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2004-06-18 Arabia

UAE captures Iranian ~~fishing~~ espionage boat

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-18 6:42:07 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Hey, give that back! Mo-o-o-o-mmmm!!!!!!"

Posted by Seafarious 2004-06-18 6:48:43 PM|| 2004-06-18 6:48:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing really new here, except that the UAE capture was made public. Iranians have been using dhows for years in intel work around the UAE, Oman, and Bahrain. Lot of times they work with the smugglers. Sometimes they're captured, sometimes they just... disappear.

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-18 6:57:35 PM|| 2004-06-18 6:57:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes they're captured, sometimes they just... disappear.

Pappy, isn't it hard to lose all hands at sea when they were already chopped off back on shore?

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-18 8:12:26 PM|| 2004-06-18 8:12:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 And pretty hard to lose 'em at sea in that puddle called the Persian Gulf! It maxes out at 90m and averages only 50m deep... not much wiggle room for those 'Ranian subs to maneuver, eh? Methinks they stay outside the Straits of Hormuz, heh, down around Bandar Abbas.

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 8:16:49 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/root_for_us.jpg] 2004-06-18 8:16:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's dead calm water also - one of the reasons that neither the Stark nor the Roberts sunk.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-18 8:29:51 PM|| 2004-06-18 8:29:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Are we sure this is an actual 'boat' and not one of those cool, spiffy Zodiac Patrol Craft the press mentioned during Gulf War I, the ones that got cluster bombed by some A-6's.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-06-18 8:52:33 PM|| 2004-06-18 8:52:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 So UAE forces have the boat's crew? Okay, since they aren't in U.S. custody, then Emirates' interrogators should torture the crew members in order to extract whatever information can be had. After all, they aren't in U.S. custody, so no one will really notice....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 9:53:27 PM|| 2004-06-18 9:53:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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