[freeperfromnj]

MSNBC had this up on their web site all morning. Jim Mickleshski broke the story.


http://www.msnbc.com/news/807075.asp

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks like the NEST team was there before the SEALS!

No one has posted this! We are slipping !

See post #46!

[browardchad]

The search of the M/V Palermo Senator was based primarily on intelligence suggesting a ship matching its description could be carrying nuclear material or a nuclear device into the United States, the officials said.

This is interesting -- none of the other stories I've read said the intel was out there before the ship arrived (prompting the elevated alert, perhaps?), and the "noises" the Coast Guard heard may simply have been used as a pretext for a search.