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Turkish Vessel Being Escorted off Delaware (Bomb Threat)
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Posted on 07/22/2004 10:53:05 AM PDT by nwctwx

Breaking on Fox... Turkish Vessel being escorted by Coast Guard. It had apparently been watched before the threat was relayed.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: bombscare; delaware; masterofhisdomain; some1setusupdabomb
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To: cake_crumb
So the story right now is that the ship's master(captain) informed authorites a bomb was onboard and is now refusing to allow the ship to be searched.

The captain probably got frustrated with security and made some joking comment about a bomb, and then when he realized that this would trigger an automatic (heavy) response, tried to back down and get them to leave him alone. Either way, he's got lots of 'splainin to do.

101 posted on 07/22/2004 11:16:36 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: JMK; lmailbvmbipfwedu

I remember hearing a radio show about charleston, sc having a nuclear disaster. It was extremely realistic. Maybe this was the same show. I was just thinking about it a few days ago and couldn't find anything on google. Does anyone know where I can find it?


102 posted on 07/22/2004 11:16:40 AM PDT by bankwalker (Washington needs an enema.)
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To: nwctwx

"Ships master notified authorities that a bomb was on board....Captain refusing search."

I don't quite follow this. The ship's master notifies about the bomb, but the captain won't allow a search.


103 posted on 07/22/2004 11:17:28 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: appalachian_dweller
If the captain refuses a search, then send the vessel to Davy Jones's locker! arrrgh..


104 posted on 07/22/2004 11:17:36 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: marsh-mellow

Any time, MM!


105 posted on 07/22/2004 11:17:36 AM PDT by livius
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To: Phantom Lord

>>Boatload of Italian tiles?

THose must've some tiles, the glow in the dark variety.

The Palermo, IIRC. Gone into the memoryhole.


106 posted on 07/22/2004 11:17:49 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Voltage

Jimmah Carter must be so proud.


107 posted on 07/22/2004 11:18:39 AM PDT by ICX (This tagline was inadvertently removed from the National Archives.)
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To: Dog

Actually the pilot comes on board out in the ocean, just outside Delaware Bay, and a good 125 miles away from Philadelphia.

One thing I think many people caught up in "terror ship" hype aren't aware of is that every tanker and freighter that enters a US port is guided there by an American pilot who comes on board and takes over, and that these pilots typically get on the ship quite a long way from any ports or cities.

Conceivable that the "pilot" was confused with "ship's master" somehow.


108 posted on 07/22/2004 11:18:53 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: 4everontheRight
This particular vessel is well known to authorities and its prior movements had been tracked, senior Defense officials said.

Brett Bair said they had been tracking this ship..

109 posted on 07/22/2004 11:19:05 AM PDT by Dog (EVERYONE, Please check your socks for inadvertent documents.)
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To: 4everontheRight
"The information was revealed after the captain refused to have portions of the ship searched by the Coast Guard."

Um...so basically, he told them they couldn't search his ship for contraband because there was a bomb onboard? Pfffft.

110 posted on 07/22/2004 11:19:25 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Bahbah

News flash: Authorities are now saying that if anything suspicious is found on the ship, it has no possible connection to terrorism.


111 posted on 07/22/2004 11:19:25 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: Dog
I wish I knew what all that meant!
112 posted on 07/22/2004 11:19:45 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (The Liberal Media - the world's vast left wing conspiracy - GW'04 - Rice'08)
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To: lula

Big time refining facilities in the Delaware valley.


113 posted on 07/22/2004 11:19:46 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: looney tune

master steers the boat, captain signs the checks...


114 posted on 07/22/2004 11:20:21 AM PDT by RaceBannon (God Bless Ronald Reagan, and may America Bless God!)
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To: Strategerist

Any more info on how this is handled? Do they just bring one American on board and then let him pilot the thing into the port? I'm thinking a small group of terrorists could easily overpower one guy...might make more sense to send a small team of armed guards to accompany the pilot, eh?


115 posted on 07/22/2004 11:20:56 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: johnfrink
"Either way, he's got lots of 'splainin to do."

He sure does.

116 posted on 07/22/2004 11:21:04 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Strategerist

That's what I'm thinking, too. The pilot may have seen or heard something and reported it.

Probably just a case of some journalist saying "... but if I put 'pilot', my stupid readers will get confused because everyone knows ships don't have pilots. Planes do..."


118 posted on 07/22/2004 11:21:14 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: kinghorse

Along with three commercial nuclear reactors, right on the river!


119 posted on 07/22/2004 11:21:39 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: myself6

that was the ships PILOT, the guy who knew where the rocks and shoals were and guided the ship in.


120 posted on 07/22/2004 11:22:11 AM PDT by RaceBannon (God Bless Ronald Reagan, and may America Bless God!)
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