A weapon of mass destruction smuggled into our country in a cargo-container could be the next 911. The bad guys watched and learned how we reacted after the last attack by grounding all aviation. They could generate massive economic and societal disruption if they succeed at spooking us into closing our borders and ports to all incoming containers,
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