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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Submarine Prowling Lake - Caveat Lector: Hoax or Early Warning?
Iraqi Submarine Prowling Lake Michigan
Friday November 22, 2002
DETROIT, Mich. -- Fiendish Iraqi terrorists are lurking beneath Lake
Michigan in one or more mini-submarines, poised to launch a deadly
attack
on America, a military insider warns.
"We know they're down there but we don't know exactly where," claims the
U.S. Navy source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"That lake is larger than the entire state of Israel and the sub is
quite
small, making it extremely difficult to detect on sonar.
"But the frightening thing is that between natural waterways,
underground
rivers and man-made canals, Lake Michigan is linked to all the other
Great
Lakes -- it's all one big water system.
"That puts the terrorists in a perfect position to launch an amphibious
sneak attack on any one of at least six states, including Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York.
"And if they access the Erie Canal, that would take them to the Hudson
River and enable them to strike at New York City."
The subs that have been spotted so far are similar in design to Japanese
mini-subs which can carry up to six passengers and stay submerged for
days
at a time.
Authorities have intercepted transmissions that seem to be coming from
the
mini-subs, with voices speaking in Arabic. Translators have interpreted
the voices saying, "The Iron Fish are ready to bite."
The Bush administration is keeping the crisis under wraps to avoid
nationwide panic, the source claims.
"The White House is weighing its options because, at this point, they're
not sure how many subs might be down there. There could be dozens of
these
things," notes the Navy man. "If we start carpet-bombing the Great Lakes
with depth charges -- which is what it may take to get these SOBs --
people may feel the war has come to their own back yards."
The spokesman stressed that these subs are too small to carry nuclear
weapons, but added, "They could still be smuggling in nuclear materials
to
manufacture weapons of mass destruction right here in the U.S."
Navy SEALS have been searching Lake Michigan, but they've found no sign
of
any mini-subs so far. But civilian sightings of the subs have continued
at
an alarming rate.
"I was fishing off my boat early one morning," one local fisherman says,
"and I hooked something so big,
I thought maybe I had caught the Lake Michigan monster. I tried to reel
it
in, but then I saw a periscope come up. You can't even begin to imagine
my
surprise when I found out I'd hooked a mini-sub."
The fisherman dropped his rod in the water and raced back to shore as
fast
as his boat would carry him.
"I'm lucky I got out of there alive," he says. "That thing could've
blown
my boat to smithereens."
One witness claims to have seen a mini-sub on the Michigan side of the
lake at the exact same time his friend on the Wisconsin side saw a
different
one.
"That means there could be hundreds of terrorists, hiding beneath our
lakes, just waiting to launch an attack on our shores," one insider
says.
It is not known how the Iraqis transported the sub into Lake Michigan.
"They could've built it right in Michigan, or they may have built it
outside the
country and sailed it in. God knows there are enough raw materials in
Detroit to build a fleet of mini-subs."
The sub's stealth capabilities and the murky depths of the
925-foot-deep,
307-mile-long Lake Michigan have made it extremely difficult to locate.
One expert notes, "We don't know exactly what those terrorists are doing
in our lakes but one thing we do know is that they're not out
joy-riding, and
they're not offering to take people out for submarine rides."
The expert ends with an ominous warning: "If we don't do something about
those subs soon, we'll be in big trouble."
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