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2005-05-30 Europe
Ships to set sail for Mediterranean terror deployment
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Posted by Fred 2005-05-30 12:35|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Marine assault ships with no Marines on them? Something's up. They must have gotten wind of a possible WMD transfer from Africa/Middle East to Europe, is my guess. Hope they find whatever it is they're looking for.
Posted by gromky">gromky  2005-05-30 13:27||   2005-05-30 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect that this is an "evacuation fleet", perhaps to join the French and British off the coast of Lebanon, in case things go haywire.
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-30 13:30||   2005-05-30 13:30|| Front Page Top

#3 interesting.
Posted by 2b 2005-05-30 14:08||   2005-05-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Watch my left hand, ignore my foot?
Posted by Shipman 2005-05-30 14:40||   2005-05-30 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5  ....to “detect [and] disrupt international terrorist organizations’ use of the maritime environment.”

Why would you use an amphibious assault ship for maritime interdiction? Something is not what it seems. Popcorn is called for.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-30 18:04||   2005-05-30 18:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Helicopters.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-30 18:13||   2005-05-30 18:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Special Ops extraction? From where?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-30 18:19||   2005-05-30 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 To a lay person it looks like predeployment of hardware for an amphibious assault. I wonder where? Try as I might, I can't expand the list beyond Syria.
Posted by phil_b 2005-05-30 18:28||   2005-05-30 18:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Assad? aren't you glad you have coast access?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-05-30 18:40||   2005-05-30 18:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Bet it just 'cause we can. See what developes in the airwaz.
Posted by Shipman 2005-05-30 20:17||   2005-05-30 20:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks Fred for posting the article, sorry I just left in the comments section but the kids (big and small)were screaming at me to get off the computer...had to hop for the BBQ.

Dittos,I have similar thoughts as you guys stated..*Something up*..with all human traffic from Africa to Italy and who knows what all is happening along the coast..Horn of Africa,North Africa,Malta,etc.
Posted by R 2005-05-30 22:55||   2005-05-30 22:55|| Front Page Top

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