Stowaway Terrorists Steal Into America By Ship Container

Fairplay International Shipping Weekly V.I.A. DEBKAafile Intelligence and Security Newsletter ^ | June 18, 2002 | Bob Graham -Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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More details have emerged about an apparent infiltration of Islamic terrorists through US ports during the past two months.

Some of the men slipped through secuirty disguised as stevedores, according to Bob Graham Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

He said he had seen reports indicating that some extremists might have been wearing safety jackets and protective helmets to give the appearance of dockworkers.

U.S. Coast Guard Officials have refused to divulge any information about the reports but Graham stressed: 'The American people have a right to know.'

He said 25 extremists 'entered in a foriegn country, hid out in a container and then entered the United States.'

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The column is from Fairplay International Shipping Weekly, service is subsriber only.

[rwfromkansas]

Hmm....

[Turtleman]

This afternoon on KPRC radio in Houston, they were saying that there was a ship off the coast of L.A. with terrorists abord inside containers with weapons too. I came home to see if anything was on the news about it but I didn't see anything on Fox.

[codebreaker]

The game is on baby, Clancy time!

[codebreaker]

The CIA already killed 25 of them in black ops in Miami and Savannah Georgia according to the column

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ping

[seeker41]

There has been a gradual take over of motels and small convinence stores with gas stations by Moslems. The motels are used as safe houses to move terrorists around the country, and you will see the gas stations all go up at a predetermined time.

[niki]

FBI searches L.A. coast for al Qaeda crew, cache

[Texasforever]

The CIA already killed 25 of them in black ops in Miami and Savannah Georgia according to the column

I would love to believe that.

[codebreaker]

And they killed the Muslem dogs by smoking them out with tear glass on the docks, letting them suffocate just like they did to the people on the top of the WTC.

Revenge is a dish best served cold..there aint no civil rights on black ops!

[ClancyJ]

Remember the talk about scuba divers? Could be the terrorists could be brought to a point undetected and don scuba gear and swim on in to the coast.

[codebreaker]

Sounds like a plan, DEBKA also said the dead terorists were quaratined afterwords guess they were loaded for bear.

[Turtleman]

Thanksw Niki, I've been looking for this. :)

[codebreaker]

Nothing on the Houston website, this is full media blackout time.

[codebreaker]

If this is truew why all the snaeking around with quaratinable materials, are they trying to add something to the gas station explosions?

[blackbart.223]

"I would love to believe that."

I'd love it even better if the number was ten times higher.

[codebreaker]

Exactly, I'd rather it was 225 instead of 25.

[seeker41]

I was speculating. mind exercise you know. I started thinking about this scenerio after noticing that so many arabs own or manage such properties (hotels, motels and gas stations). I don't know what one could add to gas that would not be burned off suddenly in an explosion.

[Shermy]

Actually, we know of one instance that occurred in Italy back in October. I remember the pics.

Business-Class Suspect Caught In Container (Terrorist?)

Put "container" in the FR search engine and you get lots of stories of illegals, especially Chinese, using the containers. Since only about 1 or 2 % of them are checked, the consequences are grave.

To be a cynic, if such is happening in America, it will not be publicized. Why? Because the people would demand that each container be checked and the various industries and import interests would lose a few dollars in time and corruption profits. Kind of like the "smart border" scam proposed for the Mexican border.

[Mitchell]

Recall the story of the Egyptian stowaway Amir Farid Rizk, who was arrested in Italy on Oct. 18, 2001, in a shipping container with a bed, a toilet, household goods (including a dishwasher and family photos), a satellite phone, and a computer, apparently traveling to Canada. He was a former commercial jet mechanic. See Stowaway Mystery: Italians Investigate Man Found in Box. The man was released in November; he claimed that he was a Maronite Christian fleeing religious persecution in Egypt. See Egyptian-Canadian Stowaway Is Released From Italian Jail.

[Mitchell]

See my post #2O (we posted within a minute of each other). This stowaway was released from jail in November.

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[blackbart.223]

The latest suicide bombing in Isreal proves that these extremist nuts can't be reasond with. The only cure will have to come from the barrel of a gun. Unfortunate, but I don't see any other way.

[brat]

Monday, British PM’s Wife Cherie Blair Spoke Sympathetically of
Young Palestinian Suicide Bombers
She Appeared with Jordanian Queen Rania at
Medical Aid for Palestine Fund Raiser
DEBKA

[sharkdiver]

As a former Coastguardsman I can tell you that this does in fact occur. There are tens of thousands of these that arrive into our ports everyday. No way for the CG to have any possibility of inspecting each of them. It scares me to think of the possiblity OBL packing one of these full of plastic explosives, or of the same kind of fertilizer bombs that Timothy McVeigh used in the Oaklahoma city bombing and detonating this as it passes a cruise ship or causing a large container ship to sink at the mout of the St. Lawrence seaway or any port of entry in the US.

[Aquinasfan]

I'm sorry to say that it's going to take a few more bombings to wake up the sheeple. It's back to burying our heads in the ground. Just look at the reaction to the Baptist minister's comments regarding the true nature of Islam.

[codebreaker]

Agreed, these b*stards are coming to kill us, and once we all wake up to that fact we will be better off.

[codebreaker]

This is consistent with the Al Qaeda gameplan, exploit a small town port like Savannah and probe for weaknesses in security.

[codebreaker]

And Debka says these guys were driving away in vans in groups of 5-7 each.

[freeperfromnj]

The motels are used as safe houses to move terrorists around the country, and you will see the gas stations all go up at a predetermined time.

You are exactly right. In addition to the dirty bomb plot discussions, Padilla also talked about bombing hotels and gas stations which means there are multiple operatives in the picture. They will attempt to pull these attacks off in spectacular fashion using synchronized, multi-targeted attacks as they did on 9/11. The week this country celebrates its independence is the week we need to watch.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Put "container" in the FR search engine and you get lots of stories of illegals, especially Chinese, using the containers. Since only about 1 or 2 % of them are checked, the consequences are grave.

I happened to see a COSCO container ship sail into NYC harbor one day. Nothing unusual there, except for the timing. July 3, at 5 - 6 PM. Who's going to be working the docks then, the day before the 4th of July? And what was being unloaded while America was partying?

Ouch!

[seeker41]

The week this country celebrates its independence is the week we need to watch.

Great Minds:)hehehe

[nanny]

I have always thought those motels were a very good way to move these people around this country unseen, and unrecorded. The convenience stores would also be a good way to furnish food and gas for these people, unrecorded.

You have to spend a great deal of time to find a motel they do not own. We tried when we were working in the Houston area, and did not find one not owned or run by them - the same with convenience stores. It was scary.

[seeker41]

Yep and Houston is my home.