Ship searched for nuclear material (New Jersey)

[charrison]

U.S. Special Operations forces on Thursday joined members of the Energy Department?s Nuclear Emergency Search Team on board a Liberian-flagged container ship off the coast of New Jersey to search for nuclear material, Pentagon officials told NBC News.

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[charrison]

shameless bump...

 

[Rallispec]

that could suck

 

[AvesPKS]

I was going to mention my surprise at the Coast Guard not being involved, but then I read the article. Good job, Coasties!

 

[charrison]

Sounds like this ship either has something hot on it, or had something hot on it.

Either way is not good.

 

[XMan]

The Palermo Senator is owned by the firm Reederei F. Laeisz of Hamburg, Germany, and regularly plies the route between New York and the Far East. Its last port of call was Valencia, Spain, but in the past several weeks it has stopped and picked up cargo in a number of ports, including Bandar Abbas, Iran; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Alarm bells are going off in my head . . . Atta and several other of the 9/11 hijackers lived in Hamburg . . . not to mention it's last few ports of call.

 

[sandorski]

Could possibly be nothing serious. More than nukes give off radiation and I haven't a clue how long radiation would be present after handling various forms of radioactive materials.

Hopefully it's not something being smuggled in. I'd assume in such a case that the something has already been off loaded onto a smaller craft that won't be subject to Coast Guard/Customs scrutiny. :Q

 

[BCYL]

Well at least they caught it and now inspecting the ship... so even if there's really a radioactive device on board it shouldnt do too much damage...