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To: Talisker

Someone up there said, its not filled with air, so popping it won’t work. Overturning it would work. So would sniper bullets.

188 posted on 04/11/2009 8:17:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)

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[SunkenCiv]

Someone up there said, its not filled with air, so popping it won’t work. Overturning it would work. So would sniper bullets.

[SunkenCiv]

Terrorists? Criminals? Both!

• Rush in a Hurry -- Somali Pirates are Muslim Terrorists, Not Criminals
• US officials: FBI begins criminal investigation into Somali pirates amid hostage standoff (??)
• FBI to question US crew in criminal piracy probe

Co-religionist in the White House:

• Let us thank the Somali pirates
• Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists: Seeing Potential Terror Threat
• The Pirates Challenge Obama's Pre-9/11 Mentality
• Somali Pirates Tied To Jihad
• Testing Obama (The Somali Pirates just add to the List )
• Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists
• White House says Obama getting updates on pirates ("aides met at 8 a.m. and at 2 p.m.")
• DFU YouTube SING-ALONG: Barack Obama Pirate Song
• There is nothing called the 'moderate Taliban'
• Somalia: Islamist rebel leaders hail pirate attacks

Co-partisans outside the White House:

• Ron Howard Yearns for Less Powerful America Not 'Driven by Militarism'
• Schumer says "traditional values" "strong foreign policy" over, Obama "talks bipartisanship, but..."

MSM won't give party affiliation:

• US won't give in to pirate blackmail: senator (Tom Coburn)

The denouement:

• U.S. Navy Blocks Ships Coming to Aid Pirates in Standoff
• Source: Pirates repel sailors attempting to reach captain
• Negotiations Break Down in Standoff With Pirates
• Kill the pirates: As the Marines demonstrated long ago, there's only one way to end piracy
• Official: US sea captain freed in swift firefight
• Official: US sea captain faced imminent danger
• Captain jumps to freedom -- Capt. Phillips, who has been described by his crew as a hero for leaving with four pirates in a lifeboat to save his ship, the Maersk Alabama, escaped by jumping overboard. Before pirates could respond, U.S. forces killed three pirates still on the lifeboat and arrested a fourth pirate.
• Pirate Lifeboat Drifts Toward Somalia - "We are not afraid of the Americans" [How about now?]
• Official: Captain was in 'imminent danger' (Defense depart had to ask 0bama twice)

Other pirate activity:

• Pirates Take German Ship Towards Comrades Off Somalia
• Pirates Bring German Ship Into US Stand-Off ( off Somali Coast)
• Pirates seize U.S.-owned, Italy-flagged tugboat
• Pirates Hijack Second US Vessel
• Sources: U.S. tugboat hijacked by pirates
• Pirates seize 10 Italians in US - owned tugboat
• Canadian warship thwarts pirates again
• Rescued French yacht captain Florent Lemacon may have died in friendly fire PIRACY UPDATE
• Death on the high seas French commando raid brought a five-day hostage crisis to a bloody end

Destroy jihad, destroy jihadists:

• YouTube Smackdown Thread #13 - PLEASE HELP! (Update in #79 & #80)