[kinghorse]

I shudder to think...

[Poohbah]

I seem to recall that the FBI busted some folks in 1979 or 1980--they were planning to hijack the USS Hawkbill, SSN-666, lob a SUBROC at a major US harbor, and then sell the boat to an unidentified foreign power.

[vannrox]

From www.terroristwatch.com...

In April of 1997, in an extremely sophisticated operation developed over a period of many years, members of the intelligence branch of the Iranian army, Usama bin Laden and senior members of the lethal international terrorist organization al Qai'da successfully smuggled a submarine containing several nuclear bombs into the US.


An early element of this operation began with the purchase of a large piece of river-front property along the Willamette river in what used to be a pre-colonial Russian community called New Era., Oregon. I grew up in that area, but I had never associated that long-ago abandoned community with Hitler's infamous 1936 World Olympics speech when he said, " I hereby declare a New Era with the beginning of these Olympic Games."


There was an old cedar shake mill on this land, replete with a large mill pond used to park and sort large rafts of cedar logs brought down the Willamette River. After purchasing this land, they then proceeded to fill in that small lake, surreptitiously bringing in two ocean-going barges during the night, sinking them, and covering them up. A man I knew only as Gary Tour hinted that they had received a grant from the State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to pay for the costs. Their next step was to begin the long-term task of turning these barges into submarine bays, complete with two levels of living quarters, enough room to house a small village. While I was living there they brought in over a dozen truckloads of furniture which mysteriously disappeared. They had constructed, and concealed with exceptional skill, a freight elevator capable of raising and lowering furniture for their living quarters, as well as vehicles such as small pickup trucks.


Al Qai'da had purchased a tug company, with three large ocean-going tugboats, and included with their purchase were contracts for dredging the Willamette and Columbia rivers, and hauling in limestone and other products from Canada. When all of their interrelated tasks and their usual plethora of backup plans were in place an Iranian Submarine carrying a number of nuclear bombs began its long journey to the US. They had also constructed a mobile sub bay also constructed from an ocean barge, and this was used to conceal the submarine during transit into US waters. After entering US territory they proceeded up the Columbia River, where they likely paused at Pier # 4, the International Port of Portland, Oregon. Being at the confluence of the Columbia River and the Willamette Rivers, they then had only to navigate up the Willamette River from Portland 20 miles to New Era, where they had built their huge submarine bay.


I have knowledge of the arrival of this submarine due to the fact that my family and I lived in a mobile home which sat above the submarine bay, and although we were not at the time aware of the cause of the roaring in the water, (defective muffler on the diesel sub) nor of the reason for the intense shaking of the mobile home, (the gates of the underwater sub bay being raised) we were there when the submarine arrived. Those readers who have faced an extreme life-threatening situation before will have an idea of what this was like.


Although the senior members of the US Government and the intelligence community understandably declined to publicize these events, the highly trained foreign agents described herein came within a heartbeat of succeeding in their plan to cause the destruction of Washington DC and New York City, the political and financial hubs of the US; and I suspect as well CENTCOM and NORAD. CENTCOM is the acronym for Central Command, responsible for the protection of US interests in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia. The Commander in Chief NORAD (CINCNORAD) is responsible to the governments of both Canada and the United States for the aerospace defense of North America.


The principals in this operation included the upper level members of al Qai'da, composed of: Usama bin Laden, Djamel Beghal, until his recent arrest in U.A.E., director of European terrorist operations; Soubhi Mahmoud Fyad, a high ranking member of Hezbollah, the terrorist group created in 1984 by the Iranian military intelligence service that analysts consider to be a front for that agency; Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's military commander, founder and head of al-Jihad, the Egyptian terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat and for the live dismemberment and subsequent murder of 65 mostly Swedish tourists at Luxor, Egypt in 1995; Damien Hachey, also known as Yahya Ayyash, the former military commander of Hamas and the former prophet, power and brains behind al Qai'da, and Abu Zubaydah, al Qai'da's coordinator of European Operations..


The 'Charter of Hamas', the philosophical basis for Islamic fundamentalism and their terrorist activities, allows for the 'existence' of religions other than fundamentalist Islam, 'but only if under the umbrella of (their warped interpretation) of Islam. I came to know the top ranking members of al Qai'da, Hezbollah, Hamas, al Jihad and al-Gaama al-Islamiya organizations more thoroughly than I would have preferred, and I assure you that although the supreme prophet of the operation is now dead, they came extremely close to succeeding, and they will most certainly try again.


If you are concerned about your loved ones, your family, and our country, the United States of America, become aware of the inherent power cloaked within the unbridled hatred these Islamic fundamentalist zealots hold towards the free and enlightened culture of Western society. This power is lethally directed against you and I, and towards our society; not only through increasingly frequent large-scale 'terrorist acts' against American institutions abroad; it now also directed with lethal force against innocent Americans on our own soil; men, women and children alike, and all undertaken with absolute celebratory delight.