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Stories about: tunnels

Robots Scout Drug Traffic Tunnels on US Borders The border between the United States and Mexico is one of the most assaulted in the world, as far as the number of illegal immigrants trying to push through goes. Despite the Secure Border Fence Act of 2006, with which the Congress approved the construction of 700 miles of fence between the two nations, immigrants an... 16 May 2009 04:05 GMT Fiber Optic Cables Can Detect Underground Tunnels Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have recently announced that they have devised a way of using telecommunications-grade fiber optic cables to detect war-time underground tunnels, like those used by Hamas in the Gaza strip to smuggle in weapons across the Israeli border. Their finds are to be presen... 13 January 2009 04:36 GMT