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Navy warships dispatched as Spain invades seas around Gibraltar
DailyMail.uk ^ | 23rd May 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/23/2009 7:29:31 AM PDT by yankeedame

Navy warships dispatched as Spain invades seas around Gibraltar

Royal Navy warships have forced heavily armed Spanish ships to retreat from British waters around Gibraltar. Relations between the 30,000 residents of the British outpost and mainland Spain have become strained following what the Foreign Office described as 'a violation of British sovereignty'.

The warships were dispatched after Spanish ships sent boarding parties to inspect fishing boats in British waters, despite having no authority to do so.


DISPUTE: Inhabitants are concerned the Spanish authorities
want to control the British outpost of Gibraltar

The Rock's inhabitants fear Spain could damage their economy by making moves to seize control of its sea and air traffic.

The incident on May 8 is the latest in a long series since Britain was handed Gibraltar in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.

The Spanish Government has refused to recognise that territorial waters were a part of that agreement and made repeated attempts to reclaim them....

The latest incident followed a day after Gibraltar's government vowed to block EU moves to give responsibility for the environment around the Rock to Spain. A spokesman for Gibraltar's opposition GSLP/Liberal party said: 'The latest incident is far more serious than anything that has happened before. It represents a frontal challenge to British sovereignty, jurisdiction and control over Gibraltar's territorial sea. 'As such the UK must not only respond to Spain, but must also extract guarantees from Madrid that it will never happen again.'...


STAND-OFF: The Royal Navy sent warships to see off Spanish vessels
which had entered Gibraltar's waters

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; brexit; europeanunion; gibraltar; gibralter; maritime; royalnavy; shipmovement; spain; unitedkingdom
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To: autumnraine

Been awhile but there is a whole lot of history there.
Now if we can just get France and maybe Portugal involved we’ll really have something.


21 posted on 05/23/2009 8:29:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Larry Lucido
Seriously, I thought this was gonna be a 1939 thread.

Me too. "Who's poaching on my territory?"

22 posted on 05/23/2009 8:34:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: yankeedame

The Brits under their clueless socialist leaders (our socialist leader is a genius) couldn’t wipe out the New York State National Guard, let alone intimidate neo-socialist Spain.


23 posted on 05/23/2009 8:35:29 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholics voted based upon the teachings of the church, there would be no abortion and no Obomba.)
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To: yankeedame

Britain had little to risk. The moslem terrorists recently proved the Spaniards will run with their tail between their legs if they are challenged.


24 posted on 05/23/2009 8:35:43 AM PDT by gscc
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To: LongElegantLegs
Maturin’s going to be pissed...

Once the Surprise is provisioned we'll show those Spaniards a thing or two.

25 posted on 05/23/2009 8:36:55 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: nathanbedford
He is an ideologue of the left and once they gain power they can be very aggressive.

I nominate this as the post "most likely to prove prescient" in Obama's case.

With a son in the military, I view this likelihood with the utmost seriousness.

26 posted on 05/23/2009 8:39:35 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Independent Party - 'The principled always win in the long haul' - www.AIPNEWS.com)
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To: yankeedame

I’d suggest the Spainish Government consider how a similar move by Argentina worked out.


27 posted on 05/23/2009 8:39:48 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: sjmjax
I’d suggest the Spainish Government consider how a similar move by Argentina worked out.

You forgot one little minor detail, back then Maggie was in charge.

28 posted on 05/23/2009 8:41:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: dfwgator

The Spanish Navy today is quite an impressively-armed and modern force, far superior to Argentina in 1982.


29 posted on 05/23/2009 8:42:42 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhL8723V4kE


30 posted on 05/23/2009 8:55:11 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (not restricting a freedom, but punishing those who abuse their freedom to the detriment of others.)
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To: dfwgator
"You forgot one little minor detail, back then Maggie was in charge."

Roger that!

Maggie was the last Brit Prime Minister with the necessary balls.

Generations of excluding fudge pounders from military service has resulted in killing off the men and expanding the fudge pounder population to majority status....

The reality of what happened to the Brits should be the strongest argument for forming 100% pervert Battalions and placing them "into the breach"....

31 posted on 05/23/2009 8:56:56 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
Maggie was the last Brit Prime Minister with the necessary balls.

Well in the figurative sense. ;)

32 posted on 05/23/2009 8:58:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: sjmjax

New Andalusia rises again for the new leftist/islamic alliance of Spain. OK...so thats a little melodramatic I admit but not so far-fetched.


33 posted on 05/23/2009 8:58:37 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: river rat

I still maintain that the two World Wars killed off the best of the British manhood, and they will never completely recover from it. In fact, the same could be said about most of Europe.


34 posted on 05/23/2009 8:59:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: yankeedame
Interesting history and facts (I always thought Gibraltar was an island just off the coast of Spain): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar
35 posted on 05/23/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: EternalVigilance

Calling Elizabeth I. Paging Elizabeth.

Call for Sir Francis Drake. Urgent.


36 posted on 05/23/2009 9:40:53 AM PDT by combat_boots (The 5 Stages of Collapse: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47157)
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To: dfwgator
Do they still have rum, sodomy and the lash?

Yes, probably, and no, AFAIK.

37 posted on 05/23/2009 10:21:57 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: yankeedame

Royal Navy warships have forced heavily armed Spanish ships to retreat from British waters around Gibraltar...


Sorry but this whole story sounds like a little unimportant incident which has been totally hyped by some “news” reporters. let me guess how they forced them to retreat... the spanish “heavily armed armada” ;-) achieved a phone call to please turn away because they have been in british waters.
End of story


38 posted on 05/23/2009 10:26:23 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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To: Strategerist
The Spanish Navy today is quite an impressively-armed and modern force, far superior to Argentina in 1982.

The Argentine's capital ships were pretty badly out of date, but their aircraft, were fairly modern, and had been kept up to date and they had more than the Brits were able to bring to bear in theater. Their pilots were well trained also. Their disadvantage was operating at the extreme of their range, like the Luftwaffe over Britain in WW-II. The Argentine army, OTOH, was a bunch of ill trained conscripts, little more than an armed mob, with officers that didn't deserve the title.

39 posted on 05/23/2009 10:28:40 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Paladin2

Why not give Spain Porto Rico? France can have Haiti.


40 posted on 05/23/2009 11:47:32 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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