[Cindy]

FOX NEWS.com: "Officials Fear Sea-Borne Terrorist Strikes"


Thursday, January 01, 2004


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON  — Terrorist strikes from the sea could be even more catastrophic than those from the air, intelligence officials say. They fear a hijacked oil tanker could be rigged with explosives or a radioactive dirty bomb could be smuggled ashore in a shipping container."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107169,00.html

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ALASKA.com: "Valdez tanker port shut down" (December 1, 2004)

By ZAZ HOLLANDER and WESLEY LOY
Anchorage Daily News

http://www.adn.com/front/v-akcom/story/4571168p-4543250c.html

[Cindy]

CORRECTION: re post no. 5040...All of those dates of the articles are supposed to read January 1, 2004.

[JustPiper]

And I do believe that with the cargo plane into an oil tanker full of thousands of gallons of fuel, with the dirty bomb material, moored near a city...

[JustPiper]

NOTEWORTHY: Coast Guard officials said the deadline for submitting the plans was met by about 5,200 of 10,000 ships told to submit them and only 1,100 of 5,000 port facilities — despite a potential fine of $25,000.