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

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Hey Doc, you got that right!  BTW, what's it like on the other side?  
Carl


Doc wrote:
> 
>  I'm personally convinced some "reporters" will say anything to sell a story,
> after all it was just a year ago that I was dead and  BinLadin was going to blow
> up the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate bridge with a 12 foot Bionic Dolphin!
>  I still think these "fear feeding frauds" that write this crap should be prosecuted!
> Paranoia in America is what the terrorists are after and our so called journalists are
> gleefully helping them achieve their objective.
> 
> Just a dead man's opinion.
> 
> Doc
> 
> Herve wrote:
> 
> > anybody can confirm the authenticity of this article ?
> > sounds like a new urban legend or some kind of bad joke
> > definitively an hoax for me
> > Herve
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael B Holt" <tlohm@juno.com>
> > To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:32 PM
> > Subject: [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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