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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations
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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations

by Anna M. Doro-on
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
14h 2m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations
Preparedness, Preventive, and Defensive Measures361
In today’s world, confronted with the realities of terrorism and terroristic objec-
tives, one must also acknowledge that tunnels pose a looming threat to national
security (Ugarte and Garcia-Olalla 2011). A 2007 operational need statement from
the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) noted that detainees were attempting
to build a tunnel as a means to escape from the internment facilities (Ugarte and
Garcia-Olalla 2011). Another region with an emerging subterranean threat to US
Forces is in Afghanistan with the Karez, or underground aquifers built to move
irrigation water from mountains to villages by normal gravity-driven ow and pres-
ent the Taliban and other insurgents with a means to cac ...
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