How terror scuds pose threat to U.S.
November 17, 2005 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
Most of the U.S. civilian population, military bases and nuclear-weapons assembly plants are within range of missile attacks by terrorists or rogue nations using merchant ships as launching platforms, warn counter-terror experts.
Both the U.S. military and foreign military forces %u2013 including Iran’s %u2013 have tested missile launches from non-military vessels.
At the top of the risk list is the Russian-made Scud family of missiles, all too often found on the weapons’ black market, and, according to counter-terror analysts, undoubtedly on the minds of terror organizations such as al-Qaida, which is known to have shown interest in the Scud maritime option.
