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Britain searches Indian cargo ship in terror probe
British anti-terrorist officers conducted a fingertip search of a cargo ship off the coast of southern England following a tip-off that there might be guerrilla warfare materials on board.
British anti-terrorist officers conducted a fingertip search of a cargo ship off the coast of southern England following a tip-off that there might be guerrilla warfare materials on board.
Scotland Yard said Saturday that nothing had so far been found on board the ship, the sugar-laden freighter NV Nisha, to confirm the authorities' suspicions.
The Nisha was intercepted by British special forces and the Royal Navy while still in international waters at dawn on Friday. It was later moved and was lying Saturday off the Isle of Wight.
A spokesman for a British Seafarers' Trade Union told the BBC that terrorists were taking advantage of lax security in the shipping industry and said that the intelligence service was watching a number of ships. ''We know that intelligence services are looking at least 20 ships at the moment,'' said Andrew Linington of the National Union of Marine Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers.
The chairman of the company that owns the Nisha told Reuters that maintaining security on merchant ships was very difficult.
The great eastern shipping company London is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian firm, the Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GESC.Bo ), based in Bombay (Mumbai).
Bureau Report
The Nisha was intercepted by British special forces and the Royal Navy while still in international waters at dawn on Friday. It was later moved and was lying Saturday off the Isle of Wight.
A spokesman for a British Seafarers' Trade Union told the BBC that terrorists were taking advantage of lax security in the shipping industry and said that the intelligence service was watching a number of ships. ''We know that intelligence services are looking at least 20 ships at the moment,'' said Andrew Linington of the National Union of Marine Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers.
The chairman of the company that owns the Nisha told Reuters that maintaining security on merchant ships was very difficult.
The great eastern shipping company London is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian firm, the Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GESC.Bo ), based in Bombay (Mumbai).
Bureau Report