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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 01, 2010, 06:31:15 AM

Title: This Should be Interesting: Blockade Runners to Try Once More
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 01, 2010, 06:31:15 AM
...aboard the good ship SS Rachel Corrie.

No, really.

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Israel's Army Radio reported that the MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship, would reach Gazan waters by Wednesday.

A Marine lieutenant who was not named told Army Radio that he expected an easy takeover of the ship.

"We as a unit are studying, and we will carry out professional investigations to reach conclusions," the lieutenant said, referring to a skirmish in which his unit shot nine international activists aboard the Turkish ferry.

"And we will also be ready for the Rachel Corrie," he added.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37442104

Rumors are swirling that the IDF will be dropping a bulldozer on the ship.
Title: Re: This Should be Interesting: Blockade Runners to Try Once More
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 01, 2010, 06:35:05 AM
IDF forces, "Ship? What ship? We don't know nothing 'bout no ship."
Title: Re: This Should be Interesting: Blockade Runners to Try Once More
Post by: The Village Idiot on June 01, 2010, 08:03:06 AM
The MV Rachel Corrie will meet Operation Caterpillar Pancake!
Title: Re: This Should be Interesting: Blockade Runners to Try Once More
Post by: cavegal on June 01, 2010, 11:38:50 AM
I saw a photo of this flotilla! the first one was the size of a cruise ship! did I see that correctly? did anyone else see that? I digressed... :hammer:.... these evil people will do this until they get no more press! It reminds me of how Saddam would store children s body's in a morgue  and put them out for photo ops.
Title: Re: This Should be Interesting: Blockade Runners to Try Once More
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on June 01, 2010, 12:08:27 PM
The news reports refer to something about a ferry, I expect that big ship (Did seem pretty damned huge) is probably an oceanic ferry.  Would kind of make sense as a cargo carrier for fast unloading in primitive or indeterminate dock conditions, I suppose.

Not that I expected it to get anywhere near docking in Gaza myself, which indeed seems to have been resolved in favor of the blockading force at this point.