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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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