FC: U.S. Customs says terrorists buy "computer encryption devices"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/national/10CUST.html?searchpv=nytToday

Customer Acts Odd? U.S. Wants to Know
By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -— Federal agents are planning to fan out across the 
country this week in an effort to recruit American businesses in the war on 
terror, urging companies to notify the government of suspicious customers.

Robert C. Bonner, commissioner of the Customs Service, said he had 
developed a list of about 100 items that the authorities believed 
terrorists wanted to buy in this country. Starting Monday, Mr. Bonner said, 
federal agents will visit the manufacturers, emphasize the need for 
vigilance and encourage them to inform the Customs Service at once if they 
are approached by anyone trying to buy these items for possibly illegal 
shipment abroad.

The terrorists' shopping list, the Customs Service says, includes missiles, 
grenades, grenade launchers and other munitions; aircraft parts; computer 
encryption devices; and components of biological, chemical and nuclear 
weapons, as well as items that might be used to manufacture or deliver such 
weapons.

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