Ridge Discovers Size of Home Security Task :)))

[Cees Binkhorst]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/politics/03HOME.html
By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, March 2 — Shortly after noon on Friday, Feb. 7, the
nation's secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, announced that
the nation had been placed on "high risk" of terrorist attacks. As he
issued his dire warning, almost nobody in Washington knew that eight
hours earlier, a team of heavily armed security agents of a hostile
foreign government had landed on American soil.

Luckily, the four men were not terrorists. They were defecting
Cubans, agents of the Cuban coast guard, who arrived in Key West,
Fla., aboard a 30-foot government patrol boat, the Cuban flag still
flapping from the mast.

Carrying two AK-47 rifles and full clips of ammunition, they docked
their boat before dawn at the marina of the local Hyatt hotel, a
short distance from the United States Coast Guard station.
Undetected, the Cubans, still in their camouflage uniforms and black
boots, marched into the middle of the sultry Florida resort town
looking for someone to surrender to.

The ability of a large, armed foreign patrol boat to enter American
waters and dock is under investigation by the Coast Guard, which
formally became part of the Department of Homeland Security on
Saturday, along with the Customs Service, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service and 17 other agencies.
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