Posted on 05/19/2004 4:12:46 PM PDT by John Jorsett
agreed, he seems like he should be writing for some grocery line checkout newspaper. Either that or everytime on tv he just blurt out something crazy and hopes that eventually it will happen to make it look like he knew about it all along.
"The Turks were particularly concerned, because if the Baltic Sky had detonated its explosives under the Bosphorous bridge, the bridge would have come down and blocked the busiest shipping channel in the world (with 30 percent more ship traffic than the Straights of Malacca.)
If memory serves me correct, the Comoros Islands were the destination point for terrorists fleeing from Afghanistan through Pakistan and then by boat when we first went into Afghanistan. ( I think another missing ship turned up there as well)
Also, it has been a fear for many years now that they would try to blow something up in the shipping channels which would be disastrous either in the Malacca Straits, the canals or Bosphorous as noted above.
I don't think the Islamists are out to halt trade so much as they are want to kill as many of us infidels as possible. A seaborne attack will be on a major US port or one of a US ally using an oil tanker or a vessel filled with noxious chemicals or explosives.
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