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...minutes later, Cummins makes radio contact with the tender. The boarding party has been successful; there's been no struggle. A preliminary search has found evidence of shark fin, fresh blood, baited hooks, long lines, three floats and a compass. A report is prepared and faxed to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority; Cummins is recommending that the boat, Merauke-based Buna Perawan, be apprehended and towed back to Thursday Island. But first Cummins wants the eight fishermen to retrieve their buoys and lines; Coastwatch has located the gear 9 nautical mi. away. "The lines are an environmental hazard," says Geoff...
...degrees. There's restrained laughter on the bridge of Hervey Bay because the aircraft has actually picked up the ACV. The error breaks the tension and, despite three attempts to call the helo by a skipper trying to keep a straight face, Lima 51 briefly drops out of radio contact...
...single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge is on course to cross 900 m in front of the ACV's bow. That's too close for comfort, and a warning light begins to flash. On VHF channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that! Roger that!" replies Radon, eager to escape an inquisition. He needs to go below to wake Joe Homer for the next watch; before Radon can bunk down, he must fill out the log and finish...
Much of this new information came from al-Qaeda detainees interrogated by the U.S., including captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Muhammad bin Attash, who organized the Cole attack, and from as many as 100 separate electronic intelligence intercepts. After Time.com first reported the commission's findings on contact between Iran and al-Qaeda, Iran's Intelligence Minister issued a statement on Saturday claiming that "the Intelligence Ministry has identified and dismantled all Iranian branches of the al-Qaeda movement...
...Then a contact referred Blanco to the Van Leer foundation, which agreed to fund her group. She has since expanded to a national federation with 17 regional associations. Thanks to her, several French prisons have facilities for visiting children. After three years of arm twisting, the Fleury-Merogis prison outside Paris last month let her stage the first Father's Day party for kids and their jailed dads. Blanco still has to struggle to raise money. She recently wrote to all 63 companies in her local chamber of commerce. Not one gave a euro...