Checking for ID’s is more secure than just waving vehicles with DoD decals through the gate. This matches the occupant(s) to the proferred ID, not a car which can be borrowed or stolen. The security folks (AF and contractor) where I work actually take the ID from me, look at me, look at the ID and studiously compare the 2.
In addition, there are other means used to verify the ID’s, so one can’t just get “waved through” by having a decal or flashing an ID like in the past.
At the installation I work at, they do random vehicle searches, no rhyme or reason, as it should be. You just never know when it’s “your turn”.
Prayers for all the victims and their families.
Only a couple of days ago the Al Qaeda leader called for more homegrown attacks on the U.S.
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Al Qaeda Leader Calls for New Attacks on US
12:05PM Monday
September 16, 2013
Al Qaeda Leader Calls for New Attacks on US (Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(BEIRUT) — Al Qaeda failed to make good on threats to strike U.S. diplomatic outposts on this week’s 9/11 anniversary, but in a new audio tape, the leader of the besieged terror network renewed his plea to followers to strike at American interests — and to aim lower, if necessary, with individual acts of violence.
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In the new Arabic-language tape, released Sept. 12 Zawahiri chortled over the “blessed” 2001 strikes that left thousands of Americans dead, as well as April’s Boston Marathon bombings that killed just three Americans, which he claimed was proof of a Muslim “uprising.”
“Keeping America in tension and anticipation only costs a few disparate attacks here and there,” Zawahiri explained during his 72-minute recording. “These disparate strikes can be done by one brother or a few of the brothers.”