Officials probe Iraqi crew on tanker in Delaware Bay

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 3-20-2003 | By Joseph Gambardello

[dommie]

Port officials are trying to determine what to do with several Iraqi crewmen aboard an Arab oil tanker anchored in the Delaware Bay.

The Iraqis are part of the crew of the Aldawha, which is registered in Qatar and owned by the Arab Maritime Petroleum Co.

Details are sketchy but Senior Chief Tod Lyons of the Coast Guard's Fifth District press office in Portsmouth, Va., confirmed an investigation was underway, but said no decision had been made about what to do with the Iraqis.

[Conspiracy Guy]

When the probe them they need to use a whaler's harpoon.

[Oorang]

Well, CIA headquarters is just a hop, skip and jump away. Cetainly they will know what to do with them.

[Unknown Freeper]

In the Delaware Bay..... Gee on one side is Philadelphia. On the other is the NJ Turnpike which goes north to Manhattan or south to DC. I sure hope somebody with a clue is running the investigation and will stop these guys.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Port officials are trying to determine what to do with several Iraqi crewmen aboard an Arab oil tanker anchored in the Delaware Bay.

"Bend over and I'll show you." ~ Clark Griswold

[Quix]

Keep the ship 300 miles off shore!!!

Sheesh!

What with all the warnings about such!!!

crazy.

[leadpenny]

Plotting the locations of our shore batteries.

Don't tell me we don't have any shore batteries.

[geedee]

Port officials are trying to determine what to do with several Iraqi crewmen aboard an Arab oil tanker anchored in the Delaware Bay.

[dommie]

how do you post pics?

[error99]

"...Officials probe Iraqi crew on tanker ...>
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I hope they probe them just like I got probed
when they were checking me for colon polyps.

[geedee]

Here's a good Beginner's guide to HTML.

But I'll send you a quick course via FReepmail to help just with images.

[Dog]

WTF......I am just miles from the Delaware Bay...in Jersey.....oh jeesh!

[jiggyboy]

Plenty of refineries, lots of chemical factories in NJ, etc...

[blam]

Are they crew members of a ship? That wouldn't be so unusual.

[StriperSniper]

I am just miles from the Delaware Bay

Now you just keep an eye on them for us, don't let them mess with the bass on their way to spawn.

;-)

[meema]

I'm with you! Is there some kind of nut running the show there???

[Dog]

And near the mouth of the Delaware Bay.....is the Hope and Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plants...

This is a little to close for confront.

[Unknown Freeper]

Dog, I had thought about pinging you to this thread. I couldn't remember if Salem still were operating. I don't think people understand how serious this could be. The Delaware Bay and River are very close to too many things.

[Quix]

I just think . . . NYC

OBVIOUS TARGET.

DECLARED TARGET.

We've been dealing with terrorist nuke threats for at least 15-20 years.

There's umpteen sources including former Soviet defectors about 'suitcase' nukes--maybe even a 100 or so being loose on the open market amidst millions of Arab oil money buyers.

Al Qaeda AND Iraq AND Hammas have threatened with the most ominous tones and wordings.

We've had intel about such a ship being used.

We start the war.

And low and behold, such a ship shows up near NYC with Iraqi crew.

Is there anything wrong with this picture? DUH!?!

[Quix]

I think I'd want to mop every square inch of that ship--every cubic inch--if I had to do it with the Iraq's bodies. I'd certainly want to inspect all the holds, storage tanks, fuel tanks etc IN ADDITION TO all the cargo.
. . . BEFORE letting them closer than 300 miles.