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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (15348)6/15/2002 2:10:33 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
No Place To Hide
Increased cooperation among European police forces is making life more difficult for terrorists
By ROD USHER

Customs officers making a routine drugs check in the Belgian port of Antwerp were inspecting a crate full of gherkins and garlic aboard an Iranian freighter when they discovered something with much more kick: a home-made mortar weighing 190 kg, plus some 320-mm shells. Once upon a time a photograph of smiling agents showing off the seized weapon would have appeared in the next day's newspapers. But instead of trumpeting their find, the Belgians told only the central authority for police intelligence in Germany, the B.K.A. The freighter was Hamburg-bound and the bill of lading named the receiver as an Iranian with an import-export business in Munich. The B.K.A. alerted the police there, who arrested the man.

In the past, such a catch would have been highly unlikely. Police and security forces are obliged to respect borders, are jealous of arrest scores and are typically secretive with their information. But international terrorism ignores frontiers and uses differences between states to its advantage--so if defense against terrorist action is to succeed, operations like the one in Antwerp in 1996 must become increasingly common in Europe.

time.com
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