80's Terrorist Cruise Ship

After the 911 terrorist attacks al-Qaida had plans to attack the most famous of cruise ships the Queen Mary 2 as she transited the Mediterranean.

80's terrorist cruise ship. When I was a kid my family lived in Tripoli Libya starting in 1965 until the 80s. Cruise ships are simply not equipped to handle a terrorist. The two cruise companies whose passengers found themselves in the middle of a terrorist drama in Tunis will likely weather this incident.

Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury liner. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to. The security implementations regarding cruise ships are relatively worthless in that they submit travel itineraries and fingerprints to Homeland Security but do nothing in the way of preventing state-sponsored terrorism.

By Jim Walker on December 11 2016. The Libyan people back then mostly Sunni Muslims were peaceful. That attack specifically targeted tourists and reports indicated that the attackers had waited for the buses to arrive from the ships.

A tragic example of maritime terrorism. Cruise ships docking in the Eastern Mediterranean are at. Libya Egypt Tunisia or Morocco are the last places on earth I would sail my family to.

AP PhotoSalah Ben Mohamed. Gopal Anand Samir Sehgal Manav Singhal and Bhaskar Arora were organisers of an event on the cruise ship during which drugs were allegedly consumed the Narcotics Control Bureau told the court. Many perceptions of maritime terrorism risks do not align with the reality of threats and vulnerabilities.

Two large cruise ships crashed together at high speed could kill as many as ten thousand people. In celebration of our maiden season January 12 to May 11 were pleased to extend the most extraordinary offer to the Panama Canal in 1985. Fortunately reliable intelligence information alerted the cruise ships of a possible threat and they diverted their port call from Turkey to Cyprus.