Bomb Plot Shows Key Role Played by Intelligence

Last week, a woman dropped of a package at the UPS office in Yemen addressed to Chicago that turned out to be a bomb. The bomb was identified in Britain after 2 days of travel. The bomb made it onto four different cargo flights, two of them also carrying passengers. This is a wake up call to officials about the quality of the security. Despite the billions of dollars that are spent on security to prevent terrorism, the bomb most likely would have made it to Chicago, however the Saudi Arabian service set off an international terrorism alert. The government now must inspect cargo more closely to prevent carefully hidden bombs from slipping through security.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/world/01terror.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=us
Tom Millman