[kinghorse]

Umm here is the ships recent itinerary. As if we needed a reason:

The Palermo Senator is owned by the firm Reederei F. Laeisz of Hamburg, Germany, and regularly plies the route between New York and the Far East.

Its last port of call was Valencia, Spain, but in the past several weeks it has stopped and picked up cargo in a number of ports, including Bandar Abbas, Iran; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Karachi, Pakistan.

[seeker41]

Oh my, not very friendly countries are they?

[Jim Noble]

1) Dispatch two Ohio-class boomers to the Arabian sea.

2) Notify Riyadh, Damascus, Teheran, Baghdad and Islamabad that they will cease to exist within 48 hours of a nuclear detonation in or near the United States.

3) Oh yeah, by the way-if the people who loaded neutrons onto this ship are not at Camp XRay by Saturday afternoon, they will cease to exist anyway.