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 ...
See my post 32. The Port worker said 2 containers.
Anything new from the feed?
The bigger question is WHY are they shipping oily rags? Pakistan must not have any washing machines? Talk about sending the laundry out!
I don't think dogs are trained to "smell" nuclear weapons.
Agreed. All we know is that there's a story, and a media who value being first much more than they value being accurate.
Nuclear weapons require conventional explosives to detonate.
I'm clueless on how to make a nuclear bomb but doesn't it need an explosive charge of some sort to make it start exploding?
In checking, Pakistan is one of the countries that manufactures rags for industrial and other uses. They ship them all over the world.
There is no audio, just some choppy video from a helicopter.
They manufacture oily rags? Wouldn't making just regular rags suffice?
CNN showing 2 China Shipping containers opened at evacuated port, and about 50 Crown Victorias parked with people talking
SEATTLE - The Port of Seattle set up a perimeter of nearly half a mile around one of its terminals Wednesday after bomb-sniffing dogs indicated that a container recently unloaded off a ship could contain explosives.
Dozens of non-essential personnel were evacuated from Terminal 18, on Harbor Island south of downtown Seattle, a Port of Seattle spokesman said. A bomb squad was set to examine the container to determine its contents.
"There was a suspect container, two of them, taken off the ship because there were questions about the manifest," said port spokesman David Schaefer. "The bomb-sniffing dogs did what bomb-sniffing dogs do, and it caused us to be worried there might be explosives."
The Seattle P-I reports the container was supposed to hold oily rags but inspectors found objects that were not on the inventory. U.S. Customs and Border Protection then sent in its bomb team.
A 300-yard safety zone has been established around the terminal.
The origin of the ship that delivered the container was not immediately known. But a worker at the terminal reported to the P-I that the container might have been from Pakistan.
Herald Ugles, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19, said about 75 workers were ordered to evacuate the terminal, which is operated by cargo company SSA Marine.
He said workers had returned to the dispatch hall where they were awaiting more information. He said there was not a vessel today at the terminal.
SSA Marine officials were at the site monitoring the situation but the company had no information to release yet, a company representative said.
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Ping! Fun stuff at the port today.
I think they left the last part of the word off. Should have been oily ragHEADS.
When I worked as an auto mechanic, those neat red rags we all used were either called grease rags or oil rags.
Minor fact: The red rags use a dye that is like litmus paper. When they contact battery acid, they turn blue. It's a very useful thing.
They're manufactured somewhere. Pakistan is a good bet.
Oil rags. Not Oily rags. Nobody would ship oily rags.
They would be able to smell the initiator. Something has to bring the material to critical mass.
Um, but didn't Hillary say there was no security at the ports?
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