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A North Korean ship carrying at least 12 hidden Scud missiles and bound for Yemen has been stopped in the Arabian Sea, U.S. officials said December 10, 2002. The discovery could be politically explosive. North Korea recently acknowledged it has an active nuclear weapons program in violation of various agreements. Yemen is a Middle Eastern nation that is home to fractious tribes and Islamic extremists. (MapInfo, NASA-Visible Earth/Reuters Graphic)

1 posted on 12/11/2002 4:33:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
85 drums of "chemicals"...could be fuel, could be oxidizer, could be legitimate stuff. Or...

}:-)4
2 posted on 12/11/2002 4:40:01 AM PST by Moose4
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
unidentified site in the Middle East.

LOL. Look where the ship was headed. Unidentified, my foot.

And if everything was perfectly legal and above board, why all the bags of cement?

Someone's got a lot of 'splainin' to do.

5 posted on 12/11/2002 5:35:41 AM PST by randita
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The So San was intercepted at dawn on Monday after the captain of the Spanish frigate "Navarra" ordered it to stop its engines. The Spanish ship fired warning shots when the San So refused to stop and speeded up.

Spanish special forces boarded and took control of the ship without injuries, Trillo said.

Woohoo! "!El tirón a y prepara para estar abordar!" Bravo Zulu, guys!

Navarra is an U.S. design Perry class frigate, called the Santa Maria class. She entered service in the Armada in 1994.


7 posted on 12/11/2002 7:18:47 AM PST by Chemist_Geek
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