Posted on 01/08/2007 11:38:45 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Breaking..suspicious device at port of miami..
...and the conspiracy theorists would have more to go on.
As it is, don't forget a plane hit the Pentagon and also disintegrated in rural PA.
You are right.
LOL that's a good one!
News of the Day:
Downtown Austin reopens after dead birds found
Coast Guard: Explosives detected at Port of Miami
Plume of smoke causes concern in Sugar Land
Gas-like odor permeates parts of New York City
Nothing to see here, move along now...
sw
Well........
I'm pretty sure it was less than a pound of plastic explosives used in the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing and the tests of the "shoe bomb" type device on a grounded and out of commission 747 in the "airplane graveyard" showed that only a few ounces could destroy an airplane. The thing is Airplanes in flight will rip themselves apart with very little loss of structural integrity due to the stresses involved, if it's in the right place. Also, regardless of the amount, it wasn't C4 that was used in Lockerbie, it was Semtex, so comparisons are going to be off in any event. However, plastique is plastique and they all go boom and should all be taken seriously.
A cruise ship is a different type of beast built in an entirely different manner. Though a pound of C4 ("enough to destroy a diesel locomotive," according to things I've seen) would damage a cruise ship and could, if it was placed in exactly the right place, do considerable, even fatal damage to a ship of this size, it's far more likely that any such device would be used to terrorize, not actually sink the ship. The scariest thing would be if such a device could be placed where it would start a serious fire. Fire is the biggest risk to a cruise ship under most circumstances.
I don't know if you remember the ship that had a serious fire in their laundry within sight of the port of Miami a few years ago. It was originally a relatively small fire but it ended up gutting about 10% of the ship and threatening the engine room (and lots more damage) before they could get it contained.
As I typed this the cable news folks have said that the "officials" are saying it was all about nothing (move along, move along, nothing to see here), even though they ended up blowing the thing up themselves with their own detonators.
In my mind this and the incident yesterday are clearly meant as tests of security at this port by the jihadists, to see what they can get away with. This is a bad sign.
Likely because the initial cloud of the released chemical has dissipated, but they are being cautious because the leaking (or appears to now be formerly leaking) tanker truck is still being hosed down. The initial threat is over, but better to get the kids out of there in case something goes wrong and there is a later problem with that truck. That would be my guess on why any school might be let out versus a shelter in place.
Note how the tape of the initial release cloud (which appears to have been blown away and can't be seen now) showed that it was already gone from the tank truck at the plant, the cloud appeared to have drifted away from the plant (and that was a half hour ago.)
I didn't realize it was all grackles. I was kind of worried about it, because they all talk about it like it's a bad thing. If they've finally found a way to kill off the grackles en masse, more power to'em. NASTY birds.
Electronic Trace Detection (ETD) gives a reading with the specific explosives detected. It uses a swab to collect particles and tests for explosive residue; the machines are commonly used at airports. The results are specific, but are prone to false positives.
This time of year we have all the birds down here that migrated from up north. Soon they'll start migrating back and then we get different species coming through at different times, but winter is always the busy season for bird activity.
Don'tcha know, the Democrats are now in office...no wonder all these "coincidental" things are happening.
I'm a bit worried...:O
sw
LOL!
Shep is talking now. He's such an idiot! Other stations reported why there was only a puff of smoke when they detonated the package. That's because they only wanted to open the package, not detonate it. Shep thinks that because there was only a small puff of smoke that there must be nothing in it.
Thanks..I feel better now. LOL
Not all of them, I'd run out of food! I do feed some Grackles in the back yard, Mr. LL has threatened me with my life if I don't stop..
Downtown Austin shut down after bird deaths
I posted an earlier thread here A strange discovery this morning in downtown Austin. (TX)
Prolly. ;)
But I haven't heard anyone report that the robot has finished checking out the package now that it's been opened.
Shelter-in-place...that would be the plastic and duct tape the libs made fun of, wouldn't it?
I think this is unwarranted. A far as I know, every port in the US is open to the same sort of mischief. At least they caught this one, and people nearby haven't come to harm. Please try to keep in perspective.
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