U.S. Must Spend More On Embassy Safety --
Report
By Jonathan Wright
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
U.S. administrations and Congresses failed for 10
years to finance the kind of security that might have
prevented the bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa in
August 1998, a report said Friday.
The remedy is
to spend about $1.4 billion a year for the next 10
years on making U.S. embassies safer and to make
security a
much higher priority in diplomats' thinking,
said the joint report by two Accountability Review
Boards.
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The biggest single problem is the failure to carry
out a long-standing recommendation that embassies
have a protected perimeter at least 100 feet (30
meters) deep. Only 12 percent of U.S. embassies meet the
requirement, set by a similar commission on diplomatic
security 14 years ago.
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article.
Doesn't Magal have 40% of the perimeter intrusion
detection business? Gee that would make revenues $1/2B per
year for the next several years.