Terrorists Conducting Surveillance On Ferries

September 9, 2006

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Although security has improved dramatically since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the ferries plying the waters of Puget Sound remain vulnerable, and intelligence suggests that terrorists are conducting surveillance and the ferries could be a target.

FBI and homeland security officials said no terrorist plots had been uncovered, but in the three years after Sept. 11, the FBI reviewed 157 “suspicious incidents” involving the Washington state ferry system, the nation’s largest. Of those, seven were classified as having an “extremely” high likelihood of being pre-operational planning, 11 were classified as a “high” likelihood and 49 as “medium,” according to briefing documents provided in late August to members of the House Homeland Security Committee.

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