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Three Arabs Detained Trying to Sneak Into Port of Miami http://www.truthnews.net/daily/2006100455.htm Webcast News Service, 7 January 2007 Three Arab men have been detained as they tried to sneak past a security checkpoint at the Port of Miami. The incident occurred around 8:00 a.m. According to local authorities, a security office became suspicious when the driver of a truck attempting to enter the port area did not have the required paperwork. Officers searched the truck and found two other men in the cab trying to hide, Williams said. The three men were two Iraqis and one Lebanese national who are legal...

Authorities found two 55-gallon containers in truck trying to enter Port of Miami-Dade Jan. 07, 2007 By DAVID OVALLE, JAY WEAVER, ALDO NAHED and ROB BARRY jweaver@MiamiHerald.com Authorities discovered two suspicious 55-gallon containers in the back of a truck operated by an Iraqi man who sparked a national security investigation after he was stopped from entering the Port of Miami-Dade on Sunday morning. Miami-Dade County police's bomb squad and fire rescue's hazmat team were examining the 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck to determine what the containers' held, police said. It all began at around 9 a.m. when Miami-Dade police stopped the driver,...

The Port of Miami on Sunday was in a heightened state of security after police discovered two men hiding in a cargo truck, FOX News has learned.

The Dubai-owned company that promised to surrender its U.S. port operations has no immediate plans to sell its U.S. subsidiary's interests at Miami's seaport, a senior executive wrote Monday in a private e-mail to business associates. (snip) "As for the 'pending situation,' I myself am not aware of anything about it that would alter the ownership of POMTOC, so unless one or both of our esteemed partners have separately advised you that they plan to sell their interests, you should assume for your own purposes of managing the company that ownership of POMTOC is not going to change," Scavone wrote.