Posted on 10/11/2024 11:40:25 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Mona Gunn, who lost her son Cherone, says, "There is no closure."
NORFOLK, Va. — This week marks 24 years since the terrorist attack on USS Cole.
The Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer was docked in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000, for refueling when al-Qaida suicide bombers attacked, killing 17 sailors and 37 injured crew members. It is considered one of the darkest days in U.S. Navy history.
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We owe Yeman sustained ArcLight B-52 bombing, for a month+.
Put Diego Garcia to work!
Occidental Petroleum exchanged Occidental's oil and gas interests in the Philippines and Malaysia for Shell's oil and gas interests in Yemen and Colombia. [SEC PDF file - Occidental Petroleum Company, Form 10-K]
Excerpts:
Yemen
Occidental owns a 38 percent working interest in the 310,000-acre Masila Block. CanadianOxy is the operator, with a 52 percent working interest. Occidental’s net share under a production-sharing contract was 30,400 barrels per day in 1999 compared to 24,700 barrels per day in 1998.
The increase in production in 1999 reflects the acquisition, effective September 1998, of Royal Dutch Shell’s interests in oil- producing properties in Yemen and Colombia complementary to Occidental’s existing properties in exchange for Occidental’s interests in undeveloped gas discoveries in Malaysia and the Philippines, plus approximately $89 million in cash (collectively, the “Shell Exchange”).
Occidental also acquired a 28.6 percent working interest in the East Shabwa Block from Unocal Yemen effective August 1999. Occidental’s net share under a production-sharing contract averaged 1,850 barrels per day in 1999.
The USS Cole was sent to Yemen as a show of "interest," because of Al Gore's interest in Occidental Petroleum.
Has been my guesstimate.
And there was a Rule of Engagement for the occasion: "DON'T." So, the ship was not prepared to defend itself.
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How the Gores, father and son, helped their patron Occidental Petroleum [The Center for Public Integrity, 01/10/2000]
Excerpts:
"[On] Oct. 6, 1997, the Energy Department announced that the government would sell its interest in the 47,000-acre Elk Hills reserve to Occidental Petroleum Corp. for $3.65 billion. It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental’s U.S. oil reserves overnight. During the months after the sale, Occidental tripled the amount of natural gas extracted from the field.
Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn’t. Instead it hired a private company, ICF Kaiser International, Inc., to complete the assessment. The general chairman of Gore’s presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on the board of directors.
Just hours after the announcement of the Elk Hills sale, Gore stood across town on the campus of Georgetown University and delivered a speech to the White House Conference on Climate Change on the “terrifying prospect” of global warming, a problem he attributed to the unchecked use of fossil fuels such as oil.
Interesting. Thank you.
I just read that Diego Garcia might be in trouble.Britain has claimed that island for decades...if not centuries...but they just agreed to drop that claim. If that is,in fact,the case,that means that another nation...or,perhaps,the island’s residents...will take control.
The US isn’t the only country now controlled by its Deep State.
If the ChiComs want Diego Garcia, it’s theirs.
“I just read that Diego Garcia might be in trouble.”
It looks like for now Diego Garcia is not part of the deal to return the islands to Mauritius.
I just picked one, but several sources confirmed this.
Thank you. Absolutely disgusting. But absolutely predictable, completely in line with Al Gore’s moral compass.
btt
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