Posted on 09/12/2002 10:15:38 AM PDT by Brytani
Fox News just broke in with an alert. Special Op's are now searching a Liberian flagged ship 8 miles off the coast of NJ looking for nuclear material. More information to follow.
The logic of the office of Chief Executive is compelling: I have a duty to be honest, but if my honesty causes mass panic, I have done more harm than good. Dubya has a duty to conceal the arrival in the Port of Newark of a nuclear fission weapon. Just as I'm sure we've not heard of 1/20th of the actual terrorist attacks thwarted.
My translation: we found it, disarmed it, and went home.
Eh? Why is it called depleted then?
In a container, on a ship, then trucked to Colorado...
Slightly off-topic, Jayna Davis sure is receiving some vindication about her post-OKC reporting, though...!
So, what happened to ICAO regulations about English being the international language of aviation?! Sounds like that South American airline scenario all over again (the 727(?) that crashed on Long Island a number of years ago), but without the bad ending.
Posted on 09/12/2002 11:46 PM Eastern by RummyChick
MAIMI -- An advisory has been sent out to police departments across the state. It's a warning about three men who may be putting together a dangerous plan involving Miami.
A woman at a Georgia restaurant says she overheard three men talking about coming to Miami and she didn't like what she heard. So tonight police are on the lookout for those men.
One day after America remembers September 11th, an alert is issued to police departments across the state about three men.
A woman overheard them talking Thursday morning at a Shoney's restaurant in Calhoun, Georgia. The woman claims the men said, "They (Americans) mourned on 9/11 and they are going to mourn again on 9/13." The men also discussed "running 5 hours behind schedule." One of the men reportedly said, "We do not have enough to bring it down." The men then left the restaurant, and headed south on I-75.
Miami-Dade County officials say they are not taking any chances.
Steve Shiver, Miami-Dade County Manager says, "At this point in time we have no reason... ...to be aware of our surroundings."
We have comprised some information about these men and police are asking for your help.
The description of the first car:
A Nissan Maxima: cream color with gold trim and a Carmax tag on the front of the vehicle.
Now the second car:
A new Honda, black with Illinois plates.
Now for the suspects' descriptions;
First: A man of possible Middle Eastern descent, 5'10'', 200 pounds, 20-30 years old, black hair, brown eyes, set wide apart, thick beard that extends past his collar.
Second man: again, possible Mideastern descent, 5'7'', 130 pounds, black hair that comes down to his collar.
The third and final man, also of possible Mideastern descent, 5'7'' 130 pounds, shiny black hair.
Now we want to stress tonight, as we speak, the nation is still at an orange alert. (the second highest) This may be nothing, but they just want to talk to these men to make sure.
If you have any information you are urged to call Miami-dade CrimeStoppers at (305) 471-TIPS or in Broward call (954) 493-TIPS.
Stay tuned to WSVN Channel 7 for the latest on this developing story.
Instead of purple-white, it'd be blue-green, but probably not as much an issue as with an air or surface explosion.
If there is a freeper hall of fame, some freepers should get an award for busting up the NW terror cells.
As always, FR is "the cutting edge of the cutting edge". AKA "read next week's headlines on Free Republic today".
Exactly! Sometimes the "edges" of a story can be felt by observing their story choices and story spikes, then viewing that "matrix" backwrds through their known bias filters.
All those who slogged through the constant derision chasing the truth about the OKC-middle east connections are heros, with Jayna Davis at the front of the line.
As you noted in your reply, As always, FR is "the cutting edge of the cutting edge". AKA "read next week's headlines on Free Republic today".
In some cases, months, later our old Freeper News, becomes the headlines. Even then those headlines and the story in the media, will not have the insights that we share and learn with each other.
15 Men Held in Italy Face Terror Charges Based on U.S. Tip (Terrorists pulled off freighter Aug 5, near Sicily)
I checked the itinerary of the Newark freighter, which was in/near Hong Kong that day. But this is still unsettling. This was after the warning about stowaways, correct?
Something else I thought of. What if the terrorists pulled of the first freighter were the advance crew for whatever's on this one? Did we get the tip from that arrest?
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Following a tip from U.S. naval intelligence officers, Italian authorities last month seized a ship carrying 15 suspected terrorists off the island of Sicily, Italian officials said today. The men, identified by Italian authorities as Pakistanis, were charged today with "association" to commit terrorist acts.
"We are certain that these people are part of a terrorist organization and we are almost certain that the organization is al Qaeda," said Santi Giuffre, police chief of Caltanissetta, where the group is being held."
"Officials here said the decision to board the ship last month was made on the basis of a U.S. government tip. Police and members of SISMI, Italy's military intelligence service, boarded the vessel in Italian waters off Sicily and found the 15 suspects along with seven Romanian crew members. The Italians confiscated telephone numbers, messages that had been encoded and Karachi-Casablanca air tickets."
A U.S. Navy representative present at the news conference, Samuel Worth, told reporters that the coded reference to marriage was especially worrisome. "We are alarmed," he said, "because it's a word that was intercepted during the first attack on the twin towers, in 1993. It is one of the elements that induced us to intervene."
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