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Israel, Turkey, Gaza in covert sea war. Hamas frogmen thwarted | |||
2010-06-09 | |||
Following the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's fiery abuse of Israel, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Sunday, June 6: "We have been working hard, especially to ascertain what happened in the Iskenderun incident." Local media have suggested he is looking for Israeli covert invovlement in the planning and execution of the deadly attack on the Turkish naval base in revenge for the violence on the Marmara against the Israeli naval boarding party. Early Monday, June 7, an Israeli Navy Commando force intercepted a large group of armed Palestinian frogmen, members of the Hamas sea commando, on their way from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli shore to the north early Monday, June 7. Palestinian sources confirmed at least four wet-suited terrorists were killed, and another four were missing in the wake of a shootout in the Nahal Aza area of the Gaza Strip near Nuseirat between their boat and Israeli troops. The IDF spokesman reported there were no Israeli casualties. debkafile's military sources report the Hamas seaborne unit aimed to prove itself capable by striking an Israeli target of retaliating for the thwarting of the Turkish-led campaign to break the Gaza blockade. Shortly afterwards, a Palestinian Qassam missile squad was spotted on land near Jebalya preparing to fire into Israel. It was knocked out by the Israeli Air force. debkafile: Cross-fire from Gaza on Israeli border patrols is frequent, almost daily and Hamas still launches several Qassam missiles and mortar bombs into Israel every week, but attempts attacks by Hamas or related groups from the sea are a new development. | |||
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#3 ION SEA WAR, WMF > CHINA EXCAVATIONS DEEPENING THE USSURI RIVER. RUSSIAN MEDIAS ANGRY OER FEARS THAT CHINA-INDUCED CHANGES IN THE RIVER'S NATURAL COURSE WILL VIOLATE THE 2006 SINO-RUSS BILATER AGREEMENT AND RESULT IN THE LOSS OF SOVEREIGN RUSS TERRITORY TO CHINA. The Russ are also unhappy and critical at alleged ILLEGAL CHIN MINING + OVER-MINING OF AREA MINERAL DEPOSITS [+ Forests]. JORDAN RIVER??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-09 22:28 |
#2 Those Israelis are the head-shootinest people I ever have seen. |
Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-06-09 13:02 |
#1 Actually this makes more sense. When the story first broke, there was a suggestion that that were Fatah frogmen, which makes little sense. Though an interesting little detail was that the frogmen were killed with head shots, which is interesting in its own way. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-09 09:07 |