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Police said they were dealing with a complex situation on board the vessel. A spokesman for Grimaldi Lines, which runs the Grande Tema cargo ship, said four stowaways had threatened the ship’s staff.

OMAHA, Neb. — The Nebraska Humane Society said staff had never seen anything like this until KETV NewsWatch 7 showed them the video. Now, there’s a ‘cat chase’ for updates on the feline or someone who may know what happened. “My daughter says, ‘There's a cat on that van,’ and I was like, ‘Oh no, that's a raccoon,'” recalled Ronda Rankin. “When my husband pulls up closer, I'm like, ‘Oh my God, no, that's a cat.’”

The following story was told to the American-Rattlesnake by a graduate of the Maritime College of the State University of New York, who has an unlimited master’s license and has been a sailor for over a decade. American-Rattlesnake has maintained their anonymity at their request.Working as a merchant mariner, stowaway stories were not new to me. I got my own story to tell on a vessel carrying two Ethiopian refugees back to the USA. This is not going to be a tale of woe and sympathy for refugees. It is a tale of woe for America – the great nation...

More details have emerged about an apparent infiltration of Islamic terrorists through US ports during the past two months.Some of the men slipped through secuirty disguised as stevedores, according to Bob Graham Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.He said he had seen reports indicating that some extremists might have been wearing safety jackets and protective helmets to give the appearance of dockworkers.U.S. Coast Guard Officials have refused to divulge any information about the reports but Graham stressed: 'The American people have a right to know.'He said 25 extremists 'entered in a foriegn country, hid out in a container...

Thirty-two Chinese stowaways were found in two cargo containers in Los Angeles after surviving a nearly two-week ocean journey from Hong Kong, officials said. The 32 would-be illegal immigrants were taken into custody on Saturday after a crane operator in Los Angeles port spotted three men climbing out of a hole cut in the side of a container, police said. The containers with the men inside were loaded onto the ship two weeks ago in Shekou, China, police said. The men were in good health, officials said. The stowaways, all men, had equipped the containers with supplies and ventilation...

An Al-Qaida Terrorist Related To Bosnian Goverment Arrested In Italy,AP & Reuters, October 1st, 2002.Alleged Tunisian terrorist arrested in southern Italy, reports say BARI, Italy (AP) - Police arrested a Tunisian man Saturday who had been sought by Italian and French authorities for alleged links to Islamic terrorism, news reports said. Bazaaoui Mondher Ben Mohsen, 35, was taken into custody by Italy's DIGOS anti-terrorism police in the southern city of Bari, the AGI news agency reported. He was to be held in Bologna, where he was charged in 1998 with "criminal association" for allegedly supporting Islamic fighters in Bosnia, the...

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether Islamic extremists infiltrated the nation by stowing away on Algerian liquefied natural gas tankers that docked in the Port of Boston and has concluded several stowaways may have had links to indicted Al Qaeda terrorists, officials disclosed yesterday. In a letter to US Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Malden, the department said that the US Coast Guard formed a joint task force with customs and immigration analysts in October to determine whether ''Algerian nationals have been using maritime transport to illegally enter the US and whether these individuals have links...

Terrorists may try using stowaways and shoulder-launched missiles to bring down airplanes, a senior Singapore official warned today. "Given the iconic status enjoyed by airports and airlines, it is paramount that all players in the global aviation industry continue to remain vigilant," the city-state's second minister for transport Balaji Sadasivan told an aviation security conference. Besides stowaways carrying explosives or weapons, or shoulder-fired missiles, Mr Sadasivan said terrorists could send a bomb by cargo. He called for increased co-operation between aviation authorities to combat such threats. Singapore, a staunch US ally, has placed air marshals on national carrier Singapore...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the second time in a week, an apparent stowaway was found dead in a wheel well of a passenger jet that landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, raising airport security concerns, officials said on Wednesday. The body of a man believed to be in his 30s was discovered on Tuesday night during a maintenance inspection of British Airways flight 177 from London's Heathrow Airport, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. On Christmas Eve, JFK airport maintenance crews found the body of a stowaway in a...

Yelling "Hey, Colombian people!" five Colombian stowaways emerged jubilantly from a ship they thought had docked in Miami only to discover they were still in their homeland after five days at sea, police said on Friday. The Dutch-flagged cargo ship carrying the unfortunate five, which sailed from Buenaventura on Sunday, had mechanical problems which meant that its five-day journey only took it as far as another Colombian port, Cartagena, by Thursday. The stowaways' rudimentary English yells of joy were interrupted when they were arrested by Colombian police. "They wanted the American dream, but they only made it to Cartagena," said...

21 stowaways captured on Houston Ship Channel By S.K. BARDWELL Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Seven stowaways who leaped from a Honduran barge into the Houston Ship Channel and 14 more found on board the barge are being detained by immigration officials. The barge, El Jaguar, is being searched by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, who believe at least two more stowaways may be hiding there or could have jumped into the water. The incident began about 10 a.m. today, as the barge was making its way to Jacinto Port, said Port Authority spokeswoman Felicia Griffin. Four people...

INDIANAPOLIS TV journalist Bill O’Reilly blasted federal immigration officials for releasing juvenile sniper suspect John Lee Malvo last year instead of deporting him back to Jamaica. In a speech Wednesday, O’Reilly reiterated allegations he aired on his FOX News program this week: that an Immigration and Naturalization Service agent altered an arrest report, allowing Malvo to be released after the Border Patrol had arrested him last year as an illegal alien. Malvo, 17, is the alleged accomplice of D.C. sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad. The pair has been arrested and charged with 13 shootings and 10 deaths in Maryland...

Ports consider devices to detect stowawaysBy CAROLYN SHAPIRO, The Virginian-Pilot© September 28, 2002 NORFOLK -- Even with the door of the shipping container cracked open, no one could tell if a person was hiding inside. No one except maybe Howard Sidman. Standing in the yard of Norfolk International Terminals on Friday, he held a device shaped like a large handgun with an antenna sticking out from the barrel. Sidman pointed the antenna at one port police officer as he walked around the back of the container. If the antenna picked up a human signal from inside the large metal box,...