[shaggy eel]

,,, here ya go! Your COSCO thoughts lie within.

[A. Morgan]

Geeze... you mean instead containers packed of dozens of Chinese, they'll be replaced with dozens suicide bombers?

[Aquinasfan]

Bummer. I was thinking of the LNG tankers as the next likely scenario.

I heard a couple of teasers the last couple of days saying that "Bin Laden was closer to having weapons of mass destruction than we thought" but never heard the story. Anyone hear anything?

[tubebender]

Better get right down to Wally Mart and stock up on...er... stuff.

[Robert357]

An ISO 40 foot container stacked on a Container ship could be loaded just like a truck bomb. That is it could have sufficient power to make a very large explosion. While the results would be tragic, most intermodal ISO containers never, and I repeat never get into areas where there are thousands of people. Therefore, the comparison to the damage at the twin towers, is not valid. Yes, such a device could do damage to the ship, it could make a mess, but it could not kill two to three thousand people, just because it would not be in a place where that kind of population density would likely be.

Every since the "Canadian" was found in an airplane pilots uniform within a customized ISO container that he was taking a trip from Egypt to Canada, there has been a theory that container shipping security is way too lax. Also the US has sent agents to various Canadian ports to check cargo containers there prior to their shipment to the US. So it is possible and would be horrible, but survivable.

[AmericaUnited]

Noted journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave, in a special "Off the Record” briefing to NewsMax readers warns that terrorists have already talked and bragged about being able to explode a fully loaded oil tanker as it passes through the Straits of Hormuz.

Such a disaster, de Borchgrave says, would close the narrow straits, and send the world economy into a tailspin.

I find this not credible. If a tanker was sunk, it would be refloated and towed out of there ASAP! There is enough oil in reserves or coming from other areas as to not cause a crisis over the straights being closed for a week or so.

[mathurine]

At some point it will be necessary to eliminate the threat by greasing the middle eastern islamic idiot pool in its entirity; sooner would be betterthan later in this case.

[mathurine]

At some point it will be necessary to eliminate the threat by greasing the middle eastern islamic idiot pool in its entirity; sooner would be betterthan later in this case.

[foreverfree]

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