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Insane Arabic Website Predicts Attack on Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier
2004-03-30
This website is written by some incoherent, apparently insane person. The items was posted on March 29. The English translation is wretched, and I assume the Arabic original is wretched too. The bracketed annotations are mine.
... the next event came in the vision: the American fleet in the Persian Gulf and led by the aircraft carrier, Kitty Hawk, will attack [be attacked] in [along with its] Cruise Missiles the assumption of a nuclear roux [assumed to have nuclear warheads] by a group of people (Ismail’s offspring) who will carry out this work. 11 ships [are] accompanying the aircraft carrier. Its destruction will take place and it will kill as many as 12,600 of the Americans and that that will be on the seventeenth day of one of the next months in this year. ....

The [belief that] brother Zuhair and this vision were informed confirms [is confirmed by] what happened before, from that the hitting with freedom and the determination of the target by the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. The time has been determined to be the 17th day of a month and now this ship is in the Gulf and has only entered it a few weeks ago!!!

This vision was mentioned to my teacher on 17 January (Friday. 14 Dhal Hijjah), and he specified the date of the attack. My teacher expects that he is right? Tomorrow we will see. But if the leading target remains then the attack was expected and it will be postponed.
Posted by:Mike Sylwester

#31  OP It used to be that the Wasps were the third largest carriers in the world. Call 'em what you will. If it got AH-8s on it.... it's a carrier.
:)
Posted by: Shipman   2004-03-30 6:58:29 PM  

#30  Those pix are of ships docked in a friendly port. Change the location from Sydney Harbor to some ME port, and it's practically a certainty that any civilian craft in the vicinity won't be able to get as close as it needs to in order to inflict substantial damage. The Cole attack saw to that.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-03-30 6:09:00 PM  

#29  OP thanks for the correction. My point was that the pics show civilian craft close (200 metres?) to large US Navy ships with nothing in between.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-03-30 5:29:43 PM  

#28  Phil, nice pics, but these are NOT "aircraft carriers". They're Assault Landing Ships, a hybrid "mini-carrier" used for Marine assault landings, with helicopters and some Marine AH-8 Harrier VTOL aircraft. ALL the true US aircraft carriers are designated as CV or CVN. The LHDs are "only" about 2/3 the size of a true carrier.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-03-30 5:20:42 PM  

#27  Dale you might care to check out these pictures of a US aircraft carrier in Sydney Harbour.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-03-30 4:54:39 PM  

#26  Lol snellenr!

What might be fun is to leave a retiring ship "unguarded" as a lure. Then when the Islamotwerps approach up close in their little boats we could net 'em. Then we could leave them for shark bait.
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-03-30 1:39:19 PM  

#25  I sure wouldn't want to be on or in any waters near a US Carrier in port right now. Especially after those protecting the ship have been forewarned. And VERY likely to empty magazines and ask questions later!
Posted by: Jack Deth   2004-03-30 1:23:02 PM  

#24  Phil - you neglect to mention the protective screen surronding a carrier..able to defend from below, above and on the surface. For any ship to get within ramming range would be almost science fiction even in harbour.
Posted by: Dan   2004-03-30 12:19:47 PM  

#23  Damn, it looks like those million monkeys with typewriters finally came up with something...
Posted by: snellenr   2004-03-30 11:58:14 AM  

#22  Here in San Diego Bay, the Carriers tie up at North Island/Coronado, and the Navy's put up a floating barrier that keeps traffic away fom the Carriers (same at Ballast Point sub base). Anyone breeching the barrier would, I'm sure, have to "say hello to my leeettle friend"
Posted by: Frank G   2004-03-30 11:54:48 AM  

#21  Isn't the Shitty Kitty about ready to retire? Maybe we'll end up sending it to the Karachi breaker yards.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-03-30 11:49:34 AM  

#20  You may laugh but large ships at anchor or in confined waters are sitting ducks.

Highly doubtful that a naval vessel in open water would be anchored. Away from port, a stationary target is not what a Navy ship wants to be. Also, the Persian Gulf isn't that small a body of water to actually manage to "confine" a carrier-sized vessel. If it were, the Navy would probably prohibit carriers from going into that area.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-03-30 11:34:14 AM  

#19  Phil-
Completely understood, I was thinking about a dinghy-style attack with a much lower amount of expended energy. Thanks for the clarification.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-03-30 11:16:05 AM  

#18  In that part of the world an unauthorized ship couldn't get within 200 MILES of the Kitty. Unless somebody sold these schmucks an old electric boat or something. That might make it within the 200 mile ring before being sunk.
Posted by: mojo   2004-03-30 10:59:09 AM  

#17  Mike K - a fully laden bulk ore carrier of say 200,000 tonnes travelling at 10 meters per second has a huge kinetic energy. 2 million kilojoules.

TNT by way of contrast releases 4,500 KJ per kilo. So the ship in my example is equivalent to 500 kilograms of TNT, although unlike TNT the energy in a collision is directed in one very focused direction and in terms of the damage it would do, it is probably more like a 5000 kilos of TNT explosion.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-03-30 10:53:39 AM  

#16  ...should read "would take a direct hit - within a few hundred yards - with a nuclear weapon..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-03-30 10:10:00 AM  

#15  I read this last night and am convinced these people are not even on the same plane of reality as we are anymore.
Aside to Phil B. - a Cole type attack on Miss Kitty while in port could indeed do impressive damage to her - but without at all depreciating the danger and potential loss of life, most of the damage would be cosmetic. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that it would take a direct hit - within a few hundred yards - to sink a modern American CV, and even then it would not necssarily be a sure thing. Now, I'm thinking this is what the Bizarro Jihadi was raving about - an attack on a moored carrier with a nuke. If that's the case, then indeed all bets are off - but then a Muslim city somewhere will be glassed, and then it's a whole new war.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-03-30 10:08:36 AM  

#14  "All your Kitty Hawk are belong to us"
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2004-03-30 10:07:33 AM  

#13  Does anyone really beleive that any unauthorized ship is gong to get within 5000 yards of the Kitty Hawk? I don't think so Tim.
Posted by: Bill Nelson   2004-03-30 9:59:40 AM  

#12  This vision was mentioned to my teacher

Heh. I wonder when they'll figure out that the djinni are on our side.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-03-30 9:04:29 AM  

#11  nuclear roux

What's that? Flour, butter, and a couple of teaspoons of Dave's Insanity Sauce?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-03-30 9:03:34 AM  

#10  You guys missed the disclaimer at the end:

"But if the leading target remains then the attack was expected and it will be postponed."

Posted by: Rafael   2004-03-30 7:10:53 AM  

#9  Simple answer to all this. Ignore it and issue a counter threat: on the 17th day of some month soon Mecca and Medina will be vaporized in a great ball of light. Difference between this threat and the carrier threat? This one could actually happen, the other is never going to happen.
Posted by: RMcLeod   2004-03-30 5:49:57 AM  

#8  How would a vessel large enough to sink an aircraft by ramming it, ever get close enough before being stopped? I thought carriers were protected by a screen of smaller ships whose job was precisely to intercept anything hostile-looking headed the carrier's way?
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-03-30 5:14:06 AM  

#7  An aircraft carrier rammed by a dinghy? The sky is falling down on my head. Woof woof. Tweet.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-03-30 4:04:27 AM  

#6  Haha, according to navy.mil, the Kitty Hawk is in the South China Sea and the George Washington is in the Arabian Gulf. The Jihadis need to lay off the opium.
Posted by: sg   2004-03-30 4:03:51 AM  

#5   On the other hand maybe "brother Zuhair" received a copy of Johnny Carsons' Greatest Tonight Shows and thought Carnac the Magnificant was a role model.
Posted by: Stephen   2004-03-30 4:02:57 AM  

#4  Mike why don't you mail the original arabic text to Dan Darling, maybe he could shed some light on the translation.

Posted by: Evert Visser in NL   2004-03-30 2:36:36 AM  

#3  You may laugh but large ships at anchor or in confined waters are sitting ducks. All you have to do is ram them with a large enough ship at sufficient speed to sink them.
Posted by: Phil B   2004-03-30 2:33:35 AM  

#2  Say WHAT?? Run that by me one more time...kinda hard to follow. What's the point in communicating, if you can't?
Posted by: Halfass Pete   2004-03-30 2:23:17 AM  

#1  See what happens when you let these Islamic semetaries have an unlimited supply of processed poppies and ganja??
Posted by: anymouse   2004-03-30 1:23:37 AM  

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