US scanning containers in Pakistan

Can the US also scan movements and locations of Pakistani nuclear weapons?

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\13\story_13-4-2007_pg1_6

US scanning containers in Pakistan

TEGUCIGALPA: Nuclear detection devices are up and running at ports in Pakistan and Honduras, the first phase of a larger plan to increase the security of shipping containers before they arrive in the US, Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson announced on Wednesday.

Jackson toured Puerto Cortes, on Honduras’ Caribbean coast, and inspected the new devices that are screening containers for nuclear and radiological material. He said the Secure Freight Initiative, announced in December, will be expanded to four other non-US ports: Southhampton, England; Salalah, Oman; Port of Singapore; and the Gamman Terminal, Korea.

“Terrorists and criminals use global shipping networks, and we are deploying multiple layers of advanced technology to counter their tactics,” he said. “Secure Freight creates a global nuclear detection network with shippers, carriers and foreign allies, to head off the worst possible form of attack, a nuclear or dirty bomb on our soil.”

The testing began on April 2 in Puerto Cortes. Tests in Port Qasim, Pakistan, began in March. Another US official said separately the next generation of radiation-detection technology should be ready for use at US ports and borders this year. Tests underway at the New York Container Terminal have gone well enough. agencies

Re: US scanning containers in Pakistan

JUST two fronts covered and so many more to go. Poor Amreekans

Re: US scanning containers in Pakistan

guess he moonalked into a cushy job.

the approachhas its limitations, and it also does not do anything for biological or chemical weapons.

someone read up on the amount of container traffic coming to our shores in US and how many of them get inspected.

Re: US scanning containers in Pakistan

So much for the Pakistani sovereignty!