Posted on 01/07/2007 8:58:25 AM PST by sageb1
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Define "Automotive Wire". I doubt if that is an exclusive use.I doubt that wire has a nefarious purpose. You can buy more than enough wire to build bombs or whatever at the local Radio Shack.
One possibility, however, is that they had a truckload full of innocuous stuff that they take to the port and unload, and then pick up something to take back to MI or wherever. So if I were the FBI, I'd be looking very carefully at the contents of every container and every ship in that port or coming into the port in the near future.
Just wire and 'auto' parts headed to Iraqi insurgents and terrorists to make bombs and such. Nothing to see here...move along....(rolling eyes)
It was also the usual puffery with everyone in the presser and the guests in the studio ranting about how smoothly and efficiently everything worked........how every part of security worked like clockwork (endlessly and repetively).
The completely vacuous Fox studio infobabe just agreed with everyone and repeated every thing she heard as though we didn't listen. Not one original idea or question. I wanted to feed her a cracker.
Then after everybody waiting for hours, the networks abruptly shut the presser out. Man what a letdown. It went down like that meteor in the news.
One thing I wanted to know was where the electric parts were headed. They can be used by terrorists. The port infobabe dodged the question. I would have asked how long they've been in the country and what part of the country they came in.
I bet at least one or more is illegal or a fugitive and the driver was trying to smuggle him (or them) into the port complex. Then he or they would try to stow away on a ship somewhere. There may be contacts they have on cargo ships who will help smuggle.
Well, she said they're all legal. We'll see.
The legals are the scary ones because they have a cover.
Leni
Not really, though. We found out that port security isn't entirely an oxymoron, and that's good to know. And if these guys really are just three incredible boneheads, I'm happy it's a false alarm :)
"What a wasted afternoon."
lol! You guys all kept going while I took a nap. :)
I'm not so sure it was a false alarm, but for now there are probably no real dots to connect. A few months for now, we'll probably all be saying, "remember those 3 guys in the Port of Miami?" ;)
But the back-patting by everyone involved went on and on.
Fox should have shut down the repetitive guests.........plus give that dopey infobabe a taxi ride home (no wonder she's relegated to Sundays).
It should have gotten on with other important news, like the Holloway divorce.
Leni
Hey, we can't help it if you're smarter than us...
"Hey, we can't help it if you're smarter than us..."
Shhhh...don't remind anyone that I was the one who started the thread. :)
It's 77 (8 PM ET) today in Florida, warmer earlier in the day.
My ears thanked me.
Leni
Good point. I think they may have been planning on picking up something that was too heavy for one person alone to handle, but on the other hand, they didn't want other people to assist them or see it.
I thought it was interesting that one of the ways they caught them was that the first guy was very nervous. Hopefully, the Muslims won't start training up people who can beat polygraph tests. I have noticed that when I go through Immigration (I travel a fair amount), the people at the desk have obvioiusly been trained to look for certain things. One of my daughters is a police officer, and she said that once you know the signs, you virtually cannot miss them.
Remember the border agent in Washington State who spotted the too-heavy car and the nervous driver and thereby prevented the Muslim tribute to the New Millenium?
Oh, yeah, right. Duh...
It was 70 degrees up here in northeastern upstate NY yesterday afternoon. Things are growing even! We'll probably get buried in 4' of snow next week.
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"What a wasted afternoon."
LOL..I had a bit of fun here today! Your wrap up post is spot on though! The Press NEVER ASKS THE MOST OBVIOUS questions anymore! It started with them not asking the most important one in the very beginning....Was the truck on the way in or the way out of the port?
Since they failed to ask that question...just about everything they reported on from then on was a disjointed mess. The Miami Herald guys reported that there were two 55 gallon drums on board the truck...now according to the presser, that was all false. Anyone gonna ask the Herald where in the hell they got that info?
The press failed yet again today, not the Freepers...
Freep On!!
Because no one died or was seriously injured... they're only interested in dead bodies.
It's great that everyone was rescued and that should be a story, but it's not. Also, the road crews set some cannons off afterwards to bring any remaining avalanche down. Now that kind of stuff is interesting to me. I like follow through... But I'm old-fashioned.
Been reading your posts on this thread and yer killin me man. I think we need to put a chip of some sort in your head to keep track of what's going on in there and closed circuit cameras wherever you go. LOL-thanks I needed those.
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