Special Ops boarding ship to search for Nuclear Material off the NJ shore

Fox News Alert | 9/12/02 | Brytani

[Brytani]

Fox News just broke in with an alert. Special Op's are now searching a Liberian flagged ship 8 miles off the coast of NJ looking for nuclear material. More information to follow.

[Brytani]

I saw Lott, he did not call for an immediate vote on going after Iraq in front of the full senate unless Fox News cut off that part of his news conference. Granted, Lott was more forceful then he's been in recent months on this issue but still fell short of forcing a vote on the Senate floor.

I did however catch Daschle STILL saying that Bush has not fully made the case for attacking Iraq and questions still lingered.

[Nouge]

My biggest question is will we find out about it if it is a real threat...

[EternalHope]

The nice thing about nuclear material is that you can sense it's presence from a long way away.

Not if it is shielded. (A common misconception is that nukes can be detected from long distance, such as from space. If they could, we would have no problem protecting ourselves.)

The radioactivity in this ship was picked up a couple of days ago by inspectors after they had boarded the ship. It was then ordered back to sea for further investigation.

[hchutch]

Nuclear Emergency Search Team?

Govno, this is starting to look VERY serious.

[The Vast Right Wing]

I don't care who it points at, if in fact there is radioactive material on that ship (and I don't mean X42's used condoms) I want a declaration of war on Iraq within a week. We can't continue to pussy-foot around. Like Wolfowitz said, we need to end states that sponsor terrorism.

[Black Agnes]

NEST teams were downtown nyc on 9/11/01 too. They're not usually called out unless it's serious.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Very series indeed.

[antivenom]

?? Sin-a-turd ???

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Someone is going to ask; were you just about to get in the shower?

[sauropod]

Yuppers. 'Pod

[Dog]

Linda Vester.....said NEST Team.....that was what got my attention

[The Vast Right Wing]

As GWB said this morning, Saddam has made the case for regime change.

[thesharkboy]

If Trent Lott wasn't such a capon...

LOL. That's a good one.

[Brytani]

One bit of information, Fox News is not interviewing Scott Ritter and at the beginning, Ritter denied that he ever said Saddam doesn't have chemical/nuclear/bio weapons. Seems Ritter graduated from the Daschle School of Double Speak. Or else he's going for another 400k payment.

If anyone is on a news station that is giving more information on the ship currently being searched, please post it.

[Cagey]

BTTT

[Poohbah]

It VEY series! :o)

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I don't care who it points at

Me either, but it would be SO nice to see the squirming by the lefties when we give them the proof they were whining we did not have. This is a dangerous world, and it is good to see others wake up to that fact.

[Hatteras]

This type of "event" leads me to believe that there might have been a few plans for attacks yesterday that were squelched or undermined by our intelligence forces. We just won't here any details about them for a few months or even years.

[agunther]

What does N.E.S.T. stand for. What does it mean?

[The Vast Right Wing]

?? Sin-a-turd ???

Thanks for correcting my spelling!!