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Introduction
Pages 7-10

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... On October 29, 2010, officials in Dubai and London intercepted bombs concealed inside printer cartridges that were shipped from Yemen and were destined for the United States; (2) in November 2003 a DHL cargo jet was struck in Iraq by a Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS)
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... Because the Department of Homeland Security focuses its efforts on preventing terrorists and lethal materials that could cause mass casualties from entering the United States, the implementation of DHS's mission on export controls is fundamentally different from these departments in two ways: 1. Major elements of the DHS mission -- including equipment, technologies, and services, as well as concepts of operations -- need to be widely shared in global civil networks (e.g., civil aviation; ocean shipping; information; and space, air, cable, and terrestrial communications)
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... This mission requires exports from DHS to support its international efforts to provide the United States with access to the best foreign scientific developments in the antiterror field, and to make possible the deployment overseas of superior U.S. hardware and software for screening and detection purposes.
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