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From the Times …
It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonaldâs Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified âBeach at End of a Street.â
But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not childâs play: all these âunusual or out-of-placeâ sites âwhose criticality is not readily apparentâ are inexplicably included in the official federal antiterrorism database.
The National Asset Database, as it is known, is so flawed, the inspector general found, that as of January, Indiana, with 8,591 potential terrorist targets, had 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687) and more than twice as many as California (3,212), ranking the state the most target-rich place in the nation.
âNixâs Check Cashing,â âIce Cream Parlor,â âTackle Shop,â âDonut Shop,â and âBean Festâ also made the list.
I’ve been forgetting to make another trip to Bean Fest. Beans!