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Huge Weapons Shipment Seized At Port
katu oregon ^
Posted on 07/10/2003 12:34:11 PM PDT by chance33_98
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 shipment before it even arrived at the port. Officials said the seizure did not come as part of the federal investigation of arms shipments to Iran.
CBP officials plan to discuss what they found and how the shipment was tracked down at an afternoon press conference at the port.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: arms; armssmuggling; bang; banglist; bcbp; ca; cbp; centralamerica; china; chinese; dhs; hls; interdiction; latinamerica; portland; portsecurity; redchina; sa; samerica; seaportsecurity; shotguns; smallarms; smuggling; southamerica; weapons; weaponssmuggling
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To: chance33_98
Huge Weapons Shipment Seized At PortThey misspelled "hugh." This could be series...VEY SERIES!
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:36:21 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
To: Poohbah
DOH! My Bad :)
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:37:28 PM PDT
by
chance33_98
(http://home.frognet.net/~thowell/haunt/ ---->our ghosty page)
To: Travis McGee; Jeff Head; harpseal; Squantos; Noumenon
Perhaps of interest. The ChiComs smuggling arms to Latin America? Naw, couldn't be.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:38:09 PM PDT
by
Joe Brower
("Oh, bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round.)
To: chance33_98
Central America? Would that be Chicago or St. Louis?
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:38:23 PM PDT
by
kellynla
("C" 1/5 1st Mar Div Viet Nam '69 & '70 Semper Fi)
To: chance33_98
The CBP said the shipment was bound for Central America, and originated in the People's Republic of China. Which Central American country?
Is it possible for there to be a "Huge Weapons Shipment" from China without the consent of the Chinese government?
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:39:59 PM PDT
by
Tai_Chung
To: chance33_98
Were these weapons to be stored near Panama?
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07/10/2003 12:40:01 PM PDT
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:40:09 PM PDT
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To: chance33_98
Wouldn't be bound for Muslims in America now would it? Nawwwww...religion of peace
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:40:21 PM PDT
by
kellynla
("C" 1/5 1st Mar Div Viet Nam '69 & '70 Semper Fi)
To: Tai_Chung
Is it possible for there to be a "Huge Weapons Shipment" from China without the consent of the Chinese government?Freelancers could organize their own deal and pocket the proceeds for themselves instead of PLA, Inc. getting it.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:41:08 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
To: Tai_Chung
Is it possible for there to be a "Huge Weapons Shipment" from China without the consent of the Chinese government?Depends on how you define "government". China has a very old and active smuggler tradition, and plenty of organized crime. So yeah, probably customs inspectors and others are bribed to look the other way. But that is not the same as policy.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:41:53 PM PDT
by
dark_lord
(The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
To: chance33_98
Is this considered illegal, or merely a curiosity?
(There are LOTS of weapons imports from China to the US. LOTS.)
To: chance33_98
.......inspectors seized more than 700 handguns, 900 magazines, and 450 shotguns from a container at the port on June 28. ?.....this 'throw-down' catch from China is a bad 'joke', right?
Maybe, the real shipment.....700,000...900,000........450,000.........got through undetected?
THAT.....would be 'huge'.
IMO
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
maestro
To: kellynla; chance33_98
IMO, China = communists = enemy of the US. The sooner the average Joe figures this out the sooner we get to put an end to the real puppeteers.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:46:42 PM PDT
by
Kudsman
(LETS GET IT ON!!! The price of freedom is vigilance. Tyranny is free of charge.)
To: Kudsman
Won't get any argument out of me. I had enough experience and saw the intelligence first hand in Nam to know who was backing the NVA and the VC.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:49:28 PM PDT
by
kellynla
("C" 1/5 1st Mar Div Viet Nam '69 & '70 Semper Fi)
To: maestro
Huge?? What's so huge about 700 handguns, 900 magazines, and 450 shotguns. Most mid-size police departments have more firearms in inventory.
If I went to a weekend gun show that had as few as this number, I'd feel I wasted my time. Huge to Ma Brady maybe as she wants them all banned and confiscated.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:49:41 PM PDT
by
RicocheT
To: Poohbah
Those weapon smugglers are such loosers.
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:50:59 PM PDT
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: chance33_98
There's more to this story than what's in the article. Was this a legal shipment between the Chinese and some central American country or business? The Chicoms export weapons legally all the time. If so, why were they seized...just because the ship parked in Portland on the way? I would hope that there was some illegal component to this shipment. Golly gee, handguns and shotguns. That sounds dangerous! Why, they could hit any American city from 20 yards away!
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:56:43 PM PDT
by
Sender
To: RicocheT
You ARE correct!!
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posted on
07/10/2003 12:58:52 PM PDT
by
maestro
To: *bang_list
Bang!
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