An anti-terror initiative that makes sense:
BRUSSELS – Five American customs officers have now clocked up a week checking the contents of containers bound for the US at the port of Antwerp. The port presence is a consequence of an agreement between Belgium and the US signed in June of last year on the application of the Container Security Initiative (CSI). The project, which was first put into motion the day after the events of 11 September, is an attempt to intercept weapons of mass destruction at ports of departure. Antwerp is one of the world’s top 20 major ports from which 70 percent of US imports originate. |