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2004-09-29 Arabia

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Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-29 3:38:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 buh-bye......martyrs

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-29 7:29:46 AM|| 2004-09-29 7:29:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 7:46:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 8:34:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Buried in pig skins?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 8:42:19 AM|| 2004-09-29 8:42:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 8:49:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 8:59:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 8:59:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Phew, not just us, then.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-29 9:01:19 AM|| 2004-09-29 9:01:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 We learned at the feet of the master.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 9:05:22 AM|| 2004-09-29 9:05:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 9:49:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 10:24:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Aluminium ships and wooden men?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 10:29:50 AM|| 2004-09-29 10:29:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Mrs. D---Ya beat me to it!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-29 11:18:31 AM|| 2004-09-29 11:18:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Aluminium ships and wooden men?

another reference to Kerry in VN?

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-29 11:22:32 AM|| 2004-09-29 11:22:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Aircraft, Frank. Heh heh..

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-29 11:37:16 AM|| 2004-09-29 11:37:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-29 1:49:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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