Coast Guard Announces 25 Terrorist Stowaways Loose in US

Fox News | May 13, 2002 | Fox News

[Miss Marple]

Fox News is reporting that 25 Islamic Radical terrorists have entered the country since March, as stowaways on cargo vessels of major carriers, docking in Miami, California, and I believe Virginia. They will brief law enforcement officials tomorrow in a classified briefing about the reliability of their information.

I am hoping I have not duplicated a post. I haven't seen anything on line yet about this. Fox has discussed it three times in the last half hour.

[Dog]

What ???

[Mo1]

Fox News is now reporting a PARTIAL evacuation of the Pentagon due to an odor that was picked up by the machines

[knak]

Alright, Miss Marple; is this the best news you could give me to have with my coffee? Wonderful. Sigh. Please keep those of us without Fox news updated.

[Dog]

What kind of odor.....and what kind of machines...????

[CFW]

I give up! Why don't we just start a "shower thread" for each day?

This is crazy. What is our current color-coded alert status and does it match what I wore to work today?

[Mo1]

Not sure what kind of odor but the machines are the ones that pick up chemical weapons

It could be a false alarm but they are not taking any chances and they are evacuating part of the Pentagon

[Dog]

Jin Angle is reporting a White House Official is saying the threat to nuke plants comes from a East European intell service thru a UNTESTED SOURCE....

Now they will downplay it....

This is getting old real fast......put out a threat....then downplay it ....Grrrrrrr!!!

[SheLion]

That's just the traditional pre-summer driving season refinery fire. Happens every year.

Yep! There goes our gasoline prices again. This sure is a strange one. It's really blazing.

[Miss Marple]

That is a very practical idea. It would also keep lesser pests from entering the country. You should forward this idea to the Homeland Security people.

[Dog]

You know that is one heck of an idea!!!

Why not gas the containers..

[SheLion]

And just now there's a partial evacuation of the Pentagon, Fox is reporting.

Whaaat???

[Miss Marple]

No, the threat from nuke plants is a separate deal from the 25 terrorists. The 25 terrorist info comes from the Coast Guard. They are briefing law enforcement people tomorrow.

[Lucas1]

This is BS...how did they know they were terrorists...how did they know how many...if they knew it why did they let them in. This sounds really silly. I have heard these type things before but it never pans out to be anything. Whatever...

[browardchad]

It was reported on another thread that it's a "paint thinner" type smell, and sensors may be too highly sensitive?

[Miss Marple]

I would imagine they discovered this information from another source, not from watching 25 people get off the boat. Read the story on the link provided.

This is not BS.

[mewzilla]

I don't know what the current color is, probably puce, but if this keeps up I think they're going to need to add some golf pants plaids to their current color scheme...

[SheLion]

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow might be too late. I guess "they" aren't too worried about it. ~sigh........

[rwfromkansas]

I won't be sleeping at all probably due to a final tomorrow.....oh well.

[Miss Marple]

No, the law enforcement people have already been alerted. The briefing tomorrow is to explain their source and what else they know. Law enforcement has already been alerted on the basics.

The briefing tomorrow is classified.