If you thought that faxing the coastguard before taking to the sea in Dubai was excessive, be thankful you're not in the US. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has called for the screening and inspection of small boats for bombs as a new anti-terrorism initiative in San Diego.
Chertoff said that although a lot of effort has been expended on screening cargo containers for bombs, "I haven't heard anybody talk about small boats... And a nuclear bomb on a small boat can do just as much damage as one in a container."
He of course referred, as all connections between boats and terrorism do, to the suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole that was attacked by a small boat laden with explosives in Aden in 2000.
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