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Inside the Ring: Fears rise over oil tanker training of potential terrorists
Washington Times ^ | September 3, 2014 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 09/04/2014 7:47:58 AM PDT by maggief

U.S. intelligence agencies last month reported that a group of 22 Yemeni-Americans were training in Houston to be seamen on oil tankers, raising terrorism concerns over the unusual activity.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an Aug. 26 report from its National Terrorism Advisory System about the case.

“Reporting revealed that 22 students of Middle Eastern descent from Michigan and California were enrolled in recent maritime training courses in Houston, TX to obtain training, licensing, and/or mariner ratings during calendar year 2014,” the report said. “All students were naturalized U.S. citizens from Yemen.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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1 posted on 09/04/2014 7:47:58 AM PDT by maggief
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3198480/posts

Mystery of the missing tanker: Ship carrying $100million in Kurdish oil vanishes from radar screens
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 8/29/14 | Jack Crone for MailOnline and Louise Boyle and Reuters

full title....Mystery of the missing tanker: Ship carrying $100million in Kurdish oil vanishes from radar screens 60 miles off the coast of Texas

A tanker loaded with $100 million of crude oil that has been at the center of a dispute over Iraq’s oil billions vanished off the coast of Texas on Thursday.

The Kurdish tanker disappeared from Coast Guard radar screens following a month of legal wrangling over whether it can offload its cargo in the U.S.

As the disintegration of Iraq amid mounting violence continues, the semi-autonomous regime in Kurdistan – in the north of Iraq – is trying to cash in on Iraq’s oil reserves and export its own crude.


2 posted on 09/04/2014 7:50:47 AM PDT by maggief
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Horrifying, they are at war with us and obama/valjar wants to manage them.


3 posted on 09/04/2014 7:52:26 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: maggief

Oil tanker, LNG, could make a heck of a mess in our
harbors, combined with attacks on our energy sector,
things would go to hell pretty fast.


4 posted on 09/04/2014 7:54:15 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: maggief
This is what America voted for.

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5 posted on 09/04/2014 7:54:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: tet68
things would go to hell pretty fast.

Remember, change is good.

6 posted on 09/04/2014 7:55:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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Cover all control surfaces and loading/unloading interfaces on ships with pigskin. Lubricate non-wearing moving parts with hog lard. Pork and wine as the staple shipboard diet. Did I forget anything?


7 posted on 09/04/2014 7:55:59 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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“All students were naturalized U.S. citizens from Yemen.”

What could possibly go wrong? /s


8 posted on 09/04/2014 7:58:10 AM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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Did I forget anything?

Oh, yeah, and DON’T HIRE ANY MUSLIMS FOR YOUR CREW!


9 posted on 09/04/2014 7:58:17 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: maggief

The section of that article about new Chinese weapon-detection systems is worth reading, too.


10 posted on 09/04/2014 8:02:32 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: maggief

Whatever historians there are left to look back on the collapse of Western Civilization will find it hard to believe the extent to which we actively participated in our own demise.


11 posted on 09/04/2014 8:13:02 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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A free society can’t be armored against terrorists.

A free society can, and must, destroy those who want to destroy/enslave them.

America can and must nuke all major Islamic cities, starting with Mecca.

Then command all Muslims to choose another religion or die.

Yes, we can kill all of them if they force us to.


12 posted on 09/04/2014 8:16:31 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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The tanker didn’t go anywhere, just a little farther down the same thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3198480/posts?page=11#11


13 posted on 09/04/2014 8:31:43 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; tet68
tet68: things would go to hell pretty fast.

Jeff Chandler: Remember, change is good."

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...fundamental transformations....

14 posted on 09/04/2014 10:51:54 AM PDT by hummingbird (Mark Levin and Article 5. Period. 26 IS THE NEW 18. US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: JimRed
Did I forget anything?

Verses from the koran printed on the toilet paper.

15 posted on 09/04/2014 1:57:40 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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Just so people know, this is not even slightly alarming to people who are actually in the maritime industry. There are tons of Yemeni-Americans in the merchant marine, and there have been for a long time. It is entirely unremarkable that a lot of them wound up training at the same time for this endorsement. It sounds like a juicy article, but there’s really nothing there.


16 posted on 09/08/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by Kamujin
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