Posted on 03/19/2007 7:25:28 AM PDT by Valin
ABOARD THE FGS BREMEN: Pinned to a notice board on this German warship are three well-thumbed pictures of the USS Cole, its side ripped open after an al-Qaida suicide attack not far from where the FGS Bremen was cruising. "These photographs keep the crew focused," says Lt. Cmdr. Chris Scherrer. Seventeen American sailors were killed after the Cole was rammed by a tug boat packed with plastic explosives while moored in the Yemeni port of Aden in 2000.
The Bremen, a frigate bristling with high-tech weaponry and surveillance equipment, polices the seas to fight terror, part of Operation Enduring Freedom, set up in the wake of the 2001 Sept. 11 attacks. Patrolling off the coast of the Horn of Africa, it protects the world's most important shipping lanes through which two-thirds of the planet's oil shipments pass.
Here, piracy, drug smuggling and arms and people trafficking are rampant — the proceeds helping finance global terrorism, according to the Bahrain-based maritime force, known as Coalition Task Force 150 (CTF-150).
The 13-nation task force comprises U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Britain, Canada, Germany, Bahrain, New Zealand, Pakistan and Singapore. "The kind of war happening here is a silent war," said the Bremen's commander, Capt. Andreas Jedlicka, who has spent more than half his 42 years in the German Navy. His war is fought behind radar screens and using intelligence reports.
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B..b..b..but I thought all Moose Limbs supported the terrorists. [/sarc]
-Eric
Who fact checked this story?
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http://www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_cole.html
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On December 12, USS Cole (DDG-67), once a powerful symbol of U.S. military might, limped home aboard the Norwegian transport ship M/V Blue Marlin for repairs to a gaping hole left by a bomb attack in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors. The destroyer, unable to sail under its own steam, was carried into a cold & choppy Pascagoula Bay by the heavy-lift vessel Blue Marlin after a 6 week voyage from Yemen.
COLE was not rammed by rammed by a tugboat.
Ah! I thought you were talking about the number of killed.
That's what happens when I try to think.
More than likely a translation error. The article probably wasn't originally written in English.
Agreed. Still, it would have been nice to have someone polish up the translation a bit.
My expectations of the AP are so low that I'm happy when everything is spelled correctly...
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