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2007-01-11 Africa Horn
US Warships picking up Al-Q hardboyz at sea
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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 What I'd really like to see is
"In an unrelated item, US navy made a large purchase of chain and old anchors"
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-11 05:48||   2007-01-11 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Or just a short video of them dropping anchor through the AQ boat.
Posted by 49 Pan 2007-01-11 08:28||   2007-01-11 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Stopped vessels experience a RDS moment.

(Rapidly Diminishing Seaworthiness)
Posted by john">john  2007-01-11 08:35|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]  2007-01-11 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 After which it's off to Ice Station Zebra.

Where in an American prison on a British base in the Indian Ocean, Israeli specialists will question Saudi Arabian terrorists captured in Somalia by Ethiopians using Russian weapondry designed by their German Scientists.
Posted by Shipman 2007-01-11 08:37||   2007-01-11 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 hehe shipman :P
Posted by MacNails 2007-01-11 08:44||   2007-01-11 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Ship left out the part where the Belgians express their dismay, the French declare a national day of mourning, and a bunch of old folks in Berkeley get nekkid.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-01-11 08:55||   2007-01-11 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Ship left out the part where the Belgians express their dismay, the French declare a national day of mourning, and a bunch of old folks in Berkeley get nekkid.

Aw, geez - and I was just about to eat breakfast. Thanks a lot, Sea.
Posted by xbalanke 2007-01-11 08:57||   2007-01-11 08:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Now if we could get the nekkid Berkeley people tied to old anchors and dropped in the sea.....

We would be arrested for dumping toxic waste in the oceans.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-01-11 10:14||   2007-01-11 10:14|| Front Page Top

#9 "Hey! You scratched my anchor!"
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-01-11 10:40||   2007-01-11 10:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Can you say "keel haul".
Posted by texhooey">texhooey  2007-01-11 11:17||   2007-01-11 11:17|| Front Page Top

#11 The ice station zebra idea is not a bad one. A base in the freezing weather could easily made escape proof and it would be fun to see them go through Ramadan when the sun stayed up 24 hours a day that part of the year.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-11 11:43||   2007-01-11 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Question for someone who isn't on most of the commenters level of military know-how.

I remember the last, oh, 3-4 months we've been hearing about carrier groups and such heading to Iran or going to the Indian Ocean. Then there's the US airstrike and now this report we're picking up AQ at sea. Is it possible we've been planning this for over half a year and used worry over us attacking Iran as cover?
Posted by Charles 2007-01-11 13:48||   2007-01-11 13:48|| Front Page Top

#13 I especially like the quote: "...detained." Seems we haven't learned a thing about Gitmo.
Second the dropped anchor close aboard the suspect vessel and the accompanying diminished seaworthiness....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-01-11 13:51||   2007-01-11 13:51|| Front Page Top

#14 it would be fun to see them go through Ramadan when the sun stayed up 24 hours a day that part of the year.

All hail Master Black!
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-11 14:45||   2007-01-11 14:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Why not just pick them up, torture them, and feed the fish without telling anyone about it ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-01-11 16:37||   2007-01-11 16:37|| Front Page Top

#16 and a bunch of old folks in Berkeley get nekkid.

Jeebus, in between this comment and the one about Rosie's strap-on being named Barbara Walters, it's almost enough to make a red-blooded man leave the 'burg. "Calling .com, calling .com!"
Posted by BA 2007-01-11 19:13||   2007-01-11 19:13|| Front Page Top

#17 "Calling .com, calling .com!"

Say...where is .com anyway? Is he and OldSpook still having a lovers spat? And speaking of AWOL, where has Zenster been lately? He was my best source of material for bashing my Liberal associates.
Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-11 20:53||   2007-01-11 20:53|| Front Page Top

#18 Last I read, he became a mod, and almost instantly, his posting quota dropped. Of course, he'll still show up for a good troll-thumping every once in a while.
Posted by BA 2007-01-11 21:32||   2007-01-11 21:32|| Front Page Top

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