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2007-04-26 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2007-04-26 08:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 These men have already been found guilty in the court of world opinion. Any result to the contrary by Navy investigation or Court Martial (or even actual helmet camera footage!) will be held as 'yet another example of Administration cover-up.'

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-26 09:00|| 2007-04-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's remember the NCIS' high points like, the battleship Iowa case -

"On 19 April 1989, an explosion ripped through the Number Two 16 inch gun turret, killing 47 crewmen. Sailors quickly flooded the #2 powder magazine, likely preventing catastrophic damage to the ship. At first, the NCIS investigators theorized that one of the dead crewman, Clayton Hartwig, had detonated an explosive device in a suicide attempt after the end of an alleged homosexual affair with another sailor. This theory was later abandoned and Hartwig cleared. The cause of the explosion, though never determined with certainty, is generally believed to have been static electricity igniting loose powder.

Testing at Dalhgren, Virginia Naval Surface Warfare Center of powder in the same lot was able to reproduce spontaneous combustion of the powder, which had been originally milled in the 1930's and stored during a 1988 dry-docking of the Iowa in a barge at the Navy's Yorktown, Virginia Naval Weapons Station. Gun powder gives off ether gas as it degrades; the ether is highly flammable, and could be ignited by a spark."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_%28BB-61%29#1985-2001

Abandoned only after outside pressure forced the reexamination of the particulars. In October 1991, after Congress forced the Navy to reopen the investigation and scientists at Sandia National Laboratories determined that an overram could have caused the blast, the chief of naval operations, Adm. Frank B. Kelso III, publicly apologized to the Hartwig family. He said there was no proof that Hartwig had deliberately detonated the powder bags.

Nifonging in 9...8...7

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-26 09:18|| 2007-04-26 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Newsmax link

Posted by gorb 2007-04-26 17:30|| 2007-04-26 17:30|| Front Page Top

#4 My surprise meter jumped when i scanned the seattle papers ( on live versions) and there is not one word about this in either one. (ok so i fibbed about the jumping surprise meter; must have been a passing bus)

Posted by USN. Ret. 2007-04-26 18:22|| 2007-04-26 18:22|| Front Page Top

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