Letter confirms suspicions of smuggling on LNG ships
April 29, 2004
Federal authorities have suspected since 1995 that illegal aliens from Algeria were sneaking into the United States aboard liquefied natural gas tanker ships, according to a newly re leased U.S. Department of Homeland Security document.
In May 2001, officers from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies boarded an Algerian liquefied natural gas tanker arriving in Boston and discovered a large cache of U.S. currency and illegal drugs, according to the April 15 letter from Homeland Security to U.S. Rep Ed Markey, D-Mass.
The letter was written in response to Markey's inquiries concerning allegations in former U.S. terrorism chief Richard Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies." In his book, published this year, Clarke claimed that federal officials knew prior to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that "al-Qaida operatives had been infiltrat ing Boston by coming in on liquid natural gas tankers from Algeria."
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