Posted on 07/16/2015 10:04:22 AM PDT by RightGeek
Full title: Terror on the high seas: Egyptian navy vessel erupts in huge fireball as ISIS carry out rocket strike on patrol ship in the Mediterranean
Extremists loyal to the Islamic State in Egypt have attacked a naval patrol ship in the Mediterranean Sea, causing it to burst into flames.
The Egyptian military said earlier a coastguard vessel had exchanged shots with militants just two miles off the coast of northern Sinai, an area bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.
There were no fatalities among the vessel's crew in the shootout with the terrorists, according to a Facebook message posted by military spokesman, Brigadier General Mohammed Samir.
ISIS declared their presence on Sinai - a peninsula popular with British holidaymakers - last November when up to 2,000 members of the already established jihadi group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis swore allegiance to ISIS' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
[SNIP] A witness, fisherman Abu Ibrahim Mohammed from the neighboring Gaza Strip, said the vessel was a gunboat that was about a nautical mile off the coast when it was struck by the rocket.
He did not hear the explosion but saw two smaller boats later trying to put out the fire and that a third, larger one later arrived and towed the burned vessel away.
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Wonder where a rocket that could that came from.
Must be muffler tubing and stuff. Couldn’t be an Obama/GOP supplied weapon.
Benghazi?
But for Obama and McCain and Hillary,
would this have happened?
Did the rescuing Egyptian navy vessel sink the ISIS boat or kill all the terrorists in the boat?
Anywhere we left out weapons. Anywhere we supplied muslims with weapons.
peace in our time
They needn’t worry. ISIS is just the JV team.
I bet it was a Russian ATGM. The Sov, er, Russians handed a bunch of ‘em out Hezbollah. It would be easy for some to reach ISIS.
Possible. They are far from innocent in all this.
bttt
At least Kerry made the US safe from them...
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Peace is breaking out all over.
ATGMs make pretty good anti-ship missiles, when you’re talking the smaller patrol craft common in the Med.
This is so sad. And we have a “president” who is gloating over this, and all “victories” the Muslims claim.
WAKE UP AMERICA! It’s time to fight!!!
Did anyone claim that Israel really did it and blamed i on ISIS/DAESH yet?
Who says they used a boat? One nautical mile is doable from shore.
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