Chemical Plants Must Be Safe From Attack

• By Reps. Bennie Thompson, Henry Waxman, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ed Markey
• Special to Roll Call
• June 25, 2009, Midnight

It is a terrible fact of life after 9/11 that we now more fully understand the elements of a terrorist attack. It involves a weapon, a target and a terrorist. In London, Madrid, Islamabad, Mumbai and Bali, the elements were separate and distinct. In some cases, however, the weapon and the target could be one and the same.