Wednesday, Sep 15, 2004
Three Gorges security tightened
SHANGHAI: China has stationed anti-terror troops equipped with helicopters, tanks and bomb disposal robots to defend the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, a state newspaper said on Tuesday. The troops are elite graduates of paramilitary People's Armed Police training programmes who specialise in counterterrorism, the newspaper Huaxia Times reported, citing state television.
The deployment is the last step in a "comprehensive anti-terrorism network" that China has constructed at major bridges, dams and power stations, the report said. The extra defences are a response to perceived threats both from terrorists and from other countries, the report said. It cited a "clearly rising threat from the U.S." and a military build-up in Japan. — AP
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