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12 Egyptian Sailors Rescued to al-Bassel Hospital in Tartous, Syria
Syrian News Agency ^
| 7/15/2006
| Ahmad F. ZAHRA
Posted on 07/15/2006 5:54:55 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Twelve Egyptian sailors have been rescued and taken to al-Bassel Hospital in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous on Saturday after their ship which was in offshore Beirut in the Lebanese international waters was fired at, set ablaze by an Israeli barge that was firing at random in all directions. Thus must be the ship that was hit by an "over" missile fired by Hizbullah and/or Iranian revolutionary guards.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:32:38 PM PDT
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El Gato
To: Southack
Phalanx. If they are telling the truth, that's what they'd see from their perspective if a Phalanx was shooting at a sea-skimmer.If you're dumb enough to accept that anyone could or would mount phalanx on a barge... yeah.
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posted on
07/15/2006 11:26:18 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Dallas59
That's some Nice Spin There!!!!!!, Where's Bubba?
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posted on
07/15/2006 11:28:23 PM PDT
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cmsgop
( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
To: El Gato
Thus must be the ship that was hit by an "over" missile fired by Hizbullah and/or Iranian revolutionary guards. Well there must have been two merchant ships which got hit and both just happened to take 12 casualties who were Egyptian. I mean, the Syrians wouldn't lie to us would they? /s
To: Publius6961
Could be a translation issue. You've got a Syrian reporter talking to Egyptian sailors in Lebanon, going into an English news report.
"Barge" may not be the most accurate version of their story.
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posted on
07/16/2006 12:15:58 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
It seems the Phalanx was turned off.
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07/16/2006 6:15:41 AM PDT
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dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
To: Southack
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666354/postsBrigadier-General Noam Page of the Navy said in a press conference Saturday that the Navy was unaware that a missile threat existed in the sector, and that the boat's crew had acted accordingly.
Missile boats are equipped with a missile interception system capable of automatically intercepting any missile or aircraft approaching it. However, as the boat was operating in an area where a large number of IDF planes were present, the Navy had refrained from activating the system.
Navy sources said that had they known the Hizbullah was in possession of missiles of the type used against the boat Saturday, the missile interception system would have been turned on.
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07/16/2006 6:19:32 AM PDT
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dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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