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What happens in the US? In August 2010, the US introduced a requirement for 100% of cargo loaded onto passenger planes to be screened for explosives. Certified equipment and companies are used. The US uses advanced X-ray machines which give more than one view of the package. Large consignments must be broken down into smaller boxes, although the x-ray machines can be quite large, allowing packages the size of a refrigerator to be screened. Explosives trace detection is also used, in the same way as passengers' items are sampled with a swab on a random basis. Freight loaded on non-passenger flights is also screened. What about screening in the UK? The UK uses a system of “trusted shipper”. This means a company is audited by the Department for Transport and given status as being a trusted partner and their cargo is trusted to be safe and not subject to screening. The president of detection equipment company Smiths Detection, Stephen Phipson, said “quite a lot of cargo is not searched” as a result of this system. For cargo which is shipped by non-trusted shippers, other companies screen it using sniffer dogs and basic x-rays. TEXT 6 MOSCOW METRO HIT BY DEADLY SUICIDE BOMBINGS Monday, 29 March 2010 At least 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured in two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro during the morning rush hour, say officials. Female suicide bombers are believed to have carried out the attacks on trains that had stopped at two stations in the heart of the Russian capital. — 34 — No group has yet claimed responsibility for being behind the attacks. But Russian security services believe the bombers are linked to militant groups in the North Caucasus region. Past suicide bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on Islamist rebels fighting for independence from Russia in Chechnya. Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, cut short a visit to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and said a crime that was “terrible in its consequences and heinous in its manner” had been committed. “I am confident that law enforcement bodies will spare no effort to track down and punish the criminals. Terrorists will be destroyed”, he added. President Dmitry Medvedev echoed his words after laying a wreath at the site of one of the attacks, saying: “They are animals. I have no doubt that we will find and destroy them all”. жүктеу/скачать 0,58 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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