U.S. fears terrorist abuse of merchant mariner IDs
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8521275
GAO: Lack of security clearances jeopardizes maritime security
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0505/051705c1.htm
Seaports still seen vulnerable to attacks
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/bal-te.port18may18,0,5850351.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
Middle Eastern leader lands at Pease
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/05182005/news/42852.htm
(snip)Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the head of state and of the royal family of Qatar, passed through Portsmouth Tuesday, landing at the airport on his way to Kennebunkport, Maine, for a visit with George Herbert Walker Bush at the former president’s home.
Military wife confronted - was her fear 'unreasonable'?
(snippet)Picture a young woman going about her daily errands. She leaves a local business, crosses the parking lot to her vehicle, unlocks it and slips in, but suddenly she can't close the door. A man has slipped up the side of her vehicle and shoved a Bible into the doorjamb to prevent her from closing the door. Obviously startled, she looks at this man who has noticed her husband's dogtags hanging from her rearview mirror. He asks her if they are hers. Her apprehension grows as this man speaks with a heavy Middle-Eastern accent. She tells him they belong to her husband. He glares at her, "He has killed people in my country" and starts mumbling to her in a foreign language. She is now terrified because she can't close the door and leave and she can't exit her car without hitting him with her door. She tries to squeeze out and he suddenly chucks the Bible at her, striking her saying "You're going to need that."
She flees into a nearby business and calls the local police. They arrive, take her statement (she's shaking and crying so bad she can hardly sign the paperwork), locate and arrest the man. They cannot question him because he refuses to even say he understands his Miranda rights.
He is currently in custody and other agencies are being called in.
He obviously targeted this woman because of her connection to the US military and this happened yesterday.
http://darleen.redstate.org/story/2005/5/17/21361/2935
Thanks for all the links Velveeta.