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2015-05-05 Arabia

Pentagon: US warships accompany British commercial vessels in Strait

[Ynet] US Navy warships have begun accompanying British-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Iran's detention of a Marshall Islands-flagged ship last week, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon front man, said the US Navy had accompanied one British ship through the strait following talks between Washington and London and others would follow. The Navy has been accompanying US-flagged ships for several days in response to last week's detention of the MV Maersk Tigris.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Can we see the price list for this service?

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-05 07:41|| 2015-05-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 QPQ for something, I'm sure.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-05-05 12:24|| 2015-05-05 12:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Diego Garcia, for one.

Posted by Pappy 2015-05-05 14:49|| 2015-05-05 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Knuckles, you are a piece of work.

A jazz lyricist suffering a drouth
Smelt a funky-butt breeze from the south
And the muse in his rear
Put his pencil in gear
So the scat flowed onec more from his mouth.

Also,

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Was probably treated too gently.
If parents and dons would've flogged him,
His doggerel mightn't have dogged him.

Posted by Shuting Gurly-Brown7975 2015-05-05 19:59|| 2015-05-05 19:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The USDOD must have read ...

* IIRC DAILY MAIL.UK, VARIOUS NET > UK ROYAL NAVY ONLY HAS ONE NUCLEAR SUBMARINE ON ACTIVE DUTY.

To protect at this time the British Empire-Commonwealth of the future US-born, US-raised, OWG QUEEN MADONNA.

But I digress ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-05 20:18|| 2015-05-05 20:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Shuting Gurly-Brown7975, you are a surprise and a delight. Please carry on.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-05-05 20:23|| 2015-05-05 20:23|| Front Page Top

#7 * ION TOPIX > [Trend] IRAN DESTROYER "ALBORZ" WARNS US DESTROYER [+ USN Patrol Aircraft].

Claims US DDG-81 tried to enter the five-mile security zone of the Iranian 34th Fleet.

AND

* SAME, BIGNEWSNETWORK > SAUDI KING SALMAN WARNS OF IRAN THREAT TO GULF.

* Also from BIGNEWSNETWORK > ...

> IRAN SAYS WON'T ALLOW SAUDI SIEGE OF YEMEN.
> [AlterNet] THE GROWING CHINA-IRAN-IRAN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE HAS GOT THE US PENTAGON TREMBLING.

* FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > CHINA'S YJ-18 [ASCMS] A "MAJOR THREAT" TO US NAVY. CHINA IS OUTFITTING NEW NAVAL DSTROYERS [+ Attack Subs] WID THEIR POTENT ANTI-SHIP MISSLES, WHICH POSES A SDERIOUS CHALLENGE TO US NAVAL DEFENSES.

* FYI TOPIX > [Daily Times.PK] PAKISTAN: TIME TO GO NUCLEAR!?

That's Sunni KSA BFF, + Shia Iran BFF = or Best Frenemy Forevar?, We-Should-Be-the-World's-First-Muslim/Islamic-Nuclear-Superpower-NOT-Iran Pakistan.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-05 22:07|| 2015-05-05 22:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Trailing wife
Checked her knife.
Had it been otherwise
If she'd pierced my disguiZe?

Posted by Shuting Gurly-Brown7975 2015-05-05 23:46|| 2015-05-05 23:46|| Front Page Top

#9 The slippery-handed man from Hope
Who paid himself out too much rope
Shinnied so high that eventually
He slid back down his spent, bent willie.

Oof. Clerihew be hard.

Posted by Shuting Gurly-Brown7975 2015-05-05 23:53|| 2015-05-05 23:53|| Front Page Top

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