Snip: Passengers on an overnight B.C. ferry were torn from their sleep Wednesday morning and thrown into a living nightmare, evacuating onto lifeboats that tossed and swayed on stormy seas for more than an hour as the Queen of the North disappeared "like the Titanic."
Ninety-nine passengers and crew were accounted for, saved by the efficiency of coast guard rescuers and the reckless heroics of a local aboriginal band. But B.C. Ferries was unable to find two passengers. George Foisy of Terrace, B.C., said his brother Gerald Foisy and Gerald's common-law wife Shirley Rosette remain unaccounted for.
Gang tried to buy radioactive bomb from Russia
Ship: Terrorists linked to an alleged al-Qa'eda gang which plotted a bombing campaign in Britain tried to buy a radioactive bomb from the Russian mafia, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. The gang was also said to have discussed attacking the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, a London nightclub, and gas and electricity facilities.
A Luton taxi driver who is said to be a member of the alleged gang was given information while in Pakistan about a "radioisotope bomb", the jury was told.