Report: Nuclear plants 'naked' to terror threat-San Onofre Nuclear Plant on beach
America's nuclear power plants and research labs remain vulnerable to terrorist attacks from the sea, sky and control room, despite tighter security imposed since 9/11, says a scholarly study prepared for the Pentagon and released Thursday ...
"The spent fuel pools are a very significant vulnerability, as we saw in Fukushima in Japan," Kuperman said. "The concern is that terrorists could do intentionally to a spent fuel pool what happened to Fukushima's pools by an accident of nature: You drain the water out. The fuel heats up, and melts, and you get a criticality event and the release of very significant amounts of radiation" ...
Terrorists have indeed eyed nuclear power plants as potential targets, the report said. Al Qaeda considered attacks on a nuclear power reactor as part of its original 9/11 plan, and there have been reported threats or attempts to blow up or penetrate nuclear reactors inArgentina, Russia, Lithuania, Western Europe, South Africa and South Korea ...
CAIRCO Research
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Orange County Register: Border Station is more than checkpoint- August 15, 2013
[...] Rodney Scott, the deputy chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego sector, said the agency's primary focus is protecting the nation's land and sea borders. "The threats have evolved over the years and specific to the checkpoints," Scott said. "We know that no matter what we do right directly on the border, through tunnels, through covert activities, through ultra-lights (small aircraft) or through boats or whatever, or just sneaking through the ports of entry, we're gonna lose some people at the border," he added ...
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August 2011 -3 held in drug smuggling near San Onofre- Three men were arrested south of San Onofre State Beach as they tried to sneak 741 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico...
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March 2011 -Border battle over illegal immigration shifts to beaches- Now, they were bobbing off Red Beach at Camp Pendleton. Out in the darkness, California beckoned."Jump out!" barked the pilot. The 17 immigrants [illegal aliens] climbed over the side of the rickety boat ...
February 2003 report by the Library of Congress, ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN MEXICO, 1999-2002 *Islamic Terrorist Organizations * page 43 PDF
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November 2012 "A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border," prepared by the Republican staff of a subcommittee to the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee that was chaired by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin ...
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February 2005 -New intelligence information strongly suggests that Al Qaeda has considered infiltrating the United States through the Mexican border, top government officials told Congress on Wednesday-
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August 2004 -U.S., Mexico say border breaches may be tied to terror activity-
Fears that terrorists might enter the United States via remote stretches of the border with Mexico are not based on idle chatter, according to authorities on both sides ...
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May 2010 -Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border-
The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com. The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami...