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2005-06-29 International-UN-NGOs

US Holding Prisoners on Warships: UN Official

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-29 09:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cruise ships and tropical retreats? Where do I sign up? Oh wait thats the Navy!

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-29 10:25|| 2005-06-29 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 An "official inquiry" from the UN? Yeah, I'm real worried...

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-29 10:38|| 2005-06-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Next the UN will accuse us of doing something we should be doing with terrorists - namely keelhauling them!

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-29 10:59|| 2005-06-29 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The guy's probably just fishing for a bribe to go away. He got left out of the OFF gravy train, it seems.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-29 11:55|| 2005-06-29 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 blazing sea with Captain Bligh striding the deck.

Steal my coconuts and pay the price. Fletcher Christian is an ass and still owes me money. The only thing I lacked on the Bounty was the usual detail of Royal Marines. I was too soft on the trip out.

Posted by Admiral Bligh 2005-06-29 11:59|| 2005-06-29 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Aye, Bligh. To much rum and sodomy and not enough lash spoils the crew.

Posted by Nelson 2005-06-29 12:08|| 2005-06-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I certainly hope we have such ships for the jihadis. And a lot more.

The worthless UN can go piss up a rope.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-29 12:40|| 2005-06-29 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, good! And it's published in Arab News, so there will be more riots and deaths! And the root of this evil (the deaths, that is, not the figment-of-some-overactive-imagination prison-camp claim) is .....

The American Amnesty International "claim" that there were 70,000 prisoners "somewhere", being held in deplorable conditions. The left kills more innocents.

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-29 13:21|| 2005-06-29 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Info must have come from the same "koran flushing" sources used by Newsweak.

Posted by radrh8r 2005-06-29 13:23|| 2005-06-29 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, I've learned of allegations that Kofi Annan is fucking sheep. There's not much evidence to back that up, but the allegation is serious enough that we should probably bring him down to the station and ask him about it, no?

Posted by Captain Pedantic 2005-06-29 13:31|| 2005-06-29 13:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Rum, sodomy and the lash; some people pay good money for that sort of vacation.

Posted by SteveS 2005-06-29 13:34|| 2005-06-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Note the scare quotes in the last sentence (around "War on Terror"). Yeah, the jihadis will be storming the streets looking for ~~sheep~~ infidels soon!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-29 13:45|| 2005-06-29 13:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Crap, if Manny finds out about the intergalactic prison ships, we're screwed.

Posted by Captain James T Kirk 2005-06-29 13:58|| ]">[ ] 2005-06-29 13:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Like this Naval Ship?

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-29 14:24|| 2005-06-29 14:24|| Front Page Top

#15 No more Dramamine for you Mahmoud until you tell us what we want to know.

I read Manfred's report--twice-- and the problem is .... ?

Posted by GK 2005-06-29 14:53|| 2005-06-29 14:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't they think the US could have afforded space for 500 more prisoners on those fictional ships and avoided the Guantanimo thing all together?

What happened to Politicians having a bit of sense and not giving credence to every single rumor that gets shat out of the tin-foil hat crowd. I think the UNs special rapporteur on terrorism Manfred Nowak should be looking for a job next week. The UN is in trouble and he's just pouring gasoline on the fire with this idiocy.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-29 15:33|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-29 15:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Noooooo! Dochaya see? If we put them all on prison ships, the UN woulda figgered it out sooner, saying, "Wait a minute! Where are you keeping your illegally-detained prisoners?"

That Karl Rove is a genius!

Posted by Bobby 2005-06-29 16:13|| 2005-06-29 16:13|| Front Page Top

#18 What I want to know is, are they keeping the jihadis on the same ships as the prostitutes? 'Cause that seems counterproductive to me.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-29 17:08|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-29 17:08|| Front Page Top

#19 That par 3 into a 35 knot wind looks to be a bitch.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 17:29|| 2005-06-29 17:29|| Front Page Top

#20 Nah, you merely ask the Captain for a course change.

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-29 19:27|| 2005-06-29 19:27|| Front Page Top

#21 But I bet the skeet shooting on those ships is fun (think "History of the World, Part 1"...)

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-29 19:28|| 2005-06-29 19:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Course change? One of those rare ships where the Greenskeeper and the QuarterMaster are the same maybe.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 22:59|| 2005-06-29 22:59|| Front Page Top

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