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“Australians Taken Hostage in China Freed”
March 5, 2008 - 5:29am

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police in China have shot and killed a local man who took 10 Australians hostage on a tourist bus.

The official Xinhua News Agency reports police shot the man after he hijacked a bus in the popular tourist city of Xian on Wednesday morning.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Xinhua says the man, named Xia Tao, was armed with explosives and was shot and killed after a standoff that lasted almost three hours.”

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“Government warns of terror threat to trains”
Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:08 PM PT
Filed Under: Terrorism
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In a bulletin released Friday to U.S. law enforcement officials, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning of “continued strong terrorist interest” in targeting mass transit systems in the U.S. The 10-page threat assessment, labeled “Unclassified/For Official Use Only” and obtained by NBC News, cautions that the “U.S. mass transit and passenger rail systems are vulnerable to terrorist attacks because they are accessible to large numbers of the public and are notoriously difficult to secure.” Previous rail attacks in Madrid, London and Mumbai “could inspire terrorists to conduct similar attacks in the United States,” the report adds.
However, the authors of the intelligence analysis make clear that there are no known, immediate dangers. “At this time, there is no credible intelligence regarding specific plans by any extremist groups or individuals to perpetrate an act of terrorism against the U.S. mass transit system,” they write.”