[Jerusalem Post] A US guided-missile destroyer rescued 10 Iranian seamen from a burning dhow in the Gulf of Oman and was providing them with medical care while working to coordinate their return home, the US Navy said on Thursday.
Crew members from the USS James E. Williams rescued the mariners on Wednesday after they were forced to abandon their burning vessel. The dhow was flying an Iranian flag and all the crew members said they were Iranian, the Navy said.
The Iranian seamen were receiving medical treatment aboard the destroyer while awaiting transfer to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which was coordinating their repatriation, the Navy said.
US warships have rendered aid to Iranian mariners in the region on several different occasions over the past year, despite escalating tensions over Tehran's nuclear program and sometimes threatening rhetoric between the two countries.
The USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike group rescued 13 Iranian fishermen in January who had been held hostage by suspected Somali pirates for more than a month.
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Ten sailors sound suspiciously like an assination team, before transferring them X-ray them thoroughly, it just MIGHT avoid sinking the Carrier.
I could think of it, so can they, and the Iranians aren't above it.
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Or we could, you know, NOT rescue them.
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I hope that the Iranians do not start thinking that our humanity towards seamen in distress is a sign of weakness. This will hurt them big time if they do.
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And I hope to win the lottery---without paying for ticket.
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Insantity, total insanity. Knowing that our western navies would pick up seamen from a burning vessel, would there be anyone, I ask you, that might believe the Iranians are playing by the same Chemical/Biological Warfare ROE ?
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Ten sailors sound suspiciously like an assination team, before transferring them X-ray them thoroughly, it just MIGHT avoid sinking the Carrier.
I could think of it, so can they, and the Iranians aren't above it.
"Assination team"? Is that the goat buggering squad? ;-)
I'm guessing you have never been on a Carrier before. The 'guests' will be very closely watched by the MAA's and the MARDET folks. I'm also confident the 'guests' will be well secured.
Still, I question the wisdom of humanitarian ops to save an avowed enemy. DNA swabs for everyone.
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do you get the impression these Iranian sailors are doing this deliberately - if I were on one of their boats I'd wanna get out quickly.
Can't be long before a bunch of Iranian ships are burning and sinking in the Straits of Hormuz :-)
If the pipeline should spring a leak where it touches the aquifer or even above it, Kleeb and other opponents say, oil could quickly seep into and through the porous, sandy soil. The Ogallala, Kleeb said last year in a television interview, is "a very fragile ecosystem, literally made of sand. . . . To have a pipeline crossing that region is just mind-boggling." Shirley, there are no existing pipelines in the enormous aquifer that covers several states. Expert is 'embarrassed'
Goecke says that many people have the wrong impression about the danger a pipeline leak would pose to the Ogallala. He said people "were concerned that any spill would contaminate and ruin the water in the entire aquifer, and that's just practically impossible." To do that, the oil would essentially have to run uphill, he said. "The gradient of the groundwater is from west to east; 75 percent to 80 percent of the aquifer is west of the pipeline, and any contamination can't move up gradient or up slope," he said.
"Secondly," Goecke added, "any leakage would be very localized. . . . A spill wouldn't be nice, but it would certainly be restricted to within a half-mile of the pipeline." He predicted that the varied layers of fine-grained seams of silt and clay would contain the flow of oil.
After TransCanada submitted a revised Keystone XL route that veered east of the Sand Hills, Goecke agreed to appear in a television ad for TransCanada. Goecke is Professor Emeritus at the U of Neb. What does HE know?
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So what? There are already DOZENS of pipelines and railroad tracks that cross this "sensitive" area. The oil is currently being hauled through there on rail which is much MORE likely to result in a spill and environmental damage.
h/t Instapundit
They must have rubbed Mayor Bloomberg the wrong way.
City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women who hoped to get their hands on some no-cost sex toys. I'm ought to be ashamed to post this
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The production company affiliated with the event is currently in discussions with the Mayors Office to hold a promotional event with proper permits at a later date.
Permits. Nothing to get aroused about. The Mayor just wants to get his beak wet, much to the dismay of those interested in moistening other parts.
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Then there's South Africa - where devices leaving someone 'rubbed the wrong way' are a bit different.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/index.html
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[Jerusalem Post] A US guided-missile destroyer rescued 10 Iranian seamen from a burning dhow in the Gulf of Oman and was providing them with medical care while working to coordinate their return home, the US Navy said on Thursday.
