Washington, July 17: Outlining the national strategy for Homeland Security, US President George W Bush will call for necessary steps to protect "an open society" from "a new wave of terrorism, potentially involving the world's most destructive weapons." The Bush Administration has prepared a blueprint for unveiling by the President personally in which some steps are declared necessary to protect "an open society that presents an almost infinite array of potential targets."
"Our enemy is smart and resolute. We are smarter and more resolute," Bush said yesterday in a letter to the nation accompanying the 100-page strategy.
Nine months in the making, President Bush's grimly worded plan argues that security be hardened against "catastrophic threats" such as nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical weapons, as well as cyber attacks. Bureau Report