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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Russian armada dock in Venezuelan port |
| 2008-11-26 |
| Russian warships arrive in Venezuela for joint naval drills with the Latin nation, as Washington is monitoring the show with watchful eyes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Anything bigger than a 21' ski boat is an armada to the Iranians. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-26 19:51 |
| #12 I can't make up my mind GolfBravo, can I have one of each? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-11-26 19:49 |
| #11 |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-26 18:24 |
| #10 All the more reason to embrace CAFTA and Irbi. Columbia, the un-venezuela. What do we have there in venezuela now? Socialist dictator, KGB, Hezbullah, Mujahadeen, FARC? what else? Such evil. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-11-26 17:32 |
| #9 Thanksgiving wishes to the families of and the sailors dutifully lurking in the waters of the Carribean this holiday... Good hunting! |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2008-11-26 16:18 |
| #8 Something like that. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-11-26 16:06 |
| #7 They quoted a State Dept. spokesman? What, the Pentagon is too worried about Icelandic piracy? |
| Posted by: Jeremiah Thaise1218 2008-11-26 14:54 |
| #6 Two ships constitutes an "armada" these days? I guess standards for everything really have been lowered. But at least they didn't call them "battleships"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-26 14:18 |
| #5 Read somewhere a long time ago that Russian sailors looked forward to liberty in Cuba. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-11-26 12:13 |
| #4 Say what you want, these Ruski sailors are going to get the best liberty call of their lives. Watching these ships closely might be a useful training exercise for ship control parties. But it really is of no intelligence value. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-11-26 11:09 |
| #3 "Are they accompanied by tugboats this time?" Wow, they're giddy at the State Department this week. Still on an Obama high? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-11-26 10:21 |
| #2 You have to remember, these were the only ones the Russians could get to stay at sea. The rest of the fleet are "pier queens." |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2008-11-26 09:02 |
| #1 Yeah, we're scared to death of a Soviet-era cruiser and destroyer. You betcha. "Watchful eyes." Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Snoluse 2008-11-26 00:32 |