FBI Escorting SHIP Loaded with EXPLOSIVES into FL

Heard on TV | 10-17-02 | FOXNEWS ALERT

[antivenom]

Just heard a ship loaded with containers from Germany is being escorted by Coast Guard and will be investigated by the FBI. It is being said it may have explosives on the ship...will post when news comes through...think the ship was headed to a port in Florida, Miami. Going to Port Everglades...

[antivenom]

Al Qaida can organinize faster and better than the DEMONcratic party

[stboz]

Uh, 'scuse me, but, let's search the dang thing OFFSHORE and DOWNWIND!

[Matchett-PI]

Was watching Fox and just came in here to post this story when I saw yours! Talk about fast! LOL

[concerned about politics]

Probably ordered in by Democrats - to be used in heavy Republican voting areas. Win at all cost.

Seriously. From Germany? What the.....?
Maybe the Islamic leader is right. Germany is now an Islamic country.
I hope it's just a load of cat litter or something.

[Bon mots]

Tell the FBI to park it in the East River beneath the UN building and have Kofi search it thoroughly.

[Bon mots]

Don't worry about it. The Democrats are sending Jimmy Carter out there to surrender. As long as the swamp rabbits don't get him...

[Recovering_Democrat]

TOM DASH-HOLE
WOULD
RATHER
PROTECT
THE
GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEE
UNIONS
THAN
PASS
A
HOMELAND
SECURITY
BILL!

Remember that, Florida, if you light up the night sky tonight. If you're still around, that is. :(

[antivenom]

WELL SAID!!!

[Crispy]

I agree. If they have to unload to get to the cargo, unload the cargo in the middle of the Atlantic.

[tortoise]

The US regularly imports thousands of tons of explosives into the US via container ship. Explosives are so cheap to manufacture that most are produced in the third-world due to razor thin commodity pricing. China and Latin American are major exporters of explosives to the US as I recall.

[js1138]

More than likely the story and the ship are a load of fertilizer.

[michigander]

More than likely the story and the ship are a load of fertilizer.

This thread sure is. Sheese!

[navyblue]

You CANNOT unload the vessel at sea! A container ship has no means to lift the boxes off the deck and out of the cells. Shoreside cranes must be used. If there were explosives onboard, they could be in a box at the very bottom of a cell containing six or eight boxes. The only way to unload it is to bring it into port where the gantry cranes are located.

Well, I guess you could always sink the whole thing out at sea.

[beckett]

I am watching a story on the case right now. The FBI is investigating a TIP. It is not correct to say, as you do in your headline, that the "FBI [is] escorting a ship loaded with explosives." Nobody knows if the tip is correct. Even if one of the containers on the ship does have explosives inside, your headline would still be wrong, since the entire ship itself is not "loaded with explosives." Besides, the highest probability is that the tip is bogus, either a prank by some irresponsible individual, or a deliberate attempt by al-Qaeda to create panic in the community.

Alarmist sensationalism is best left with mainstrean media. Let's not help al-Qaeda here on FR by getting ahead of a story and reaching conclusions before the facts are in.

[michigander]

Coast Guard Boards Ship At Port Everglades

Ship May Contain Suspicious Cargo

NBC 6 News Team

POSTED: 6:31 p.m. EDT October 18, 2002

UPDATED: 6:34 p.m. EDT October 18, 2002

PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. --

Agents from the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship at Port Everglades off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Friday.

NBC 6 News learned that federal agents received a tip in a letter, saying something of concern might be hidden aboard the ship, including possible explosives.'

The ship, the Maren-Maersk, originated in Denmark.

It was expected to be escorted into the port Friday evening.

NBC 6 will have a live update on this developing story on the News at 11.

[El Sordo]

Is there any ryhme or reason behind those keywords?

[Bogie]

What kind of explosives?

[TankerKC]

Thanks for simplifying the thread. Doh!

[ladyinred]

Is it maybe the election supervisors the DNC hired to monitor the polls in Florida?