Posted on 09/11/2002 9:17:10 AM PDT by dommie
This just in... U.S. Coast Guard is holding a Liberian ship off the coast of Manhattan. They are reporting radioactivity on board the vessel. More on this when it breaks.
http://terrornews.net/home/article.asp?idx=554
Wow...that could have been serious!! I wonder if they offloaded anyone before the Coast Guard got them...scary times, indeed!!
FReegards...MUD
Yep...MUD
HIJACKER EYED U.S. NAVY BASE
New York Post
Oct. 22, 2001 -- Lead suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta visited a Virginia naval base at least twice this year, perhaps thinking of making an aircraft carrier one of his terror targets, it was reported today.
Atta made the trips to Norfolk in February and April, according to Newsweek.
Federal sources told the magazine that investigators believe Atta may have considered flying a commercial jet into an aircraft carrier during his day of terror Sept. 11.
...
Of course, they could be taking it to the Potomac, too.
Speaking of that, ya think we might get more US-registered [businesses] if we eased up on our excesses?
FReegards...MUD
Do ya ever get the impression that the Terrorists ain't the sharpest knives in the drawer?!
FReegards...MUD
I don't know, but it seems doubtful to me that they made an unscheduled stop. The ship does carry passengers, and it does have a schedule to keep. (It's true that they are a day late, though.)
But they could easily have picked up a container at Jeddah (or in the UAE) on the last leg of the previous trip out and simply kept it on board all the way back. Or it could have been loaded somewhere else, perhaps Southeast Asia or Suez.
Sure wouldda done a lot more damage than the Pentagon kamikaze run...however, I reckon they weren't looking to nail something that can actually fight back.
FReegards...MUD
Now that our folks are on the case, I trust them to get down to the bottom of it.
FReegards...MUD
Also, it's hard to imagine them carrying out any sort of nuclear or dirty-bomb attack on anything but one of our largest urban areas.
they're surely not "profiling" ships now are they?
I don't know, but it seems doubtful to me that they made an unscheduled stop. The ship does carry passengers, and it does have a schedule to keep. (It's true that they are a day late, though.)
She's a container ship, only carries 4 passengers, and freighter passengers are always warned about unscheduled stops. An unscheduled Red Sea stop could easily take place as a result of delays for Suez Canal transit.
B-Cause
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Class of 1960.
an admirable duty.
The route comes through Jeddah, which is south west Saudi Arbia, where most of the hijackers came from. Time to go on a long vacation, while Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld do what needs to be done.
They said it was dusty, so finding it didn't mean anything. I'm looking in the archives...I KNOW it was posted on FR, but am having trouble finding it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.