U.S. House Democrats on Tuesday slammed the Bush administration for its failures to make significant progress on 25 anti-terror mandates.
In a report released by the Democratic chairmen and majority staffs of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees, the Democrats gave poor scores for the White House's record in carrying out legislation to implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations.
They said incomplete progress had been made and opportunities were squandered in improving security for aviation, rail, ports and borders, including missed chances to bolster information sharing, emergency response and biosurveillance.
The report cited "failure to take action" in four of the 25 mandates, including surveying airports for their terrorist vulnerabilities. Ten areas showed little or no progress.
For example, in the area of shipping container screening, it found "no progress" on implementing the 100 percent screening requirement included in the legislation.
Congress had set a deadline of July 1, 2012, for implementing the screening.
On Sept. 11, 2001, the United States was hit by a series of coordinated suicide terror attacks.
Terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airliners. Two of the planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
The hijackers crashed the third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane, which was heading for Washington, D.C., crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pa.
Excluding the 19 hijackers, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.
Source:Xinhua
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