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Still working on Sean's #3060 message.

Google search for:

1425 maritime affairs in the Gulf of Mexico and around Cuba

You will need to expand this on the last page.

Google for:

maritime affairs in the Gulf of Mexico and around Cuba

Latin America Data Base (real news)

http://ladb.unm.edu

http://ladb.unm.edu/pubs/headlines/

The next one ties in with our talk about food shortages in Cuba, it is so long, that I kinda spot read it and have not attempted to catch it all.

It is the September 2003 news of Cuba and should be read, it is all on one page and marked in sections.

Sept. 12 - with Ration Book, allows 5 eggs per month
Sept. 20 -Cuba's future ties with the Global South, Africa, or Asia.
Sept. 24 - How education is determined (MUST READ).

Part 2:

Sept. 2 - No matches available, except black market

Security:

Sept. 15 - China visits to "Deepen Military Ties"
Sept. 21 - Thousands of Cubans take part in "Defense Exercises".

Terrorism:
All worth reading.

OK, now for fun:

Giant Sea Creature

http://www.brownmarine.com/story06.htm

For news........

http://www.worldnewsreview.com

Start at http://www.trackingthethreat.com

current threat.

click on Al Qaeda Naval Operations

-or-

Purchase the current issue of Soldier of Fortune Magazine. I just got mine from Barnes & Noble. Read Gordon Thomas' article on P-18 "The Queen in Peril On The Seas."

Slightly more detail than what is in the tracking the threat website.

Of course NEIN also has lots of info in this regard as well. Two of us were on scene where the two dead divers washed up (Hudson R. and Dania Beach, FL).

I put those search terms in the shipanalysis.com search engine. This catches my eye #1 - the divers and #2 - a decomposed body was also just found in NYC East River.

Look at this:

Body of missing Panhandle fisherman recovered from Gulf

Associated Press

MOBILE, Ala. - A decomposed body recovered from the Gulf of Mexico was identified Saturday as a missing Florida fisherman.

Don Jones, of Pensacola, has been missing since Feb. 23 when his commercial fishing boat, the Sarah B, disappeared during a storm about 45 miles south of Dauphin Island.

His body was recovered Friday from the water about 20 miles southeast of Dauphin Island. The medical examiner says Jones died of hypothermia and drowning.

His crew member, Ida Fitzpatrick, 45, also of Pensacola, was still missing.

The Sarah B was owned by Parker Seafood Co. in Perdido Key west of Pensacola. Company owner Mike Parker said Friday that authorities have told him very little

Using some of those search terms on ShipAnalysis.com search engine returned this:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aHwiBmumzO68&refer=asia

Asia

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China Close to Sale of 2nd Nuclear Plant to Pakistan, FT Says

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- China is close to selling a second nuclear power plant to Pakistan after they agreed on the technical details for the sale in talks in Beijing last week, the Financial Times reported on its Web site.

The 300-megawatt plant, worth $600 million to $700 million, would be built at Chashma, south of Islamabad, beside the first nuclear power plant China supplied in 1999, the FT said. Pervez Butt, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, led the delegation that completed the agreement last week, it said.

The deal comes after revelations that Pakistani scientists and nuclear officials, led by Abdul Qadeer Khan, sold nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and possibly North Korea, the FT said. Pakistani officials said safeguards for the two reactors at Chashma would ensure they were used only for generating electricity, it said.

China is Pakistan's most reliable supplier of defense equipment, with other projects including the development of the JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft and a port at Gwadar.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Jonathan Underhill in Wellington at junderhill@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor of this story:
Peter Vercoe at pvercoe@bloomberg.net.