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Adding on to post no. 2163 -- Two unrelated articles:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035921/posts "Search of ship finds nothing abnormal"
The Daily News Longview Washington ^ | Dec 07, 2003 | Hope Anderson
Posted on 12/07/2003 7:25:27 PM PST by Oorang
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Coast Guard inspection of a freighter docked at the Port of Longview "didn't uncover or reveal anything," a Coast Guard spokesman said Saturday, but the crew members are not allowed off the ship and security will be maintained until the ship leaves.
"We were not expecting to find anything," Lt. Cmdr. Glynn Smith, the Coast Guard's public affairs officer for the Pacific area, said Saturday by telephone from his office in Alameda, Calif.
The search was routine, according to the Coast Guard, but Longview officials said the security crackdown is the most port activity since the Sept. 11, 2001, security measures.
"We had some intelligence and thought the prudent thing to do would be to secure the vessel, inspect it and provide security while it's in port," Smith said. "This is just precautionary; there's no active threat.""
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035885/posts "Al-Qaida's plan to nuke London"
WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/07/2003 | JOSEPH FARAH
Posted on 12/07/2003 5:34:17 PM PST by tmp02
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network plotted to detonate a dirty nuke bomb floated into London on one of its armada of mystery ships, but the plan was foiled by security forces, says an official.
The device was to be delivered on a cargo ship and moored at a dock ready to be detonated when the wind was right, according to the People newspaper in London. If it had exploded, it would have contaminated a huge area and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of terrified people.
The plot, thwarted by security forces, was revealed by Homeland Security shadow minister Patrick Mercer, a Tory terrorist expert and former senior army officer. A cargo ship suspected of carrying the bomb -- the 26,000-ton MV Nisha -- was stormed by the elite Special Boat Squadron in the English Channel two years ago, said Mercer.
But the Indian-owned vessel was carrying sugar. The real al-Qaida ship bound for Britain was frightened off by the raid."