BREAKING NEWS: POSSIBLE BOMB ON SHIP OFF US COAST

[usa320]

WASHINGTON — A report of a bomb aboard a Turkish merchant ship Thursday forced the U.S. Coast Guard (search) to escort the vessel away from the port of Philadelphia and out into the sea off Delaware, senior Defense officials told FOX News.

The ship's master notified authorities about the possible bomb, officials said. The information was revealed after the captain refused to have portions of the ship searched by the Coast Guard.

Upon reaching a safe distance off the coast, officials expect to inspect the ship.

This particular vessel is well known to authorities and its prior movements had been tracked, senior Defense officials said.

Stay with the FOX News Channel and FOXNews.com for more information.

FOX News' Bret Baier and Ian McCaleb contributed to this report.



Definately disturbing...

Who the hell does the captain think he is telling us we cant search the ship? We have every right to search any ship entering US waters...

After he told us we couldnt search the ship we should have went in with a VBSS team and done it anyways- and told the captain to stuff it.

[Sayeret]

Who the hell does the captain think he is telling us we cant search the ship? We have every right to search any ship entering US waters...

They're going to force them to let them on the ship if they think there is a bomb onboard.

[Saranof]

Who the hell does the captain think he is telling us we cant search the ship? We have every right to search any ship entering US waters...



If you had a load of illegal cargo onboard, you woudn't let people search your ship, would you? Sheer logic.

[Sayeret]

If you had a load of illegal cargo onboard, you woudn't let people search your ship, would you? Sheer logic.


They're going to force them to let them on the ship if they think there is a bomb onboard.

[Marsuitor]

Who the hell does the captain think he is telling us we cant search the ship? We have every right to search any ship entering US waters...



If you had a load of illegal cargo onboard, you woudn't let people search your ship, would you? Sheer logic.Probably not, but these Turkish guys have absolutely no case. He's within US territorial waters, the US suspect them og having illigal "stuff" onboard. To me it sounds like the Americans have a good case for doing a search or VBSS.

[Marsuitor]

Argh! Beat me to it Sayeret! p-)

[duck]

Bomb or drugs?

[abncougar]

rock that!! go coast guard

[Sayeret]

Argh! Beat me to it Sayeret! p-)

heh, ok

[HoboWithAK]

Who would do the VBSS? USCG bording teams? The Navy?

[RomanS]

lots of Turkish prostitutes on board

[Nizark]

There was another terror-related insident today on amtrak when the washington dc- new york train was held up for an hour while bomb sniffing dogs and SRT teams searched the train for explosives and certain 'suspects'

[hood]

Exactly.. many people assume drugs or bombs.. human smuggling is extremely profitable also. I can't seem to find anything major on the news sites about this though.

[ShadowNeo]

Bomb or drugs?


Maybe something far worse..... A Bomb filled with Drugs?

[Secret Squirrel]

it's not another "spy plane shot down over Korea" story is it?

[M1A2U2]

Captain said it was a joke.

[Mark Sman]

Crew was probably jerking around the first Coast Guard team.

Then a crewman pops off a stoopid comment at a Coastie.

No doubt they had to call in a second team. Not all boarding teams are "body cavity search" qualified.

Oh they'll get a giggle over this one back at base. And another shipping line learns not to F with the USCG.

[usa320]

indeed, report now says the Captain meant it was a joke because an initial search was taking a while...

:roll:

Sounds like that stupid ass Air France pilot that joked about the bomb at JFK... didnt like security.

But they have yet to board the vessel and do an extensive search...

If nothing else at least we can now rest assured that our government IS taking the offensive in preventing another attack.

Apparently they were tracking the ship long before they even had this incident, as it was listed as "of interest".

[hood]

And even more important, stopping bad jokes well before they reach our shores. :lol:

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Geez doesnt routine checks like this happen everyday?

[Romulus]

And even more important, stopping bad jokes well before they reach our shores. :lol:

rofl