6/30/2004 02:24:08 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Scant on details, but Drudge has some lead on a reported plot to attack the Panama Canal.

Leonel Sauceda confirmed Security Minister Oscar Alvarez's comments to local media that the 38-year-old suspect -- identified as Adnan Guishar El Shukrijumah, or Jafar al-Tayar, who was in Honduras late last month -- "planned to plant explosives in the Panama Canal to hamper boat traffic in the area."

Four percent of the world's shipping goes through the canal. It sounds like a small number, but the economic ripple effect would be felt worldwide.

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