WikiLeaks: Irish locations vital to US national security

Controversial website WikiLeaks has released a list of international locations considered vital to US security, including two in Ireland.

The two Irish locations mentioned in the list are the Genzyme biotech plant in Waterford, which produced thymoglobulin, and The Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable, a submarine communications system that links Europe with North America.

The two locations in Ireland mentioned in the The American cable “build a safer, more secure, and more resilient America by enhancing protection of the nation’s CI/KR [critical infrastructure/key resources] to prevent, deter, neutralize or mitigate the effects of deliberate efforts by terrorists to destroy, incapacitate or exploit them; and to strengthen national preparedness, timely response, and rapid recovery in the event of an attack, natural disaster or other emergency”.