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 ...
Hmm. Oily rags - assuming they are 100 % cotton and beigfrom Pakistan that's most likely- could be cleaned and then converted into a product called rag artist's paper. It's the premium lignin free museum quality paper used by watercolorists and it is considerably more expensive than the stuff made from trees. I don't know who is on the receiving end of the shipment but if it's apaper company that would explain it.
Of course, you'd think it would be cheaper to have the Pakistanis clean the fabric and make the paper too, but I don't know of any Pakistani art papers. Indian art paper, yes.
I would think oily rags would be a huge fire hazard to take aboard a ship, though.
Or since the seals were already broken, I would guess the containers contents ae less important to the shipper than what might be missing from the containers.
They could be used as packing material for illegal aliens to hide behind.
Oily rags would be useful as packing material for products that might rust since they would prevent damage from moisture problems.
See my post #77. I think I've figured out what they would be for.
the new- OJ/Natalie circus....
Yes, about that. Procedures need to be followed, and they take a little time.
Gotcha! thanks!!
I'm gonna steal you're tagline - hope you don't mind...
I can see it out my window. I'm impressed with how quickly FR picked it up. I was waiting to see how long it would take.
Good grief, I think all three news channels just copy each other. They are all on this JB Ramsey!!!!
What some government workers will not do to get an upgrade on their vehicle fleet......"Hey Chuck, there is a container that might 'splode. Go park all the Crown Vic's around it".
FINALLY on Fox!!
ON FOX NOW!!!!!!!!
I was just trying to catch the update on Komo, and wouldn't you know that's when my phone would ring? I completely missed it. Grrr.
A5 AIR9 B2 E10 HAZVAN L1 STAF10 DEP1 M10 M44 B7 E36
seattle fire units assigned
Well if you blinked you missed it...back the JB Ramsey!! OMG!!!
What, did they give it ten seconds? We just flipped on Fox and there's a pic of JonBenet.
Never Mind - - - FOX is back to the Ramsey case before I could blink.
FEBRUARY 2003 : (KARACHI, PAKISTAN : AL QAEDA'S KSM MEETS WITH UZAIR & SAIFULLAH PARACHAS TO MAKE DEAL FOR ACCESS TO IMG SHIPPING CONTAINERS ; MARITIME SECURITY / PORT SECURITY / RAG TRADE PLOT) Days before he was captured in Pakistan in March, suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed met in Karachi with the owner of a W. 35th St., [NY] clothing importing company and his son, law enforcement sources said. Al Qaeda's No. 3 man offered to invest $200,000 in International Management Group in exchange, federal authorities now believe, for access to IMG's Port Newark-bound shipping containers, sources say. [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed "is obsessed with attacking the United States, and New York has always been at the top of the list for Al Qaeda," said one law enforcement source. After learning of the plot, federal authorities began monitoring IMG's containers, though sources said no weapons were found in them. -- "Rag trade terror plot: Al Qaeda sought Garment Center tie," by GREG B. SMITH, New York Daily News, August 22, 2003
If they were only planning to hit gas stations they wouldn't need access to shipping containers from IMG.
NOVEMBER 2005 Wednesday : (UZAIR PARACHA GOES ON TRIAL - See AL QAIDA, BALTIMORE CELL, WMD, CHEMICAL PLOT, MAJID KHAN / RAG TRADE PLOT) NEW YORK - A Pakistani man went on trial Wednesday on charges alleging he agreed to help an al-Qaida operative planning a chemical attack against Americans sneak into the United States. Uzair Paracha, 25, is accused of agreeing to support the plot during meetings with two al-Qaida operatives and his father [Saifullah Paracha], a businessman held at Guantanamo Bay.
"This trial is about the defendant's role in helping al-Qaida penetrate this country and attack the United States from within its own borders," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Bruce said in his opening statement. Bruce said Paracha was trying to help Majid Khan, an al-Qaida member who was granted U.S. asylum and living in Baltimore. Khan needed Paracha's help to return after leaving the country improperly to go to Pakistan, Bruce said.
The prosecutor said Paracha made deposits into a bank account in [Majid] Khan's name to make it appear he was in the U.S. and posed as Khan to try to obtain an immigration document. Khan and the other al-Qaida operative are presumed to be in U.S. custody overseas, though the U.S. government has refused to acknowledge it.
On Wednesday, Bruce repeatedly referred to a planned chemical attack by [Majid] Khan but never described the plot or when and where it would occur. Prosecutors have said Paracha admitted he believed that Khan was an al-Qaida operative and that by helping Khan he was assisting al-Qaida.
Paracha lawyer Edward Wilford told jurors Wednesday the government's claims stemmed from a false confession Paracha gave after he was subjected to 72 hours of interrogation without being told he could consult a lawyer. "At no point did Uzair Paracha agree to help al-Qaida do anything," Wilford said. ------- "Prosecutor: Pakistani sought to aid terror (NY trial)," by Larry Neumeister - ap, AP on Yahoo, 11/09/05
This bunch is also tied to the 'wanted' Dr. Alafia Siddiqui.
10 posted on 07/20/2006 9:36:46 PM PDT by piasa
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