Posted on 08/16/2006 1:55:20 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Bomb squads are responding to Terminal 18 on Seattle's waterfront after a canine bomb team found possible explosives in a container, the Coast Guard said this afternoon.~ snip ~
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
Ya know, the knee-jerk cut-n-paste cynical phrases really get old.
They catch and search a suspected container and you are claiming that this illustrates that ports aren't secure? Yes, the Democrat sounbite is that 95% containers don't get physically opened and inspected, but that doesn't mean they aren't run through various detectors, sniffers, etc. And it sounds like this shipped may have fit a profile, gotten extra scrutiny (apparently they opened and inspected at least one based on an official's suspicions.)
All this suggests that far more is going on in dealing with imported containers than what a website spectator knows about.
Naw, no big deal, everyone has done that at one time or another here.
Thanks, Streaming Audio now...
Well I am picking up some more ammo today. I bought the potassium iodine pills Monday. I think I pretty much have everything else covered.
As for the the Tracfone, it will undoubtedly be more reliable in the event of an attack do to the fact it's a dual or tri-mode phone, which is not tethered to a paticular carrier. Simply put, the Tracphone has the largest coverage area, and most extensive roaming capabilities or any phone.
Communications will be as if not more important than ammunition in the event of an attack, as the terrorists surely know.
No, no, no!
This is obviously just more fear-mongering organized by Bushitlerburton to distract us from... uhm... something or other...
Oops. Sorry. Wrong chat board.
Unless you are the available guy with the cutting charges. It got the job done, nobody was hurt, and likely pretty cool to watch.
They would be dropping off cargo at Hong Kong & picking up cargo for Pakistan and other ports. They drop the cargo off at those ports and pick up cargo to go back to Hong Kong and ports East.
On the trans Pacific ships I sailed on we hit most of the ports twice.
They cleaned the AK47s with the rags after they had been stored in oil, and the rags contained the residue of gun poder, I'll bet.
poder = powder
Scented rags to test our response?
I'm wondering if the dog alerted on residue inadvertently left on the rags or in the container.
I wonder what would happen if seattle or any other american city got 20 bomb calls at the same time? I wonder how a city would handle it.
Waste shipment bound for a cement kiln?
HUH?! There's a market for oily rags? Sheesh.
spontaneous combustion ping
Why stop at 20? 1000 untraceable cell phones could create a lot of system overload.
Yeah...and she probably had just revamped her show for today once already, since they were putting her on talking about her flight from London and then the incident on the London flight today...bet she's hopping now having changed directions again to cover Jon Benet! LOL!
A lot of shipping containers are sent back to Asia from the US full of recycled paper (the paper you pay your municipality to pick up at the curb, they in turn sell for recycling)
Far be it from me to be the grammar or typo police, but your typo gave me a good laugh.
"This is obviously just more fear-mongering organized by Bushitlerburton to distract us from... uhm... something or other..."
"Oops. Sorry. Wrong chat board."
Actually the Dems would use your statement on any thread. They chant this BS in response to EVERYTHING!!! I'm e-arguing with a local lib and he can't go three days without mentioning his fear of Bushco's Rovian fear tactics. I told him he seems to have an obsessive fear of fear itself. He HATES that. Then tells me that I'm hateful and that that's very bad. While he hates and fears neocons and Christian fundamentalists, but not terrorists. I think I'll give him a mirror for Christmas with a big 'W' on it. LOL
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