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"It was hardly the first fishy shipment to pass through Gioia Tauro. Famously, just six weeks after 9/11, workers there heard noises coming from inside a contai
by tectonic 15y ago
"It was hardly the first fishy shipment to pass through Gioia Tauro. Famously, just six weeks after 9/11, workers there heard noises coming from inside a container being transshipped to Nova Scotia via Rotterdam. Inside, police found an Egyptian-born Canadian carrying a Canadian passport, a satellite phone, a cell phone, a laptop, cameras, maps, and security passes to airports in Canada, Thailand, and Egypt. The container’s interior was outfitted with a bed, a water supply, a heater, and a toilet. Nicknamed Container Bob, the man posted bail in Italian court and was never seen again."
- rsanchez1 15y agoA man like that shouldn't have just been let go without finding out exactly what he was doing.
- brazzy 15y agoReally? Why do you think so?
- tsotha 15y agoI dunno what he's thinking, but I agree with him because of the airport security passes. They should have held him unless he had a damn good reason for security passes to three different airports.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoBased on the contents of that container, he seemed like a high flight risk.
- Anti-Ratfish 15y agoYeah. They should have extrodina rily rendered him and tortured the hell out of him. If they can do that to random innocents I'm sure someone as suspicious as this could even be interesting o interview
- dspeyer 15y agoOr injected with a very hard to find radio tracking tag, or audio bug if that's possible, and then led to think he escaped on his own. Which might be what happened. We'll never know.
- nikcub 15y agoThe government doesn't have a right to know what everybody is doing all the time. He faces some minor charges and was released.