THE GHOST SHIPS – AT 8:57 A.M. ET:   There is a new terror threat reported from Britain – the "ghost ships."  From The Times of London:

Hundreds of ships are sailing into European waters after suspicious manoeuvres near terrorist hotspots, prompting fears that they are smuggling people and weapons with impunity.

An investigation by The Times has uncovered how cargo ships and other large vessels routinely switch off GPS tracking so they can disappear, falsify their identification or veer off their usual course.

Figures compiled by Windward, a maritime data and analytics company, revealed that in January and February 40 ships entered Europe from Libya, close to where Islamic State is operating, after “going dark” by ceasing transmission of their location. Twenty vessels travelled through Syrian or Lebanese waters and made dubious stops for up to six hours before reaching the Continent.

COMMENT:   Ships are particularly dangerous.  They can linger in areas, where aircraft can't.  They are large, and can be used, not simply to transport weapons and explosives, but as launching platforms for missiles.  One of the great fears expressed early in our war on terror was that a ship could approach an American coast, under the control of a hostile crew, and launch a missile into one of our cities.  The entire route of the missile might be only 20 miles.

Or, a ship could act as a bomb itself, carrying massive amounts of explosives in crates marked "bananas," with those explosives set off by a suicide crew inside an American port. 

The ships in the story quoted above are turning off their GPS equipment.  Friends don't do that. 

This is chilling.

March 10, 2017