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2007-07-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Spain seizes U.S. treasure boat near Gibraltar

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Spain is a rogue state now days?

Posted by 3dc 2007-07-13 02:56|| 2007-07-13 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 They're saving up to pay the jizya.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-07-13 08:25|| 2007-07-13 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 The only "awwww....too bad...." part of this is that I understand John Edwards has an equity stake in the recovery project in question...

Posted by OyVey1 2007-07-13 08:43|| 2007-07-13 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe we can send the USS Constitution ('Old Ironsides") over - it was built to fight pirates on the Barbary Coast.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-13 08:46|| 2007-07-13 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't understand the concern, we should be accustomed to taking it up the arss by now.

During the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes in international waters by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four men died and 174 were wounded. http://www.ussliberty.org/

Less than a year later in 1968, the USS PUEBLO (AGER-2), was captured by the North Koreans. It was the first U.S. Navy ship to be hi-jacked on the high seas by a foreign military force in over 150 years. To date, the capture has resulted in no reprisals against the North Koreans; no military action was taken at the time, or at any later date. This lack of military response guarantees the Pueblos place in history as a watershed event in our national conscience.

http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/admin/welcomeframe.html

The Hainan Island incident was the April 1, 2001 collision between a United States Navy EP-3E signals reconnaissance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy J-8IIM fighter jet that resulted in an international incident between the United States and China.

The EP-3E had been flying in international airspace over the Exclusive Economic Zone waters of China, about 70 miles (110 km) away from the Chinese island of Hainan, when the craft was intercepted by several J-8IIM fighters. What resulted was a collision between the wing of the EP-3E and one of the J-8s, which caused the death of the J-8's pilot, Wang Wei, and forced the EP-3E to make an emergency landing on Hainan.

US Response, the "Letter of the two sorries." The "Letter of the two sorries" was the letter delivered by the United States Ambassador Joseph Prueher to Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan of the People's Republic of China to defuse the Hainan Island incident in April 2001. Upon the collision between the U.S. surveillance aircraft and the Chinese fighter aircraft, the U.S. plane made an emergency landing on Chinese territory, while the Chinese fighter pilot and his plane were lost. The delivery of the letter led to the release of the U.S. crew from Chinese custody, as well as the return of the disassembled plane.

The letter stated that the United States was "very sorry" for the death of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, and they also apologized for entering Chinese airspace and performing the emergency landing without authorization. Significantly, the United States did not apologize for conducting signals reconnaissance off the coast of China, nor did the United States explicitly accept responsibility for the collision, only expressing that they were sorry for the loss of Wang Wei and "sincere regret over (China's) missing pilot and aircraft".

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-13 08:59|| 2007-07-13 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Please don't call, we're sorry already.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-13 09:53|| 2007-07-13 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 That's called "piracy on the high seas", I believe.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-07-13 10:46|| 2007-07-13 10:46|| Front Page Top

#8 WAR!!

We already whooped their ass once. Let's do it again!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-13 11:42|| 2007-07-13 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Apparently Odyssey Marine has already transferred all the recovered treasure to the USA already so Spain isn't going to find anything on board their ship. This is more than anything else just a showing of spite by the Spanish government over their own lack of competency.

I mean really - they are a damn government with the resources of millions of people at their disposal. If they couldn't get off their ass to go recover the treasure themselves, then they don't deserve any of it. It's just socialists looking to steal some bread from the evil capitalists.

Posted by Leigh 2007-07-13 12:15|| 2007-07-13 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Ya'all hear from my lawyer about this. See ya in court.

Posted by John "Pretty Boy" Edwards 2007-07-13 12:18|| 2007-07-13 12:18|| Front Page Top

#11 John "Pretty Boy" Edwards: Yep, two Americas. Those who have investments by important decision-makers, and the rest of the trash, who visit Supercuts, like Frank G

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-13 22:15|| 2007-07-13 22:15|| Front Page Top

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