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| USS Cole boomers sentenced to death |
| 2004-09-29 |
 A Yemeni court has sentenced two men to death over the bomb attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 people in 2000. Suspected ringleader Abdel Rahim al-Nashiri, who is currently in US custody, and Jamal Mohammed al-Bedawi, were both given the death penalty. Four others were given between five and 10 years in jail for the attack, blamed on Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. In October 2000, two attackers rammed the destroyer in the port of Aden with a small boat laden with explosives. |
| Posted by:Howard UK |
| #16 ..Truxtun wasn't quite as bad as Captain William Sterett of sloop-of-war Enterprise. Sterett thought one of his gunners was about to desert his post, so he ran the man through. And there have been a couple of USS Steretts IIRC. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-29 1:49:01 PM |
| #15 Aircraft, Frank. Heh heh.. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-29 11:37:16 AM |
| #14 Aluminium ships and wooden men? another reference to Kerry in VN? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-29 11:22:32 AM |
| #13 Mrs. D---Ya beat me to it! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-29 11:18:31 AM |
| #12 Aluminium ships and wooden men? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 10:29:50 AM |
| #11 Gone are the days of "wooden ships and iron men", "rocks and shoals"...replaced by the UCMJ and ROE. |
| Posted by: RN 2004-09-29 10:24:13 AM |
| #10 very unkind Captain Truxtun Unkind yes, but they ended up naming not just 1, but 5 ships after him.... including the name ship for a class of guided missle destroyers. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-29 9:49:11 AM |
| #9 We learned at the feet of the master. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 9:05:22 AM |
| #8 Phew, not just us, then. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-29 9:01:19 AM |
| #7 Mike...here ya go: There's the wraith of young Neil Harvey; Neil was a yeoman on the Constellation's namesake 1799 frigate. The lad fell asleep on his watch, and the very unkind Captain Truxtun decided to make an example of the sleepy sailor: he had Neil bound to a cannon and blown to smithereens. |
| Posted by: RN 2004-09-29 8:59:44 AM |
| #6 Aye, I think the Brits did that to the Sepoys in the Indian rebellion. Nice aint we? |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-29 8:59:04 AM |
| #5 Even better - wasn't there once (a VERY long time ago) a method of execution that involved strapping the offender to the mouth of a cannon, then pulling the lanyard? Cole's got two of 'em... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-29 8:49:53 AM |
| #4 Buried in pig skins? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 8:42:19 AM |
| #3 Slow death? Public death? Both? How do they dispatch someone in Yemen? I asked four questions and didn't get one answer. (That's an old joke). |
| Posted by: Bryan 2004-09-29 8:34:42 AM |
| #2 Umm, a little early for the dancing virgins, no ? I put these Islamic court "death sentences for convicted terrorists" in the same category as the infamous "We have them surrounded, they can't escape" statements, after which the terrs invariably escape. It's an egg-counting / hatching thing... |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-09-29 7:46:43 AM |
| #1 buh-bye......martyrs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-29 7:29:46 AM |