http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/seaportsecurity/ en-us Mon, 6 Mar 2006 05:25:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590715/posts DUBAI DUETS Late Friday, Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Bill Clinton had registered as an "Agent of a Foreign Principal." Federal statute requires that anyone -- even a former President -- doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency or official must register with the Department, and essentially update his status every six months. It was not clear the Clinton had done so. If his status is less clear, here is what we do know: If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not know... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590715/posts#comment Mon, 6 Mar 2006 05:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684893/posts Excerpt - Bomb squads are responding to Terminal 18 on Seattle's waterfront after a canine bomb team found possible explosives in a container, the Coast Guard said this afternoon. ~ snip ~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684893/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:55:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655971/posts <p>Adam Housley reports a ship from Guatemala had written in the hold "This Nitro is for you George Bush."</p> FOX News Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655971/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:22:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1354678/posts Compiling a list of suspicious incidents nationwide, including train derailments, chemical/oil refinery fires and or explosions, etc. Don't forget to include news link for source. Please send to my attention. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1354678/posts#comment Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138611/posts Those who go to sleep at night with the threat of terrorism on their minds might be surprised to learn that Muslim CEOs are running companies that watch over our safety. • Fuad El-Hibri is CEO of BioPort, the only U.S. maker of anthrax vaccine. • Houssam Salloum is CEO of Axiolog, a Detroit firm developing a high-tech system for tracking international cargo into vulnerable U.S. ports. • Nafa Khalaf is CEO of Detroit Contracting, which after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 secured the five major treatment plants that supply water to 4.5 million residents of the Detroit area.... USA Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138611/posts#comment Wed, 19 May 2004 17:59:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109124/posts <p>U.S. military commanders in the Pacific warned Congress yesterday that North Korea could provide nuclear arms to terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.</p> <p>Adm. Thomas B. Fargo, leader of the U.S. Pacific Command, and Army Gen. Leon J. LaPorte, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, testified about the danger of nuclear terrorism at a budget hearing for the House Armed Services Committee.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109124/posts#comment Thu, 1 Apr 2004 07:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100045/posts Three men are in custody this hour after allegedly photographing sites around the local refineries Wednesday in Delaware County. Police sources confirm that the three men are in custody and are being questioned about their activities. The men were apprehended by Marcus Hook police. The FBI will assist with the investigation. Sources also tell Action News that the alleged suspects were videotaping the refineries and tanker ships. WPVI (ABC Philadelphia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100045/posts#comment Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:46:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894706/posts Achille Lauro What happened during the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985? AP Photo Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, 1985 On October 7, 1985 four heavily armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, with some 100 mostly elderly passengers on board, in Egyptian waters. The hijackers demanded that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners, and to prove their determination, they shot and killed a disabled American tourist, 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer, and threw his body overboard with his wheelchair. After a two-day drama, the Egyptian government, unaware that Klinghoffer... palestine facts dot org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894706/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:37:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/694630/posts A local dive shop owner says FBI agents are wasting their time scouring Keys dive shops for information about suspicious people who took scuba classes. On May 23, the FBI released a warning that some terrorists had been seeking "an offensive scuba diver capability." Concerned that future terrorist attacks might come by sea, the bureau apparently is compiling a database of all the country's certified scuba divers. "Why spin your wheels interviewing the dive shops when they should be going right to PADI?" asked Capt. Bill Grosscup, owner of Captain's Corner on Greene Street. The Professional Association of Diving Instructors,... keysnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/694630/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:31:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/696381/posts United States Attorney Eastern District of Virginia District of Columbia TO: Anti-Terrorism Task Force FROM: Frank Shults Chief Information Officer RE: Kayak rentals The ATTF CIO in Milwaukee obtained the following information from an intelligence summary report of an Army CID ATTF rep. It is passed on to you for information purposes. (U//FOUO) California: On 21 May 2002, US Coast Guard (USCG) personnel were notified by a kayak distributor in Wilmington, CA, in metropolitan Los Angeles, that three or four men appearing to be of Middle-Eastern descent attempted to purchase four small "sit on top" kayaks several weeks ago. The... memo from Anti Terrorism Task Force http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/696381/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/810276/posts The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President Bush's maladroit and shortsighted decision-making in the So San affair. Our National Security Agency, to its credit, spotted the movement of 15 Scud missiles and 85 drums of chemicals from a factory in North Korea to its secret loading aboard the freighter So San, and tracked the unflagged ship around the world to the Arabian Sea. The C.I.A. was unable to determine the customer of these offensive weapons, unreliable in military combat but useful in striking terror into... NewYorkTImes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/810276/posts#comment Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943823/posts Huge Weapons Shipment Seized At Port PORTLAND - Federal officials announced late Wednesday the seizure of possibly the largest shipment of weapons ever found in the northwest from Terminal Six at the Port of Portland. Officials with the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and extension of the Department of Homeland Security said inspectors seized more than 700 handguns, 900 magazines, and 450 shotguns from a container at the port on June 28. The CBP said the shipment was bound for Central America, and originated in the People's Republic of China. Authorities say they learned of the... katu oregon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943823/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:34:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038506/posts The Coast Guard intercepted and boarded the ship, 'Athena' off the coast, then escorted it upriver to be docked. Since it docked at the Port of Longview Friday, it's been under constant surveillance from a Coast Guard Gunboat with Coast Guard and customs agents watching from shore. Just down river from the ship, fishermen Mike Young and Gerald Senesac reel in their catch and wonder why the cargo ship is being guarded. "With guns ready, there's got to be something different than what the government's saying," says Senesac. KATU's Dan Tilkin learned a few details about the ship: Before the... KATU News (Portland, OR) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038506/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:56:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032525/posts Officials Seek New Place to Inspect Suspicious Cargo Tue Dec 2,11:35 AM ET Add Local - Los Angeles Times to My Yahoo! By Deborah Schoch When an incoming cargo container sparks the interest of federal security inspectors at the Los Angeles-Long Beach seaport complex, that container more often than not is trucked to a warehouse in Carson to be searched by hand. • Subscribe to the Los Angeles Times Federal security officials, unhappy with that route, want a proposed first-of-its-kind inspection center to be built close to where ships unload. "We really don't want containers traveling through residential neighborhoods if... LA Times/Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032525/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:37:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969465/posts SAN FRANCISCO -- A 'single source' in Europe has told U.S. officials that there may be a terrorist attack this weekend at a waterfront oil facility in either San Francisco, New York City or Los Angeles. While the tip has not been corroborated by another source, the FBI is taking the threat seriously and has issued a terror alert to Bay Area authorities. An additional target, the source told federal officials, may be the Boulder Dam. The California Highway Patrol told KTVU that it had not added any additional officers to its patrols, but was keeping a close eye on... KTVU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969465/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842632/posts WASHINGTON -- The Customs Service refused to let 13 sea containers destined for the United States be loaded onto ships at foreign ports because of insufficient details about their contents, a violation of a new federal rule. The agency says it needs timely and accurate manifest information to effectively evaluate and identify cargo that may pose a risk to U.S. security. With 5.7 million cargo containers entering U.S. seaports each year, Customs says it is critically important to prevent terrorists from using sea containers to smuggle nuclear, chemical, biological or other deadly weapons into this country. Newsday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842632/posts#comment Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963737/posts First of two articlesNEW DELHI -- Tae Min Hun, the dour captain of the North Korean freighter Kuwolsan, glared icily from the bridge as tempers around him soared in the midday heat. On June 30, 1999, as customs agents in India's northwestern port city of Kandla waited impatiently to board the vessel, Tae received urgent instructions from Pyongyang: At all cost, let no one open the cargo boxes.The Indians tried to look anyway, and a melee erupted. Tae and his crew rained blows on inspectors and barricaded the doors with their bodies, according to witness accounts and video footage of... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963737/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:32:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/691646/posts This just broke after the Nets-Celtics game on NBC. Apparently the FBI is investigating a group of middle eastern men who purchased top of the line "undetectable diving equipment" sometime before the recent FBI warning. This is more than likely why the alert has been given about divers committing acts of terror. I have also gone through my usual sources through news-press paper out of Ft.Myers which is where the purchase was made. Now I ask those of you on here to do your research into this area. A few of the 9-11 terrorists lived in a rented room in... NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/691646/posts#comment Thu, 30 May 2002 04:01:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926617/posts North Korean freighter barred from leaving port KYOTO (Kyodo) Japan ordered a North Korean freighter Tuesday set to carry goods to the North -- in place of a North Korean ferry at the center of arms and espionage allegations -- not to leave port. Cargo is loaded aboard the North Korean ship Namsan 3 in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture. The 298-ton freighter Namsan 3, which arrived at Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture at around 7:30 a.m. with 16 crew members, was to sail again in the afternoon. But a special government probe concluded that the vessel must be detained in... Japan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926617/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:50:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900477/posts HALIFAX (CP) - An officer who died aboard a ship now quarantined off the coast of Nova Scotia had anthrax bacilli in his system, but Brazilian officials have yet to determine if the lethal bacteria caused his death. A specialist with the Brazilian Health Department said Friday the bacilli were discovered in the unidentified man's body after he died while the ship was sailing in Brazilian waters. However, a conclusive autopsy report had yet to be completed. "The bacilli of anthrax was found in his body," Carlos Lopes said in an interview from Brasilia, the capital of the South American... Canadian Press via Sun Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900477/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:50:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899440/posts Federal officials are preparing to place an Egyptian ship under quarantine following the death of the vessel's first mate from the bacterial disease anthrax, Le Soleil reports today. The Wadi Al Arab left Brazil earlier this week after it dropped off the body of a deceased crew member, said the Quebec City newspaper. The ship was scheduled to drop off a load of bauxite at an Alcan aluminum plant in Saguenay, Que., but it has been diverted to Halifax. The Wadi Al Arab was still outside Canadian waters last night. Officials with Health Canada, the RCMP and Transport Canada were... Canada.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899440/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:21:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899632/posts                                 THURSDAY APRIL 24 2003                   ShopNetDaily   Page 1 News   Page 2 News   G2 Bulletin   BizNetDaily   LocalNetDaily   Commentary   Classified Ads   Letters   People Search   SportsNetDaily   Health   Weather   TV Guide   Movies   Stocks     BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR Cargo ship to be seized over anthrax Officer aboard Quebec-bound vessel died from disease Posted: April 24, 200310:38 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Canadian authorities plan to seize a cargo ship bound for a Quebec port after learning an officer on board died from exposure... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899632/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:01:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/794445/posts <p>November 23, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - The newest prize al Qaeda captive has given U.S. intelligence agents chilling details about massive terrorist plots to attack commercial and military ships in the Persian Gulf region with planes and scuba divers, The Post has learned.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/794445/posts#comment Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:01:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/874725/posts <p>The U.S. Coast Guard removed two Iraqi-national crew members from an oil tanker it boarded in the Delaware Bay and are holding them in an undisclosed location.</p> <p>The Qatar-flagged, 880-foot tanker is anchored at the Coastal Eagle Point Facility, a refinery across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, and remains under armed control of the Coast Guard, which boarded the ship last week.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/874725/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:08:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/855578/posts <p>Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in Pearl Harbor, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>Intelligence reports about the terrorist threat to the Hawaiian harbor bombed by the Japanese in World War II were sent to senior U.S. officials in the past two weeks and coincided with reports of the planning of a major attack by Osama bin Laden's terrorist group. Officials said the reports were one of the reasons that led to the recent heightened security threat alert. The alert status has since been lowered.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/855578/posts#comment Mon, 3 Mar 2003 06:44:28 GMT