The Thomas A. Baum was sold through an online auction this fall for $354,000. The buyer was a ferry service in the Virgin Islands, said N.C. Department of Transportation spokesman
man who came across the canadian border headed for seattle with a trunkload of explosives and timing devices. authorities say the suspect arrives at port angeles, washington, aboard the car ferry from victoria, british columbia. but he s nervous, acting suspiciously. it was a border guard in washington state. she stopped the man who was the driver and asked if she could look into his trunk. authorities fear he was part of a plot to launch a new year s eve attack and that he was not acting alone. there may be a connection to saudi-born terrorist osama bin laden. but as one u.s. official worries tonight, there s still a lot we don t know. in some respects he was a new kind of terrorist. in the past al qaeda operatives have been given very specific orders and direct targeting instructions. ressam, though, is given $12,000 in seed money. he s told to raise the rest of your funds, recruit your own cell, and bomb whatever you want.