U.S. CHEMICAL PLANTS OPEN TO TERROR ASSAULTS

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A successful terrorist attack at the Kuehne Chemical Company, just nine miles from nine miles from New York's Times Square, could endanger the lives of up to 12 million people. But the plant, which manufactures deadly chlorine and sulfur dioxide gases, is woefully unprotected, reports Salon's Jake Tapper. And efforts to beef up security at this and similar facilities have been blocked time and time again by the chemical industry.

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