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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...

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...

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...

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...

                                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...

<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>

<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>

<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>

Three giant cargo ships are being tracked by US and British intelligence on suspicion that they might be carrying Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Each with a deadweight of 35,000 to 40,000 tonnes, the ships have been sailing around the world's oceans for the past three months while maintaining radio silence in clear violation of international maritime law, say authoritative shipping industry sources. The vessels left port in late November, just a few days after UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix began their search for the alleged Iraqi arsenal on their return to the country. Uncovering such a deadly...

<p>January 12, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - A chilling videotape U.S. forces plucked out of the rubble in Afghanistan helped Singapore foil a massive al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S. naval vessels and murder American sailors and businessmen.</p> <p>The Southeast Asian island's government yesterday released the videotape and handwritten notes written in Arabic it said were found in the ruins of an al Qaeda leader's house in Afghanistan.</p>

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a "terrorist nest" and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation's deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said. Two suspected terrorists escaped arrest, Pentagon officials said. Singapore officials have also failed to locate two tons of explosives intended to be used in the attack or attacks, a military official said. Neither the Singapore government nor the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged the raid out of concern over compromising the source of ...

Sunday, 6 October, 2002, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK Oil tanker explodes off Yemen A French-owned oil tanker is on fire off the coast of Yemen after an explosion on board. Yemeni officials say they do not consider the blast an act of sabotage, but a diplomat at the French embassy told the AFP news agency it was believed to be a terrorist attack. "The oil tanker was rammed by a small boat stuffed with explosives," the French Vice-Consul, Marcel Goncalves, said. The tanker burst into flame as it headed towards the port of al Dabah on the eastern coast of...

An intensive two-year investigation by federal immigration agents in Seattle has broken the back of a crime syndicate that smuggled about 100 Chinese stowaways through West Coast ports in 1999 and 2000, Immigration and Naturalization Service officials say.INS officials credit the crackdown with curtailing the sometimes-deadly practice of smuggling illegal immigrants in cargo containers, at least to Washington ports."Container smuggling has stopped in Seattle because (INS) has investigated and (the U.S. attorney has) prosecuted these cases relentlessly," said INS spokesman Garrison Courtney. "It's no longer lucrative here."Four men in New York pleaded guilty this week to racketeering charges stemming from...

Hijackers Said to Seek Navy Targets Tue Aug 20, 3:29 PM ET By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) - Investigators believe the San Diego-based Sept. 11 hijackers who helped crash an airliner into the Pentagon ( news - web sites) initially were sent to California to pinpoint targets in the Navy's largest West Coast port, a federal law enforcement source told The Associated Press. Investigators believe al-Qaida operatives Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, who arrived in California in January 2000, most likely were assigned to identify San Diego-based Navy ships to attack, said the federal official, who...

U.S. Coast Guard personnel and federal agents were examining a cargo ship at Port Newark on Tuesday night after it triggered a radioactivity detector during a search, officials said. The radioactivity seemed to be coming from either cargo containers or from the ocean-going ship itself, which was at a wharf at the Maersk Sealand terminal, an official familiar with the incident said. Specialists from the U.S. Department of Energy were at the scene, along with FBI agents and others, the official said. At press time, authorities had not issued a finding on the source of the radioactivity. The Palermo Senator...

She may be America's most famous elected Democrat and a leading contender for her party's 2004 presidential nomination, but Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting a media pass on her nuclear terror meltdown yesterday. "This is absolutely incomprehensible to me," a spitting-mad Clinton complained to reporters Monday, after Time magazine reported that New York officials were kept in the dark about an unsourced tip that terrorists might have smuggled a nuclear device into Manhattan last October. "That is a dereliction of duty on the part of whomever in the federal government knew about the alleged threat," hysterical Hillary ranted. "And ...

Fox News is reporting that 25 Islamic Radical terrorists have entered the country since March, as stowaways on cargo vessels of major carriers, docking in Miami, California, and I believe Virginia. They will brief law enforcement officials tomorrow in a classified briefing about the reliability of their information.I am hoping I have not duplicated a post. I haven't seen anything on line yet about this. Fox has discussed it three times in the last half hour.

Other Groups, with Al Qaeda, Said to Threaten U.S. Last Updated: May 20, 2002 10:46 AM ET By Niala Boodhoo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic groups like Hizbollah and Egypt's Islamic Jihad could be planning to attack the United States and may be more able to do so than the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said on Monday. "Our enemy is not al Qaeda alone," Sen. Bob Graham said on NBC's "Today" show, referring to the movement believed behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States that killed more than 3,000 people....

Coast Guard warns of terrorist threat in Puget Sound 06/08/2002 The Associated Press SEATTLE - The Coast Guard warned Saturday evening of a potential terrorist threat to “maritime interests” around Puget Sound. “Based on information received across the U.S. Government, there is a credible threat to maritime interests from swimmers and divers,” Lt. Scott Casad of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Puget Sound said in a release. He said the Coast Guard had told local port officials and maritime business owners to be on guard for suspicious activity. No further details on possible targets or what triggered the warning...

WASHINGTON -- Foreign flag vessels, many of shadowy origins, now account for 90 percent of shipping into and out of the United States and could pose a security risk to the country, lawmakers were told Thursday. Of greatest concern is the "flag of convenience" system where ship owners often have no connection to the country under which their ship is registered, witnesses told a House Armed Services Committee panel. This system, said William Schubert, maritime administrator with the Transportation Department, "can inadvertently open the door for criminal and terrorist activity that would be impossible under the U.S. flag registry." "From...