Posted on 10/20/2008 11:08:24 AM PDT by esryle
Pray for the safety of our sailors.
Few things are more scary than a General Quarters Fire Call with “This is not a drill!”
When you’re dealing with folks who are brilliant enough to think it’s a good idea to blow themselves to bits, so some guy can advance his agenda, and they are actually convinced they will have 72 virgins patiently waiting with throbbing loins, who knows what miscalculations could be made.
(warning: diagramming has been proven to be dangerous to you mental health :-)
SPY PIGEONS
Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected “spy pigeons” near Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment facility, the reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday.
One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the report cited an unnamed informed source as saying, adding that some metal rings and invisible strings were attached to the bird.
“Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings,” the source was quoted as saying of the second pigeon.
The source gave no further description of the pigeons, neither their current status nor what their fate will be.
Natanz is home to Iran’s heavily-bunkered underground uranium enrichment plant, which is not far from Kashan.
The activity is the focus of Iran’s five-year standoff with the West, which that fears it aims to develop nuclear weapons.
Tehran vehemently denies the charge.
Last year, Iran issued a formal protest over the use of espionage by the United States to produce a key intelligence report on the country’s controversial nuclear programme.
Theres nothing on the web but blogs referring back to the original story.
It’s customary yo ping a FReeper when you name him in a post...
secretly moved the vessel
Not that secret if it’s on here huh?
Pigeon's only go home - so I don't quite get this story... Can you explain?
Obama will have our Navy surrendering to the Iranians like the British sailors did.
Yep, they watched "Mythbusters" and thought it was a great idea...
Fire is the biggest threat at sea.
Regardless of the cause, Fire on a ship is a very frightening thing indeed. And which is why every sailor is trained at fighting fires.
“I didn’t know the UN had a Navy.”
They will as soon as Obama is sworn in as president.
Ships are secretly being moved off the coast of Kuwait where they are repainting them, removing the words “United States” and replacing it with the words “United Nations”, in preperation of Obama’s assention to the presidency.
Is it possible to be POTUS and UN Secretary General at the same time? I guess we’re about to find out.
Mrs. Wabash, my applogies to Smokin’ Joe and Sparkey, where ever they are, ah cha cha...
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The Iranians think pigeons are spying on them.
I would immagine this is a bad time to be an Iranian pigeon.
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Add a Nobel prize to that and you have a weener.
A friend of mine was a boom operator on a USAF air tanker. His detatchment was assigned to Midway island in the early ‘60s. He got caught by the base commander — a NAVY Captain — spraypainting USAF insignia on the goonie birds that soared around the island in the tradewinds. I don’t know how much more that the military can punish a guy — he was already serving on Midway.
Now you know that some bored soldier in Iraq is busy snaring pidgeons & banding them just to Eff with the Iranians.
Nope I'm not running for (or from) anything.
Press TV's way of saying they think the election's in the bag for Obama.
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