Passenger Airplanes were Targeted by CHINESE Shoulder-Fired Missiles, to be Carried by COSCO through Pier J

In April 2006, a Chinese-American was convicted in Los Angeles of trying to smuggle 200 CHINESE-made QW-2 shoulder-fired missiles into the United States, says the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

These 200 anti-aircraft missiles are like American ‘stingers.’ These portable, shoulder-fired missiles can shoot down and destroy civilian passenger jets, or B-52's or B-1 bombers taking off during a military crisis. A guerrilla or terrorist could jump out of a car near an airport, pull the missile off the car seat, put it on his shoulder, shoot down an airplane, and then zoom away in a speeding car before anyone realized what was happening.

Passenger jets taking off or landing at US airports could be shot out of the sky to spread chaos and economic panic in the United States. This could be done anonymously by handing the missiles off to gangs or terrorist groups. Or it could be done in the opening stages of any military conflict.

The FBI uncovered the plot during their "Operation Smoking Dragon." The proposal was to sell 24 shipping containers. That is, the missiles were packed for shipping on COSCO ships through Pier J in Long Beach, controlled by COSCO as an arm of the Chinese government.

These 200 shoulder-fired missiles (in their crates and with other equipment) would have been smuggled through Pier J in the Port of Long Beach aboard COSCO ships.

Chinese General Wang and a Chinese government-run company named Xinshidai were behind the missile-smuggling conspiracy, reports Bill Gertz of the Washington Times.

PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION to pass the Seaport Security Act and kick the communist Chinese out of Long Beach Pier J. China can still send their cargo ships to America. But the ships should be unloaded onto US soil by American longshoreman, supervised by American managers, with the facilities controlled by Americans.