I can see this. Don't think I'll be hanging out on any cruise ships.
To: Sleeping Beauty
They could easily set up a travel agency and get a thousand naive college kids on Spring Break to be taken hostage.
To: Sleeping Beauty
What’s old is new, again (Barbary Pirates circa. 18th & early 19th centuries). That’s where the line “to the shores of Tripoli” came from in the Marine Corps Hymn.
http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria18_1.htm
3 posted on
05/21/2007 1:11:39 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
To: Sleeping Beauty
The USS Cole attack proved the concept.
4 posted on
05/21/2007 1:21:50 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder." --Frederic Bastiat)
To: Sleeping Beauty
Dammit I wish somebody would invent satellites so we could track these ships /s
7 posted on
05/21/2007 1:28:37 PM PDT by
txhurl
To: Sleeping Beauty
Of all Al Qaeda schemes I would think this would be the easiest to defend against.
Sink known Al Qaeda ships, arm merchant ships and/or have military ships in likely areas. The Somalia coast for instance.
It’s not like they can sneak up with any vigilance.
9 posted on
05/21/2007 2:00:30 PM PDT by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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