Posted on 06/13/2019 12:49:44 AM PDT by tired&retired
Two tankers have been targeted this morning while transiting waters near to Fujairah. Frontline’s fully laden LR 2Front Altair was hit by surface attacks, and an enormous fire ensued forcing the crew to abandon ship. The crew were safely picked up by nearby general cargoship, Hyundai Dubai. Bernhard Schulte’s chemical tanker Kokuka Courageous was also hit.
“The last 4 they are claiming were Limpet magnetic mines possibly placed by divers.”
That’s a joke. The maritime industry is doing disinformation to protect shipping and trade.
Hit above the water line = cruise missile. The Iranians have hundreds of varying types of cruise missiles deployed on the gulf. Some of them have ranges in excess of 900 miles.
This ship was only 25 miles from shore. It could have been targeted by Iranian shore radar.
Well, that's interesting... There's not a lot of trust to be found in ANYTHING going on in the world nowadays...
You're so entertaining it's a real shame you only show up when the Ukraine gets another influx of cash from Soros and his Hillarycrat criminal pals
who is that poor child holding Michael Jacksons hand.
Iran has saved 44 sailors from the tankers and took them to its territory, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.@@@@@@@@
“iran has taken 44 sailors hostage......more to come......”JMO
“Not US ships, not our problem.”
1. One of the ships is flagged in American Samoa.
2. The free flow of commerce on the open seas has been a US burden since the time of Thomas Jefferson. It’s the entire purpose of the best Navy in the world.
The entirety of Western Civilization is dependent upon #2 above.
LOL! Yet it was the Soros-supported DEMOCRATS who were actually colluding with your Russian pals! In fact, not only did the Soros-supported Democrats help your guy Putin out significantly on critical matters such as missile defense and nukes, including the New Start nuke treaty and the Iran nuke deal that Putin loved so much and boasted to have played a strong role in formulating, there was also the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal, where the Soros-suppported Dems allowed your Russian pals to seize control of 20% of US uranium production! The Soros-supported Dems also colluded with your Russian buds via Ukraine, through the PRO-RUSSIA people there. As you well know, there are two sides in the Ukraine, one pro-US, the other pro-Putin/pro-Russia.
So save your dishonest bullsh*t for someone who doesn't know anything about what's going on.
If you're not being paid by Ukraine for spewing the Hillary/Soros party line you're just plain, flat out, stupid.
Any word lately from John Kerry and DiFiChi?
Spewing the Hillary/Soros party line??? I just stuck the facts down your phony a** throat! That it was the Soros-supported DEMOCRATS who helped your Russian comrades in so many substantial ways! How in the friggin world is that "spewing the Hillary/Soros party line"?? You really are a despicable lying creep. Just be lucky this isn't my site,, else your fake butt would have been thrown off of here years ago.
Sink every Iranian flagged ship on Earth......................
Torpedoed?
Hold up. If ME oil gets expensive because of insurance, that is good for US oil. Iran is trying to make us some money.
Um, no, unless you forgot your sarc tag. Sanity must prevail. “Above the waterline” and “limpet mines” means small surface craft and people without military skills or capital ships.
Anyone could have perpetrated these attacks and determining who these people are is the only way to identify the funding source, not going after Iran directly.
I’m deeply suspicious of a false flag.
Thank-you for the link. I had no idea we sank half of Iran’s fleet 30 years ago.
“false flag”
In consideration of “above the waterline” and “limpet mines”, yes indeed. IMHO.
Bush 41 was at EIGHTY or better approval after the war.
The msm killed him with lies about the economy.
Go and look up the above. It’s true
Or don’t :)
I’m usually not one of the older ones in a conversation but maybe you were too young to remember back then.
That would put you in your 30s and make me envious :)
“Above the waterline”
And the fact that internal hulls were only marginally damaged indicate a non-state actor.
Not to mention the fact these ships are still afloat.
The one on fire was carrying Naphtha. 75,000 tons of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha
Huge tankers and container ships have led to globalization which has it’s good and bad points.
If these ships are less likely to reach their destination, they will be less used, and globalization will be reduced.
Doesn’t sound like a bad thing.
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