To: WestCoastGal
Mansoor Ijaz Rocks!!!![](http://www.saja.org/images/ijaz.jpg)
Yes, he ocassionally shows a bit of "Debka" flavor, but his depth of knownledge concerning happenings in the ME and FE is astounding.
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7,684 posted on
01/07/2004 12:43:21 PM PST by
LayoutGuru2
(Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
To: LayoutGuru2
Here's another little tidbit fron Ijaz from the same website, written October 2003.......
Data compiled by Aegis Defence Services, a UK security consultancy, provides worrying evidence of this. In March, for example, pirates boarded a chemical tanker, the Dewi Madrim, near Sabah in the south Pacific for several hours. Their intention was not to ransom the crew or offload its cargo, as south-east Asia's pirates usually do, but simply to learn how to steer it at varying speeds. And in the past few months, 10 tugboats have been reported missing, each of which could be used for close-in manoeuvring of a disabled tanker, hijacked just before entering a big port (at Singapore, say) and just before being set ablaze.
Other dangers to maritime interests are also becoming apparent. In June, for example, an offshore maintenance engineer with deep-sea diving skills, who had been kidnapped in 2000, was released by Abu Sayyaf. He reported that his captors had wanted to learn how to dive, but were not interested in learning how to resurface.
7,688 posted on
01/07/2004 12:45:34 PM PST by
WestCoastGal
("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
To: LayoutGuru2
I consider ijaz the enemy. His losing it on O'Reilly is proof.
To: LayoutGuru2
Mansoor Ijaz Rocks!!!
We need him back badly!
8,007 posted on
01/07/2004 9:38:24 PM PST by
JustPiper
(Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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