[Sean Osborne Lomax]

Not specifically related to the reported deaths and sightings of recent days, but more of a background of information concerning Al Qaeda "Naval Operations".

"Concerns that Al-Qaeda had opened up a new front in its terror campaign emerged when a US spy plane discovered scores of acoustic sea mines had disappeared from a high-security naval base in North Korea. US intelligence services believe the mines may be aboard an armada of 28 terror ships which Osama bin Laden's organisation has assembled over the past year. The mines are fitted with homing devices which allow them to zero in on massive targets like the 150,000-tonne Queen Mary 2."

Or Aircraft carriers and other large ships.

And then there's this...

"U.S. officials say they are on alert for signs that al Qaeda would use exotic craft to launch underwater attacks -- small submarines and "human torpedoes," underwater motor-propelled sleds that divers use. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger terrorist movement has been developing such equipment for years, said Tanner Campbell, vice president of the private Maritime Intelligence Group, which consults for shipping interests.

Captured al Qaeda operative Omar al-Faruq has told interrogators that he planned scuba attacks on U.S. warships in Indonesia, Campbell said. Apparently as a result of his confessions, U.S. officials recently visited hundreds of scuba shops nationwide asking about suspicious visitors."

The above is front a Washington Post report which is no longer linked.

It looks like they've brought such operations a whole lot closer to our shores.

[jerseygirl]

I'd love to know what the cause of death was for the 2 divers. I've been wondering if: 1.) they dove too deeply (to lay the mine or whatever) and surfaced too quickly or 2.) possibly whatever they were hauling down there killed them.

[JustPiper]

"human torpedoes,"

Journalistic questions: How? What? Where?