Terror suspect 'had Navy plans'

[Annie]

I don't know why they seem surprised by this:


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Gibraltar may be target, warns first sea lord

Giles Tremlett
Friday August 6, 2004
The Guardian

The first sea lord, Admiral Sir Alan West, warned yesterday that al-Qaida and its supporters had added merchant shipping to their list of potential terrorism targets as they sought new ways to disrupt global trade.
"We are aware that they have plans and they've looked at this," Admiral West, Britain's most senior naval officer, told the shipping newspaper Lloyd's List. "We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat."