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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 11, 2009, 09:34:33 AM
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"11 Apr 2009 14:12:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
ON BOARD NRB CORTE-REAL, April 11 (Reuters) - A U.S.-owned, Italian-flagged tugboat reported hijacked in the Gulf of Aden has 10 Italian citizens among its 16-member crew, according to NATO alliance officials on a warship in the region.
Lieutenant Sergio Carvalho, on the Portuguese warship NRB Corte-Real, said the tugboat issued a distress call before communications went silent six minutes later.
The NATO officials on the Portuguese ship, which was too far away to help, said the vessel appeared to have been hijacked although they could not definitively confirm that. A regional maritime group in Kenya, however, said it had firm information the tugboat had been seized. (Reporting by Alison Bevege, Writing by Andrew Cawthorne)" Link (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LB81470.htm)
It looks like the pirates are upping the ante. 0Bama , it's your turn to call or raise. What's it going to be?
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He's gonna fold out of turn.
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He's going to embarass us, again. He's to busy working on Immigration reform.
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He's going to embarass us, again. He's to busy working on Immigration reform.
Ah, that's plan, arrest the pirates and then let them immigrate to the US. :rotf:
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Ah, that's plan, arrest the pirates and then let them immigrate to the US. :rotf:
Now wait a second--they can't ALL be cab drivers at the Minneapolis airport!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dvora_class_fast_patrol_boat
This is what the U.S. needs to combat these pirates. Purchase at least three squadrons of them from the IDF and operate them along the same lines as the Brown Water Navy did in Vietnam.
These boats are fast enough and are armed heavily enough to counter the pirates on the open ocean.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dvora_class_fast_patrol_boat
This is what the U.S. needs to combat these pirates. Purchase at least three squadrons of them from the IDF and operate them along the same lines as the Brown Water Navy did in Vietnam.
These boats are fast enough and are armed heavily enough to counter the pirates on the open ocean.
We already have similar craft. They operate in support of SEALs, etc.
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And inaction by The Anointed One emboldens the pirates yet again....no surprise to me.
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What really seems to make this worse, IMO, is the fact that this seems like a direct challenge to the US and 0Bama. These pirates have in the past taken cargo ships with valuable cargo for the most part. This is an intentional taking of an American flagged vessel with no cargo and Italian crew. A direct challenge to the impotence of 0Bama.
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I heard a talking head on the news say that all these pirates want is money. B.S.!!!! This is a stick in the eye of a new administration. Meanwhile, TOTUS is spouting and sputtering....heaven help us.....
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The silence of the most powerful country in the world on Pirates has sent a loud message to those wishing to do us and our allies harm.
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If we wimp out, pirate activity will spring up all over the world.
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If we wimp out, pirate activity will spring up all over the world.
I would not be surprised .
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The italian president will act before Obama.....I'm taking bets....
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So is this the "test" Biden warned us about? Or is it the tip of the iceberg. My thoughts, the manner in which Obama handles this situation will be send out a strong message...a "don't mess with us" or a "Open Season on the USofA" My fear unfortunately is that it will be the latter...
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The italian president will act before Obama.....I'm taking bets....
Bersculoni, the "Italian Ronald Reagan", you mean? He's far more insane than Reagan ever was, but I'll take the bet on your side. Again, the American president is more of a pu$$y than that Italian.
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Bersculoni, the "Italian Ronald Reagan", you mean? He's far more insane than Reagan ever was, but I'll take the bet on your side. Again, the American president is more of a pu$$y than that Italian.
Reagan was never insane. He was the Best President this nation has seen in a long time. We need one like him now.
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Reagan was never insane. He was the Best President this nation has seen in a long time. We need one like him now.
Too bad we can ressurect him.
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L'il 'O doesn't mind acting all puffed-up when it comes to law-abiding republicans disagreeing with him over policy but when REAL threats to Americans are manifest he proves just how craven he really is.
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The italian president will act before Obama.....I'm taking bets....
If you mean you're betting that the Italian PM will act before Zero, I won't take that bet.
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If you mean you're betting that the Italian PM will act before Zero, I won't take that bet.
That's exactly what I am saying.
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Too bad we can ressurect him.
Have you given up hope :uhsure: :-)
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If we wimp out, pirate activity will spring up all over the world.
With the weak message being sent by B. Hussein over a bunch of two-bit high-sea bandits, pirate activity will be the least of our worries. It's the USA leadership unable to face possible death of a individual that causes the whole country to be viewed as a paper tiger to these rouge countries and organizations. They've admitted outloud that's exactly how we come across. I don't want the boat captain or anyone else to die either, but these groups don't look at it that way, they look at it as a whole country unwilling to fight because one person might get hurt. I mean, if you were of a criminal nature and knew you could walk into a town and rob every bank, and the worst they would ever do is stare at you with a mean face, then why not rob every bank in town?
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So is this the "test" Biden warned us about? Or is it the tip of the iceberg. My thoughts, the manner in which Obama handles this situation will be send out a strong message...a "don't mess with us" or a "Open Season on the USofA" My fear unfortunately is that it will be the latter...
I believe this is the "test"....
We have seen Zero's "spine of steel" in his interaction with the Saudi king....
Biden's "test" of Zero's "spine" has only one result: FAIL!!!
Zero has neither spine nor balls....
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...I don't want the boat captain or anyone else to die either, but these groups don't look at it that way, they look at it as a whole country unwilling to fight because one person might get hurt. I mean, if you were of a criminal nature and knew you could walk into a town and rob every bank, and the worst they would ever do is stare at you with a mean face, then why not rob every bank in town?
A mean stare, and a harsh word.... :gay2:
Not to mention all those meetings condemning the robberies.... :kumbaya:
Now, THAT'S LEADERSHIP! :rotf:
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"Other bandits, among hundreds who have made the Gulf of Aden the world's most dangerous waterway, seized an Italian tugboat off Somalia's north coast Saturday as it was pulling barges, said Shona Lowe, a spokeswoman at NATO's Northwood maritime command center outside London." US ship, choppers, shadow hostage captain, pirates (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090412/ap_on_re_af/piracy)
I notice that they have changed it to an Italian tugboat, instead of an American tug with an Italian crew. Why?
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I notice that they have changed it to an Italian tugboat, instead of an American tug with an Italian crew. Why?
Easy.
It removes the pressure from Zero of actually having to do something....
This way, WHEN whatever "military" action Zero takes goes FUBAR, "The One" can claim that it wasn't him....
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Easy.
It removes the pressure from Zero of actually having to do something....
This way, WHEN whatever "military" action Zero takes goes FUBAR, "The One" can claim that it wasn't him....
That "WHEN" is more like a big IF .