50-Foot Boat Seized off Oakland

Coast Guard cutters shred night fog 200 yards off Oakland's port, grappling a 50-foot smuggling vessel whose cramped hold bulges with 5000 keys of ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel—lethal cocktail primed to shatter the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Point. Leo and Fitzwallace hurl details at Bartlet, vessel's phantom menace exploding across Oval Office tension, spotlights imagined raking its deck as commandos swarm aboard.

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Purpose

Transport explosive materials for terrorist attack on Golden Gate Bridge

Significance

Foiled interception links Qumari Minister Abdul Shareef to Golden Gate demolition plot via Bahji operative, thrusting Bartlet's administration into pre-visit diplomatic crisis and ultimatum firestorm

Appearances in the Narrative

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S3E19 · The Black Vera Wang

Bartlet Demands Proof of Shareef's Golden Gate Terror Link

Central to the briefing, the 50-foot boat seized by Coast Guard off Oakland is detailed as the smuggling vessel boarded 200 yards from port, its interception foiling the plot and thrusting intercepted peril into Oval deliberations on Shareef's complicity.

Before: Operational, smuggling toward target off Oakland port

After: Seized and secured by Coast Guard authorities

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