Stopping Car Bombs in their Tracks  Inside vehicular perimeter
security systems and strategies  From embassies and universities
to transportation hubs and used car lots, a wide variety of
organizations protect themselves from errant drivers and truck
bomb threats with barriers, bollards, barricades and crash
gates.  Think back to April 2010, in Peshawar, Pakistan. A
Taliban bomber rammed his car into a police checkpost, killing
five policemen; however, Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali told
Reuters that the attacker was apparently trying to make his way
into the city but decided to set off his explosives when he was
stopped by pedestrian gates.  If one compares the destruction
car and truck bombs have caused to the eventin Peshawar, it is
easy to discern that a large factor in saving lives from vehicle
bombers is to successfully stop the attacking vehicle far enough
away from a facility to avoid thehigh pressure shock wave of a
bomb blast.  The U.S. Embassy in Jordan not only uses barriers
to protect its comp