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Iraqi 'terror ships' at sea
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3453118?source=Evening ^
Posted on 02/19/2003 1:34:10 AM PST by lightsabre
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To: lightsabre
Thanks for the post.
It's easy to start a new paragraph. Just type in < p > at the point where you want the paragraph to begin.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There's not a lot of deep water right 'off the coast of Iraq'. I wonder what map ABC 'news' looked at. Any large ship steaming in circles outside the shipping lanes in the Gulf would be very obvious
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posted on
02/19/2003 5:12:23 AM PST
by
Blueflag
To: lightsabre
there is a simple solution...sink them!
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posted on
02/19/2003 5:16:37 AM PST
by
thinking
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This report was headlined on Drudge last night. An article in the British paper Independence was "reporting" on it.
Druge now has no mention of the article.
To: zarf; lightsabre
Never, ever, ever do that again young heathen!! Ahrrrrrr!
But good post, though.
To: lightsabre
Maybe these ships are going to be Saddam's ticket out...his personal exile convoy.
To: Rain-maker
Just sink the damn things !!!What...and have the environmentalist blame us because of an environmental disaster????
I would rather they trail this until out special op's go in and take it out. Can't wait to see what nations names are on the parts.
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posted on
02/19/2003 5:52:42 AM PST
by
mware
To: mware
There would be no environmental disaster. We have weapons that would vaporize any bio/chem agents that were there. But even if we didn't, the ocean itself would so dilute anything as to render it harmless.
I read about this yesterday in the thread piasa linked. Having slept on the matter, this makes no sense. With all of our missile capabilities, why would these ships essentially just sit there?
IMO, our news organizations are correct to go slow with this story.
To: Blueflag
Hey Blue, you are the naval expert come to think of it.
How could you take these down without polluting the ocean with their stores? Do we really worry if vx or biologics get dumped into the sea...are they even potent in that environment?
Also, any way to burn them with heat rounds setting them afire?
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posted on
02/19/2003 6:30:55 AM PST
by
xzins
(Babylon -- you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting!)
To: lightsabre
I remember in the last couple of days someone on TV commenting on how easy it would to be to sail a terrorist ship up the Hudson river (around NY City) and release an attack.
I found it strange why he would bring this up. Maybe he had this information then.
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posted on
02/19/2003 6:38:15 AM PST
by
McGruff
(We don't need no stinkin second resolution.)
To: lightsabre
Can inspectors swim? Just wondering.
To: Rain-maker
Just sink the damn things !!! Then the lefties would insist that Bush produce the proof that there were WMD on the ships. What proof? It would be at the bottom of the ocean. According to them it would be just another right-wing conspiracy to get us into the war.
To: lightsabre
Very curious indeed. I also wonder how many Syrian, Iranian, Libyan, N Korean and Chinese terror ships are now sailing or can sail soon? Might be scores out there.
To: Rain-maker
AMEN!!! A couple of Mk. 48 torpedos from one of the SSN's in the region would do the trick. I bet that's how they're tracking these ships in the first place.
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posted on
02/19/2003 6:47:53 AM PST
by
txradioguy
(HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
To: lightsabre
lol - welcome to 'life as we know it' on FR. Thanks for the article - I hadn't seen it.
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posted on
02/19/2003 6:48:01 AM PST
by
Frapster
(Viva la revolucion... er... I surrender!)
To: Lion's Cub
the only problem with vaporizing these ships is if they have, Nuke's on board,
that would be a big oops on our part
I would imagine our seals are ready, willing, and able to take care of this job.
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posted on
02/19/2003 6:59:34 AM PST
by
vin-one
(I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
To: lightsabre
Do we have any nukes that need testing? Incineration at sea would seem a comparatively safe course of action.
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posted on
02/19/2003 7:03:47 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Islamofascism sucks!)
To: vin-one
Not necessairily. We could blow the ships without detonating the nukes. They have to have their trigger mechanism activated and torpedoing the ship would not do that. Then when it's been sunk, we simply send in Navy divers to inspect the cargo and determine if anything needs to be removed.
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posted on
02/19/2003 7:05:47 AM PST
by
txradioguy
(HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
To: lightsabre
bump
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posted on
02/19/2003 7:10:48 AM PST
by
VOA
To: txradioguy
well I did know that I was thinking more along the lines of the waste seeping out from
the bottom of the ocean for the next 10,000 years. but then again if it is off the coast of Iraq no big deal.
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posted on
02/19/2003 7:13:29 AM PST
by
vin-one
(I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
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