilities around the country, underscoring concerns that lax employment background checks are leaving a security breach for terrorists to exploit.

In one example, a Peruvian was hired as an airplane mechanic in Greensboro, N.C., using a fake Social Security card he bought for $70 on a soccer field, according to court documents. In another, a Florida power plant was alerted to a Mexican working at its nuclear facility only after being tipped off by labor union employees, company officials said.


4,107 posted on 04/13/2005 12:18:25 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Until the borders are closed there is NO security. Get Prepared. Stay Prepared.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Worry too they will help smuggle this:

U.S. Tracking Dangerous Flu Strain Sent to Labs
19 minutes ago
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/fc/health/influenza/latest_developments/story_more/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20050413/ts_nm/health_flu_dc_10

From WHO:
International response to the distribution of a H2N2 influenza virus for laboratory testing: Risk considered low for laboratory workers and the public*
12 April 2005
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/h2n2_2005_04_12/en/

Killer flu: Could the world cope?

It is only a matter of time before a major outbreak of potentially deadly flu, according to scientists. Could the world cope?

There have been three flu pandemics during the past 100 years.

The Asian flu of 1957 was caught much earlier but still claimed one million lives.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3497355.stm


4,114 posted on 04/13/2005 1:46:35 PM PDT by JustPiper (NoE your Enemy !!!)
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