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Special Ops boarding ship to search for Nuclear Material off the NJ shore
Fox News Alert
| 9/12/02
| Brytani
Posted on 09/12/2002 10:15:38 AM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: nuclearweapons; ship; specialops; terrorism
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To: henbane; All
Without going through the thread--
Has anyone else speculated on the stops this ship makes in the PRC + Islamic countries? Strikes me as remotely possible that IF a nuke was/is on board that some parties might have seen a chance to do some real damage to NY or Norfolk, and have the diaper heads take the blame...
Just idle speculation.
441
posted on
09/12/2002 3:59:06 PM PDT
by
L,TOWM
To: Dog Gone
This may be a false alarm. If it had been a bomb, I think there would have already been shooting by those bringing it in, or a detonation before it was ordered back out to sea There's also the possibility that this is just some components for a bomb, either full blow fission device, or "dirty bomb", not the entire bomb.
442
posted on
09/12/2002 3:59:43 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: L,TOWM; Travis McGee; Jeff Head
Read the post this is in reply to. Comments?
To: Dog Gone
That assumes, though, that the ship's crew was comprised of terrorists and they knew what was on board. It's just as possible that they are completely innocent, and even if it's a bomb, it was going to be delivered like any other cargo to someone who planned to use it at a later time. A quick look at the MSNBC story shows that the ship is a container ship. Thus a bomb could very easily have been in one of the containers, and the crew wouldn't have a clue.
Glad I don't live near a harbor, but then again the container could just as well have been loaded onto a truck bound for Denver, about as far from the Ocean as you can get.
I kind of forget, how did the middle eastern terrorists in Clancy's fictional "Sum of All Fears" get their device to into the country and to Denver? My copy is in a storage place in San Antonio, and I'm in Oklahoma City, so I can't just pull it off the shelf and check for myself.
444
posted on
09/12/2002 4:08:37 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: EternalHope
There are reports that Al Qaida has used false bottoms on ships in the past. Once in port, the bottom is opened on the outside of the ship and the contraband is taken out by diver. No one on the surface knows. Can we be tricked this easily? YES.
To: Black Agnes
Anyone heard anything about this on the news tonight? Can't believe how quiet the press is being. They wig out over West Nile and freak out over shark attacks, but this doesn't seem to rate a mention. Is that a good sign or a bad sign?
To: L,TOWM
That would be damn sneaky for the Chinese to do, and would mean total nuclear hell for them if they were found out.
But it would be a cheap easy way for them to cripple a big % of our Navy (taking out Norfolk).
To: mewzilla
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To: SamAdams76
German economy was still functioning reasonably well through 1944, despite being bombed a lot.
To: Brytani
I actually thought some nut-job would walk into an airport/mall or other public area and either blow himself up or start shooting innocents. Perhaps they were/are waiting for the "Big One" to pop off as the signal to begin sowing chaos all accross the country?
'course that happens, and there are likely to be several smoking (and glowing) holes accross Asia Minor and nearby locations.
450
posted on
09/12/2002 4:14:19 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: mewzilla
Can't believe how quiet the press is being. They wig out over West Nile They should have wigged out earlier over West Nile. As it is, they were asleep.
But there has been a very obvious lid on things lately. Remember the guy at the nerve gas facility? One moment they described him down to his clothes, the next moment - total silence.
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To: Grampa Dave
It is a safe bet that our NEST teams and Spec Op teams have been practicing just for this scenario since 9/12/01.As thousands of trucks, vehicles, and millions of people are coming northbound across our unsecured borders....
To: mikhailovich
Mine is "why was this ship stopped by the Coast Guard?" Advance tip-off ????????.... In a word, yes. See the MSNBC story, which says:
The Pentagon officials, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, said that the vessel was one of five searched upon arrival based on intelligence indicating that terrorists may be trying to bring nuclear material or a nuclear device into the United States.
455
posted on
09/12/2002 4:30:42 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: Madame Dufarge
Sounds like you had the same great decadent past while growing up like mine.
Real Vanila, syrup, real coke syrup, real cherry syrup, fresh seltzer/carbonated water, and it was nectar from the gods.
To: aristeides
Germany was a basket case from 1938 onward.They pulled off a huge con in making many belive they were an economic miracle.It was a fraud, and they looted the Treasuries of Poland, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and Romania to stay afloat.They produced nothing but what was required for a war machine.
To: Straight Vermonter
Maybe the slickmeister, the hildabeast, rangel and the schumunist, then throw in a handfull of leftist Judges, along with some ACLU flakes, ought to get on a Coast Gaurd ship, and make sure that this is not a GWB cowboy move!
You can bet on it!
To: B-Chan; Madame Dufarge
B-Chan, thanks for this great essay on Radiation for dummies, as Madame Dufarge labeled it.
This is why I had rather come to Free Republic when a story is breaking, we great essays for dummies, walks down memory lane re vanilla cokes, jokes and find out more about was or didn't happen than watching tv for an hour or all day!
My wife jokes that I had rather go to Free Republic for the news instead of Fox News, and most of the time she is right.
To: hchutch
If there is a device, and NEST can't findit, and it goes off, then what? 8 miles offshore and surface detonated? Unless it's a really big device, you get a big flash, followed by lots of steam, and some radioactive, vaporized fish, ship parts and cargo parts blowing farther out to sea. Unless the wind shifts. A quick look at the current winds shows it blowing off shore in that area.
460
posted on
09/12/2002 4:48:56 PM PDT
by
El Gato
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