AP: Terrorists Train for Seaborne Attacks

MANILA, Philippines - Two of the most dangerous al-Qaida-linked groups in Southeast Asia are working together to train militants in scuba diving for seaborne terror attacks, according to the interrogation of a recently captured guerrilla.

The ominous development is outlined in a Philippine military report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press that also notes increasing collaboration among the Muslim militants in other areas, including financing and explosives, as extremists plot new ways to strike.

In the past year, the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah has given Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines at least $18,500 for explosives training alone, the report said.

The report comes a month after the U.S. Coast Guard (news - web sites) announced it is seeking to better protect the nation's ports from terrorist attacks by scuba divers by developing a sonar system that can distinguish human swimmers from dolphins.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_re_as/undersea_terrorists

Do these idiots in DC ever give up on this crazy shit?

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to scare the public again....

hoses.

assure you, this won't be happening.

My ex-husband used to say that if God/Allah had wanted him to swim, he wouldn't have given him life in the middle of a freaking desert.

Not HUGE swimmers, those Arabs.

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or a team-building retreat.

If you don't support the changes to social security, terrorists are going to attack from the sea!!!

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They could take down whole port cities that way, according to "unnamed sources".

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This is why we need to privatize Social Security. All I could think when I read this is, no, not this bullshit again. Why all the terror talk in the past two days? What are they trying to put over on us again? What secret appointment or potential scandal is this diverting attention away from now?

Osama's scuba divers will have already won.

WTF Bizarro universe are we living in now, anyway?

Just set me up in a beach front home in Tahiti, and I'll set up a perimeter. Any enemy scuba divers I see, I'll give you a ring. You can rest easy now, I'm on the case!
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Oh, and raise the threat level to mango.

As usual, there are more hysterical articles about terrorists than there are terrorists.

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Edited just to mention:

As I wend my way through Manhattan, I try to stay on the sidewalks and out of the rivers. So far, I've been successful. Unless the scuba divers come through the sewers, I think I'll be alright.