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Rescued migrants hijack ship, Europe officials say
AP via msn ^ | 27 Mar 2019 | uncredited

Posted on 03/28/2019 12:11:33 AM PDT by blueplum

Migrants hijacked a cargo ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean Sea and forced the crew to put the Libya-bound vessel on a course north toward Europe, authorities in two European countries said.

Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, identified the ship as the Turkish oil tanker El Hiblu 1. He said the tanker had rescued about 120 people and described what was happening as "the first act of piracy on the high seas with migrants" as alleged hijackers.

The new route put the ship on a route to Italy's Lampedusa island and the island nation of Malta. The governments of both countries vowed to keep it from their territorial waters in the Mediterranean.

"Poor castaways, who hijack a merchant ship that saved them because they want to decide the route of the cruise," Salvini, who heads the anti-migrant League party, was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency. There was no immediate word on the condition of El Hiblu 1's crew.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegalmigration; italy; malta; pirates
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To: blueplum

“Migrants “ have been hijacking everything from welfare to health care for the last twenty years or more.


21 posted on 03/28/2019 3:22:16 AM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: FES0844

No good deed goes unpunished.


22 posted on 03/28/2019 3:27:40 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: mabarker1

Talk is cheap.

When Salvini gets Italy out from under the EU, then I’ll believe he’s the real deal.


23 posted on 03/28/2019 3:32:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla

OK

30 day trial ?


24 posted on 03/28/2019 3:35:33 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: mewzilla
From a week ago....

Italy seizes rescue ship, permits migrants to land in Italy

25 posted on 03/28/2019 3:35:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mabarker1

Salvini is there to appease the hoi polloi.

If he threatens to start walking the walk, the EU threatens to start letting Italian banks fail.

Since Italy has refused to get its fiscal house in order, gets who wins that fight?

Hint: Not Italy.


26 posted on 03/28/2019 3:38:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: o-n-money

Old yellow stain.

I knew through geometric logic that there was a second key.


27 posted on 03/28/2019 3:50:55 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you . They)
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To: mabarker1
Fire up your translator and get a load of this. Really sounds like Italy is taking a hard line, don't it?

Mercantile dirottato, sbarcati i migranti a Malta: i primi una mamma con un bimbo di pochi mesi

None of those migrants, including the perps, is going anywhere.

28 posted on 03/28/2019 3:51:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Stevenfo

You’re not serious. Do you really think there is a Libya Coast Guard? There is virtually no government in Libyan.


29 posted on 03/28/2019 3:59:21 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Trudeau never saw a gay pride parade he didn't want to join.)
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To: mabarker1

Torpedoes, LOSS!


30 posted on 03/28/2019 4:02:59 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: raybbr

Really; imagine what havoc these gibsmedats will cause in whatever civilized nation they infest.

The most basic cause of this is the refusal of civilized people to breed. Western elites will not watch their fiefdoms shrink; they’ll just import foreigners to serve them.


31 posted on 03/28/2019 4:13:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kaehurowing

Make them walk the plank.


32 posted on 03/28/2019 4:24:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: blueplum

For those who don’t know the scam it works like this:

1) The migrants board ships (in various states of disrepair) along Hillary’s Libyan coast, roughly 200 miles south of Western Europe)

2) The ships sail 3 miles north, until they reach International Waters

3) The ships dump off the migrants into the Med Sea in new rafts, and with bright, new life jackets.

4) Along comes a rather large Soros-funded ship, run by a Soros-funded NGO (or UN funded), such as Doctors without Borders.

5) They see the poor migrants drifting about a few miles north of Libya and pick them up (rescuing people at sea is also required by international law).

6) The ships then have a choice, sail 3 miles south and drop off the migrants back in Libya, or sail 197 miles north and drop off the migrants in Western Europe.

7) The (Soros) people, obviously, sail north and with that yet another boatload of migrants are now in Europe.

As the article states, this (tanker) ship got to the migrants first, and decided to sail south...something that was not what the migrants signed up for and has paid the price.

This is just how fucked up things are now (pardon the French, but I can’t come up with another term that fits).


33 posted on 03/28/2019 4:46:53 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: blueplum

They’ve hijacked an entire continent, whats one ship more or less?


34 posted on 03/28/2019 4:52:18 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: blueplum
Better than that one.

America is being held hostage by illegal invaders

35 posted on 03/28/2019 5:19:39 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: blueplum
The first act of piracy by savages, on the high seas. But migrants are hijacking all of civilization elsewhere.

What's happening is absolutely incredible. Worldwide. I wouldn't believe it if it weren't happening even in the United States.

And 99% of political leaders are facilitating the takeover. Unbelievable.

36 posted on 03/28/2019 5:34:01 AM PDT by LouAvul (Socialism is the logical conclusion of liberalism. Anarchy is the logical conclusion of socialism.)
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To: blueplum

It’s a war on Europe the Roman Catholic pope has endorsed, as a “right” of the migrants.


37 posted on 03/28/2019 5:38:28 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: FES0844

After chumming the waters first. Mack the Knife.


38 posted on 03/28/2019 5:44:29 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: o-n-money

If it was the strawberries, which one of them has steel balls?


39 posted on 03/28/2019 5:52:46 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: blueplum
Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, identified the ship as the Turkish oil tanker El Hiblu 1. He said the tanker had rescued about 120 people and described what was happening as "the first act of piracy on the high seas with migrants" as alleged hijackers.

Being that it was a Turkish-registered vessel, my first thought was that this was all a put-up job: the Muslim Turkish crew picked up the Muslim Libyans and decided to stage a kabuki-play, claiming to have been hijacked by the "migrants" to see if they could convince Italian authorities to "ransom" the ship by allowing the "migrants" to reach port ...

Then, again, it may be that I need my meds adjusted ... although, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that there may not be conspiracies out there ...

40 posted on 03/28/2019 5:54:25 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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