The Mysterious al Qaeda Navy

Strategy Page ^ | May 19, 2004

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

While I'd like to believe he's credible, not one thing he's ever mentioned as "about to break" on Fox News has ever broken

agreed, he seems like he should be writing for some grocery line checkout newspaper. Either that or everytime on tv he just blurt out something crazy and hopes that eventually it will happen to make it look like he knew about it all along.

[WestCoastGal]

"The ship was flying under a flag of convenience, from the Comoros Islands. But the Comoros Maritime Administration said it had not registered the “Baltic Sky” and the registration papers the ship was carrying were forged."

"The Turks were particularly concerned, because if the Baltic Sky had detonated it’s explosives under the Bosphorous bridge, the bridge would have come down and blocked the busiest shipping channel in the world (with 30 percent more ship traffic than the Straights of Malacca.)

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Intersting article. (the two paragraphs above caught my eye)

If memory serves me correct, the Comoros Islands were the destination point for terrorists fleeing from Afghanistan through Pakistan and then by boat when we first went into Afghanistan. ( I think another missing ship turned up there as well)

Also, it has been a fear for many years now that they would try to blow something up in the shipping channels which would be disastrous either in the Malacca Straits, the canals or Bosphorous as noted above.

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So, why did you get an alert from google? I don't know how that works. Do they alert on news stories that are current?

[attiladhun2]

I don't think the Islamists are out to halt trade so much as they are want to kill as many of us infidels as possible. A seaborne attack will be on a major US port or one of a US ally using an oil tanker or a vessel filled with noxious chemicals or explosives.