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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah sinks Australian warship
2006-08-22
An Iran-based website run by the Hezbollah terrorist group - is running this picture (above) of what it claims is the Israeli ship it hit with a missile last month.

Now look at the Royal Australian NavyÂ’s picture below - as published by Defence Industry Daily - of its sinking of the decommissioned Australian destroyer-escort HMAS Torrens off the coast of Western Australia in 1998 . We were told at the time the Torrens was deliberately sunk by a torpedo fired by one of our own submarines, the HMAS Farncomb.

Should we now think that we were in fact attacked by Hezbollah - or is this just the latest proof that Hezbollah will lie and lie again for propaganda gain?
Posted by:tipper

#31  Tony,
yeah, I already have a few choice names for them, I was just omitting them here being nice. I do however like the bit about stealing oxygen heh
Posted by: Jan   2006-08-22 23:11  

#30  Legolas - That's pure shifting the blame. Signals we were seeing were complete lack of understanding why Israel didn't attack full bore.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-08-22 22:42  

#29  Clearly an "act" of war. The Ozzies have license to free fire at will.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-08-22 21:20  

#28  For those of you not familiar with the term.

Bollocks: Nonsense, rubbish, especially transparently invented nonsense
Posted by: phil_b   2006-08-22 18:03  

#27  Jan, if you're looking for an alternative term when referring to the murdering, lying abusers of dead children who currently steal oxygen in Southern Lebanon, may I suggest 'Hizbollocks'.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2006-08-22 17:18  

#26  posing them [with] livestock will have absolutely no effect

Even if it was with a pig? Wouldn't hurt to try.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-22 17:02  

#25  Zenster, posing them w/young boys or livestock will have absolutely no effect on the arab street as most of the brave warriors of islam are into that anyways. Now, if you had them posing w/some fine lebanese women (aka chattel) that would prolly be more scandolous.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-08-22 13:35  

#24  For the Hezbo's (actually I prefer this nickname of sorts, not wanting to give creadence to a 'party of God' that they like to refer to themselves as, I can think of a variety of other labels here);
On the one hand to learn that this crap is being claimed by these idiots, and actually being taken seriously by the Lebanese, and on the other that aren't the Lebanese people supposidly educated beyond believing this crap, or are they?

Can the Hezbo's really buy love and commitment with their helping rebuild, with the locals not seeing the larger picture here?
I'll have to get my blood pressure meds re upped.

Maybe we can photoshop a shark into the shot getting the suicide bomber jumping off the ship while exploding as well.
Posted by: Jan   2006-08-22 13:16  

#23  Thanks, Ed.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-22 12:49  

#22  Answers to Lebanon War Riddles
Posted by: Legolas   2006-08-22 12:44  

#21  Turretless destroyer furthermore! Israel don't possess destroyers esp. of the old genre (easily recogniseable as one). Even their current corvettes have a 75 mm gun turret easily visible.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-22 12:30  

#20  None of this would explain why the Israel Navy would be blockading Beruit with a ship where all gun turrets have been removed.
Posted by: john   2006-08-22 12:07  

#19  You can see a 10 photo sequence at Wikipedia
Posted by: ed   2006-08-22 11:33  

#18  Darth, refer to #5.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-22 11:27  

#17  OK, OK it does seem to be the same pic, unless the second explosion was photoshopped to look like the first....

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Bobby   2006-08-22 10:43  

#16  Baghdad Bob has found employment with Hezb'Allah.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-22 10:39  

#15  Same pic (perhaps easier for some to see if you focus on the explosion). Yes on the propaganda--that's why I said Ahminahajib is diabolical. He's good at messing with people's minds. (Of course, he may be Sith, but there's a lot of good Jedi on our side.) Anyway, it's true enough that he can get most of the stupid Moslem world siding with him through stunts like this. (Guess keeping them all uneducated and backwards is going to have quite a payoff for the little man.)
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-08-22 10:37  

#14  I heard the over 10,000 jews wers on board?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-08-22 10:34  

#13  It doesn't matter if it was a lie or not. It achieved the propaganda effect to the audience it was intended for.
Posted by: gromky   2006-08-22 10:27  

#12  Notice that the ship's back is broken. Those Mk 48s are not to be messed with.
Posted by: Mike   2006-08-22 10:05  

#11  Think of it as an education lesson. Sgould be shown on Iranan TV every night. See what will happen when an Iranian corvette is hit by an American Mk-48 torpedo.
Posted by: ed   2006-08-22 09:36  

#10  Quick! Call Dan Rather for verification!
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-08-22 09:32  

#9  Duh!. And it's thier counterparts in Iran making a Nuclear weapon. Where is a Chernoboyl when we need one? Well maybe after they finally enrich the stuff.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-08-22 08:29  

#8  Spot! My thoughts exactley. Can't imagine the JOOOOOO's would allow anything in the air long enough to take that picture, even if it was a Syrian jet.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-08-22 08:27  

#7  Any air launched weapon apart from a torpedo will throw up that amount of sea water? Hisbollocks are that waterlogged and their intended readers gotta be that poorly literate.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-22 08:25  

#6  Or maybe one of their brutally effective unmanned spy drones.
Posted by: Jaiger Spaviting9126   2006-08-22 08:13  

#5  I still stand behind the authenticity of this photograph one hundred percent!
Posted by: Dan Rather   2006-08-22 08:12  

#4  It is the same pic, Bobby - just touched up a bit and cropped. I'd love to see Hezbo explain how it got such a birds-eye view of their "hit". Maybe one of their Hezbo Air Force jets took it. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Posted by: Spot   2006-08-22 08:01  

#3  Hot on the heels of sinking HMAS Torrens, Hezbollah today boasted that it had sunk "the Zionist dreadnought Szent István" in the Adriatic.
Posted by: Mike   2006-08-22 07:31  

#2  Well, it's not exactly the same picture, but it does seem to be the same ship, with the same explosion....

Besides, it may be fake, but it's accurate.
Posted by: Bobby   2006-08-22 06:52  

#1  Joseph Goebbels would be so proud. However, turn around is fair play. Time to photoshop Nasrallah and Abbas in poses with underage boys or farm animals. Hezbollah's febrile propaganda should incense all honorable journalists. Hark! Is that the dull roar of mainstream media outrage I hear in the background?

[crickets]
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-22 04:06  

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