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Al-Qaida plans high-sea terror
International hunt continues for Osama's 15-ship 'navy'
WorldNetDaily ^
| 10-13-2003
| Joseph Farah
Posted on 10/13/2003 2:48:59 AM PDT by Coral Snake
Al-Qaida plans high-sea terror International hunt continues for Osama's 15-ship 'navy'
Posted: October 13, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
While al-Qaida continues to hide from international authorities 15 ships it has purchased, there are growing warnings around the world the next dramatic terror attack is more likely to come at sea than in the air.
Earlier this year, a chemical tanker, the Dewi Madrim, was hijacked by machinegun-bearing pirates in speedboats off the coast of Sumatra. But these weren't ordinary pirates looking for booty. These were terrorists learning how to drive a ship. They also kidnapped officers in an effort to acquire expertise on conducting a maritime attack, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
This attack, reports G2 Bulletin was the equivalent of the al-Qaida hijackers who attended Florida flight schools before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
There is also evidence terrorists are learning about diving, with a view to attacking ships from below. The Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines kidnapped a maintenance engineer in a Sabah holiday resort in 2000. On his release in June this year, the engineer said his kidnappers knew he was a diving instructor they wanted instruction. The owner of a diving school near Kuala Lumpur has recently reported a number of ethnic Malays wanting to learn about diving, but being strangely uninterested in learning about decompression.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedaships; alqaidanavy; highseasterror; islamofascists; josephfarah; nutburgers
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10/13/2003 3:04:43 AM PDT
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10/13/2003 4:22:47 AM PDT
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Solamente
To: Coral Snake
Ships coming into the Port of Houston have to have a local pilot in control before entering the ship channel. If a ship faked everything well enough to get to the channel and didn't stop to take on a pilot it is a long way until they could do too much damage - other than scuttling the ship and blocking the channel.
Would the Coast Guard fire on a LNG carrier?
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10/13/2003 4:39:37 AM PDT
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We should arm ship crews and truck drivers for that matter. The Bush Administration has been amazingly lax and inept in arming pilots, so this isn't likely to happen as well.
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Whatever happened tp one if by land, two if by sea?
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Thanks for the post, Coral Snake.
The owner of a diving school near Kuala Lumpur has recently reported a number of ethnic Malays wanting to learn about diving, but being strangely uninterested in learning about decompression.
Underwater homicide bomber terrorists in training? I suspect that our military has this figured out.
Wonder if military dolphins are trained to bite in strategic places?
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10/13/2003 8:42:38 AM PDT
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10/13/2003 9:48:28 AM PDT
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10/13/2003 10:20:46 AM PDT
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About a year ago, my husband had a request from a Seattle Tech school to place a Muslim young man aboard an oil tanker as an intern. My husband passed the request to the FBI and asked that the FBI vet the kid before they allowed him aboard, but the FBI ignored his request.
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10/13/2003 12:12:26 PM PDT
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Eva
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"About a year ago, my husband had a request from a Seattle Tech school to place a Muslim young man aboard an oil tanker as an intern. My husband passed the request to the FBI and asked that the FBI vet the kid before they allowed him aboard, but the FBI ignored his request."So what happened? Did your husband let him on board?
(Sorry. Your story sounded quite interesting. My curiosity is killing me!) :)
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10/13/2003 5:45:29 PM PDT
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2111USMC
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My husband had no choice, the kid was granted the internship and trained aboard a US tanker ship on the Alaska run.
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10/13/2003 7:48:11 PM PDT
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Eva
To: Eva
Your story is important.
About a year ago, my husband had a request from a Seattle Tech school to place a Muslim young man aboard an oil tanker as an intern. My husband passed the request to the FBI and asked that the FBI vet the kid before they allowed him aboard, but the FBI ignored his request.
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10/13/2003 9:07:58 PM PDT
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