Rail lines in Tucson could be terror bait

Although the Bush administration is extremely fond of crowing about how they've "made us safer" with their civil-liberty restrictions and their fearmongering, they are all-too-happy to completely ignore legitimate threats in favor of higher profile measures like forcing airline passengers to remove their shoes for inspection at airport security stations.

From the article:

More than 1,600 rail tanker loads of poisonous gas vulnerable to terrorist attack roll through Tucson in a year, potentially threatening most of the city.

A chlorine disaster could kill people up to 5.6 miles downwind of Union Pacific Railroad in Tucson.

In a less-likely or "worst-case" scenario in which the weather and other conditions are ideal for toxic terrorism, the deadly fog could maim and kill up to 9.6 miles away, newly disclosed emergency-planning documents show.