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To: maceng2 who wrote (16200)	1/12/2002 12:26:40 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

When I returned to the US after working in France several years, my container was never inspected. Granted, all I had was some undeclared wine and champagne, but I could have put anything in there with the slightest complicity on the part of the guys who loaded it at my apartment... in fact many of the boxes I'd packed and taped before their arrival just got loaded on the truck. It's like monitoring internet traffic, there is just so much international commerce that I believe it's nearly impossible to really control things in a country the size of the US with the velocity of money and active economy we enjoy. This tells me that the terrorists who really care enough to try and harm the US are a lot more rare than one would think... it has to be the only thing that has "saved" us so far. That and the fact that one doesn't make any money on terrorism. Drugs involve mind boggling amounts of money, and only a small fraction is ever intercepted. Can you imagine what it would be like if terrorism was actually profitable?

To: maceng2 who wrote (16200)	1/12/2002 9:37:41 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

Loaded containers, I clearly remember when the port of Floridian Tampa was very systematic in inspecting especially some specific containers from certain sources of risk. Ilmarinen The deal was obviously that only the right inspector would do that specific inspection. (with another 2-3 guys standing in the back watching the procedure, ready for Plan-B if something still went wrong) And that was only to find some grass, vegetarian products in all those tons of also vegetarian coffee, but it fueled the economy of the state of the now Bush brothers. Btw, the finnish-russian-"muslim-states" border is also intersting, additionally in terms of natural gas, like Enron.