Row of Loosely Guarded Targets Lies Just Outside New York City

[lostnfound]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/nyregion/09homeland.html?th&emc=th

It is the deadliest target in a swath of industrial northern New Jersey that terrorism experts call the most dangerous two miles in America: a chemical plant that processes chlorine gas, so close to Manhattan that the Empire State Building seems to rise up behind its storage tanks.

According to federal Environmental Protection Agency records, the plant poses a potentially lethal threat to 12 million people who live within a 14-mile radius.

Yet on a recent Friday afternoon, it remained loosely guarded and accessible. Dozens of trucks and cars drove by within 100 feet of the tanks. A reporter and photographer drove back and forth for five minutes, snapping photos with a camera the size of a large sidearm, then left without being approached.

That chemical plant is just one of dozens of vulnerable sites between Newark Liberty International Airport and Port Elizabeth, which extends two miles to the east. A Congressional study in 2000 by a former Coast Guard commander deemed it the nation's most enticing environment for terrorists, providing a convenient way to cripple the economy by disrupting major portions of the country's rail lines, oil storage tanks and refineries, pipelines, air traffic, communications networks and highway system.

[truthisfreedom]

1. the bush administration is completely insane. they are no doubt the most

corrupt and incompetent administration in US history. bush should be impeached for this one offense alone... not securing our chemical plants.

[leftchick]

2. bushco** will just take it off the list...

Then poof! the problem is solved. :grr:

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Everyone knows that the stink from these places

would keep any wannabe terrorist away. Who needs security?

:sarcasm off:

[maddezmom]

4. homeland security money, once again doing little to keep us safe

:eyes:

[DawnneOBTS]

5. Chimpy doesn't care

These are the people that didn't vote for him...TWICE! I think he'd be happy-come on, why were only "Blue" states (PA, NY, and which includes D.C.) hit on September 11th? Think about it.

[lostnfound]

6. kick nt