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| Scenarios for maritime terrorist attacks |
| 2006-04-07 |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Suddenly, I got nothin' to say. |
| Posted by: Yusef Islam 2006-04-07 07:00 |
| #4 Joe, its happening. Largely un-noticed, there is a big effort to secure the supply chain. Such that the source of everything is known and no tampering occurs along the way. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-04-07 22:08 |
| #3 Iff airports can X-ray/image both passengers and passenger possessions, seaports can do the same both during both loading and unloading, plus for tractor-trailers and aboard ship(s) itself. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-07 21:56 |
| #2 Terrorists could hijack an LNG [Liquefied Natural Gas] tanker and blow it up in Singapore harbor. And to continue my nitpicking about the article. Singapore doesn't have a harbour, in the sense the word is generally understood (excepting Changi Naval Base). It doesn't need one. The waters of the Singapore Strait are sheltered and being on the equator, it doesn't experience high winds. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-04-07 02:11 |
| #1 My latest War on Terror novel, Sea of Fire combines the first two scenarios. You can buy in paperback or pdf form here. I should have a free version up in a day or so. I'll post a link when I do. BTW, they (jamestowm.org) are wrong about a single ship not being able to block the shipping channel at One Fathom Bank. The channel is 0.6 kilometers (600 meters) wide. A Very Large Crude Carrier of 250,000 tons is 330 meters long. Sink it sideways in the channel and you have blocked it. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-04-07 01:36 |