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2007-04-26 Africa Horn

Chinese oil workers massacred in attack by army of 200 rebels linked to Islamists

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Shucks, China, why'd anyone want to disrupt your harmless forays into the region?

Memo to the PRC Politburo: FOAD.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-26 00:29|| 2007-04-26 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 "National Liberation Front" > so a Commie-led/suppor group has attacked other comrade Commies??? Lest we fergit, NEWSMAX [Y2000] > CHINA IN SUDAN: AN ARMY, OR WORKERS? 700,000 alleged soldiers of the PLA, wid large numbers wilfully disguised, and PAID, as "civilian" labor.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-26 00:39|| 2007-04-26 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do, when the islamists come for you? PRC. PRC.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-04-26 00:54|| 2007-04-26 00:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I look forward to more mischief against the ChiCom interests in the area. When the Muslims start beheading and kidnapping for ransom, I'm waiting to see the ChiCom response. Might be a good area to test some of their nifty new weapons systems.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-04-26 01:27|| 2007-04-26 01:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Somali Separatist Rebels? Somali was seperate from Ethiopia last time I checked...

Posted by Vinegar Ulogum7733 2007-04-26 04:12|| 2007-04-26 04:12|| Front Page Top

#6 WE: Might be a good area to test some of their nifty new weapons systems.

China has developed some new weapons systems. But "nifty" isn't a word I hear much in association with Chinese-made goods. That goes double for weapons systems. Think cr*ppy, sh*tty, et al.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-04-26 04:17|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-04-26 04:17|| Front Page Top

#7 They're building a lot of ships now, but the guys who work for my company say the quality is pretty low. Certainly not up to Korean standards and orders of magnitude below Japanese standards.

Posted by Mac 2007-04-26 06:22|| 2007-04-26 06:22|| Front Page Top

#8 And certainly not up to the standards of the Mightiest Military Force In The World - the Stupendous, the Colossal, the Speeding-Express-Train-Without-Brakes, the one, the ONLY --- Islamic Republic of IRAN!

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-26 07:13|| 2007-04-26 07:13|| Front Page Top

#9 They're building a lot of ships now, but the guys who work for my company say the quality is pretty low.

Same old communist ethic - quantity instead of quality. Worked okay at Kursk (although an argument can be made that a large portion of the Russian tanks at Kursk were at least as good as what the Germans were able to field in force); proven incorrect time and again with the Israeli's vs whomever especially in the 6-Day War (Israeli Merkava's vs Egyptian/Syrian Russian-made T-10s).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-04-26 10:33|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-04-26 10:33|| Front Page Top

#10 In Kursk the engines of Panthers catched fire spontaneously due to Panther being ten tons heavier than initailly planned. Also superhevay assult guns completely unpenetrable to Soviet AT weapons fell to mere infantrymen armed wuth flamethrowers: they had no machine guns to protect themselves against infantry and they had continued advancing after froiendly infantry and tanks had beeeen stopped.

In Middle East it was Merkavas against Soviet Tanks but it was also Israeli crews against Arab ones. In the 1956 war, the Egyptians had by far the best tanks and they were still clobbered.

Posted by JFM ">JFM 2007-04-26 11:54|| 2007-04-26 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 In 1956 and 1967 it was mainly dieselized Shermans and Cheiftains against commie steel. Then M60s and Cheiftans aginst T-62z et.al. in '73, don't think the Merkava was around in numbers till after '73.

Posted by Shipman 2007-04-26 14:50|| 2007-04-26 14:50|| Front Page Top

#12 According to Dayan's book, in 1956 the mainstay of Israeli armor was the by then hopelessly obsolete Sherman M3 (his own words). In addition to early Sherman models inherent defects, Israeli Shermans suffered from lots of track problems during thed campaign since they lacked purposefully built desert tracks. In anumber of occasions, israli tanks were left scattered on the road due to meachnical problems and the first ones arrived after the battle.

Fortunately, they got some state of the art AMX tanks from the French a few months before the war. It is not clear these had desert tracks.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-26 17:13|| 2007-04-26 17:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, for the good old days when France liked Israel; unlike today, when a Canadian friend commented to me that over there recently her son used his French more than his Hebrew. Ariel Sharon would have been pleased that so many French Jews followed his advice, and saddened that it proved necessary.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-26 17:48|| 2007-04-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Not Chieftains.... Churchillz. Getting gray-brained.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-26 17:48|| 2007-04-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

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