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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Millions of containers. Now, find the ‘boom box.’
Joanne Kimberlin ―
Virginian-Pilot
They look harmless enough. And, so far, they have been – just the same old shipping containers we’ve seen rumbling along our highways for decades. The one rattling by in the lane next to you could be loaded with anything from fruit to furniture.
Mark Laria dwells on the tiny chance that it carries the next 9/11.
Laria is port director at the Norfolk field office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In the 10 years he’s been here, roughly 10 million containers have come and gone.
None has been the dreaded “boom box” – the one security experts warn could be rigged with a terrorist bomb.
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