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2007-01-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Explosions in Iranian port were 'mine-sweeping operations'

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mine sweeping, eh? I see no reason why we shouldn't engage in a little tit-for-tat in Iran. Sowing a little mayhem and destruction would be good practice for the Seal teams. You know they want it.

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-12 00:32|| 2007-01-12 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Does oil go through that port? If so they may be getting desperate to bump up the price of oil.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-12 01:57|| 2007-01-12 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Three of ours?

He-he!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-12 07:19|| 2007-01-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait, the explosions were in Khorramshahr? Wasn't that the city on the Shatt al-Arab which was the scene of most of the fighting in the first year of the Iran-Iraq War? It might actually have been UXO, mines or lost artillery shells or something.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-01-12 08:13|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-12 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Agreed, probably old, low-tech stuff. Our guys would attach some device about the size of a pack of gum directly to the bottom of a ship that would rip its hull open worse than a bite from Godzilla.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-12 08:32|| 2007-01-12 08:32|| Front Page Top

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