Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Submarine Prowling Lake - Caveat Lector: Hoax or Early Warning?

["Mark Steed" <plutomark@mail.astate.edu>]

Michael-You and I read the same article. Mine was in the "Weekly World News". They had a story about a man that grew a pearl in his nasal cavities as well. Regards, Mark Steed


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:32:23 -0500

>
> 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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