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2006-08-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2006-08-22 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11144 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 04:06|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 06:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 07:31|| Front Page Top

#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">Spot 2006-08-22 08:01|| 2006-08-22 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I still stand behind the authenticity of this photograph one hundred percent!

Posted by Dan Rather 2006-08-22 08:12|| 2006-08-22 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Or maybe one of their brutally effective unmanned spy drones.

Posted by Jaiger Spaviting9126 2006-08-22 08:13|| 2006-08-22 08:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 08:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 08:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Quick! Call Dan Rather for verification!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-08-22 09:32|| 2006-08-22 09:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 09:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 10:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 10:27|| Front Page Top

#14 I heard the over 10,000 jews wers on board?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-08-22 10:34|| 2006-08-22 10:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 10:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Baghdad Bob has found employment with Hezb'Allah.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-22 10:39|| 2006-08-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 10:43|| Front Page Top

#18 Darth, refer to #5.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-22 11:27|| 2006-08-22 11:27|| Front Page Top

#19 You can see a 10 photo sequence at Wikipedia

Posted by ed 2006-08-22 11:33|| 2006-08-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#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">john 2006-08-22 12:07|| 2006-08-22 12:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 12:30|| Front Page Top

#22 Answers to Lebanon War Riddles

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-22 12:44|| 2006-08-22 12:44|| Front Page Top

#23 Thanks, Ed.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-22 12:49|| 2006-08-22 12:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 13:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 13:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 17:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 17:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 18:03|| Front Page Top

#29 Clearly an "act" of war. The Ozzies have license to free fire at will.

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-22 21:20|| 2006-08-22 21:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 22:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-22 23:11|| Front Page Top

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