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Sunday Herald - Large quantities of BLU munitions being shipped to Diego Garcia
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/final-destination-iran-1.1013151 ^

Posted on 03/15/2010 7:31:08 AM PDT by jhpigott

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To: lormand

No kidding. Whatever happened to “loose lips sink ships”? I can just see a sympathetic reporter standing on the dock with a notepad watching people load stuff onto ships.


41 posted on 03/15/2010 8:27:18 AM PDT by Textide
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To: hennie pennie

Who knows? Just being prepared- at least.


42 posted on 03/15/2010 8:30:15 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: hellbender

Unless he has managed to shove elf care down our throat, then we’ll still be hopping mad (and there would be broad bipartisan support for the attacks on Iran, so it’s not as if voters are losing anything in that category by putting Republicans in power).


43 posted on 03/15/2010 8:35:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: MichaelP
Kind of bizarre info on that strange website:

"....Superior Maritime Svc Inc is a private company categorized under Deep Sea-Foreign Transport of Freight and located in Sunrise, FL. Our records show it was established in 2006 and incorporated in Florida. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of less than $500,000 and employs a staff of approximately 1 to 4....."

Is this how the U.S. military ships weapons??????????

44 posted on 03/15/2010 8:37:40 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: dirtboy

IF this is a truthful report, I want to know how the leaker of this data is still not enjoying a dirt bath. Has it occurred to anyone in the Intel community yet that the article contains all the data needed to attack the shipping?


45 posted on 03/15/2010 8:40:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: jhpigott

Well, that’s odd because I know a guy who works on the ships that were going to Diego Garcia and the government stopped the shipping to the island. The US was leasing the base from the British and the lease ran out. There is a big push being made to return the island to it’s native inhabitants, but the problem is, it doesn’t seem to have any real “native inhabitants.” Anyway the shipping is going somewhere in the Mediterranean, now, I think. Off the coast of Spain, maybe. I forget what the guy said, but he has been getting off the ship in Spain.


46 posted on 03/15/2010 8:50:37 AM PDT by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: MHGinTN

Maybe it was SUPPOSED to be a “honey trap” sting operation?


47 posted on 03/15/2010 8:52:59 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Constitution Day

“A thermobaric weapon would be a better choice to take out who ever is in a cave and then these could be used to close them...”

It’s been done to catastrophic effect before: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/639647/posts


48 posted on 03/15/2010 8:56:14 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
Too small to reach deep enough to take out Iran’s nuke sites...

Good enough for hardened leadership targets perhaps?

49 posted on 03/15/2010 9:01:20 AM PDT by xone
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To: jhpigott

More media treason- loose lips, and all that!


50 posted on 03/15/2010 9:01:44 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: wita

Somehow I cannot work out how all of those items will be stuffed in just 10 boxes.


51 posted on 03/15/2010 9:04:56 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: HiTech RedNeck
there would be broad bipartisan support for the attacks on Iran

That's just the point. The Republicans would feel obligated not to attack the CinC (those Pubbies who actually have the gonads to do so in the first place)and the Demonrats could squeak to a victory in 2010.

52 posted on 03/15/2010 9:33:56 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: eCSMaster

The Air Force seems to be pretty tight lipped as to how the explosive mixture works.


53 posted on 03/15/2010 9:38:58 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: MichaelP

Jeez. Manta had a virus?! Oy.


54 posted on 03/15/2010 9:42:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (No taxation without representation!)
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To: xone; Rebelbase

“Good enough for hardened leadership targets perhaps?”
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During the 34 Day War Israel used these to try to take out

deep bunkers in Lebanon,,,

Some over 100’ deep and they just would not reach that deep,,,

Some info :

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkwz6Zp5LekYBEwtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyb2dyaHFkBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0Y5NDVfOTM-/SIG=127l5aqcg/EXP=1268758650/**http%3a//www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-110.htm

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkl8naZ5LrIIBNutXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEya2szZjNtBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0Y5NDVfOTM-/SIG=12dm0aqna/EXP=1268759207/**http%3a//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition


55 posted on 03/15/2010 10:19:19 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

I’d be willing to bet that the majority of the top leadership of Iran don’t spend their lives 24/7 in bunkers that deep, maybe their nights. There are plenty of worthwhile relevant targets that can be serviced by these munitions.


56 posted on 03/15/2010 10:31:43 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

That’s true,,,

They’ve gotta come out sometimes,,,

If we could get a GPS fix on them we mite have better luck

with a UAV...


57 posted on 03/15/2010 11:03:37 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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heraldscotland
58 posted on 03/15/2010 11:05:14 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: hellbender
ding ding ding...iranian protesters should stay clear of anything that could be mistaken for a nuke site...

obambam could very well use it as a 'twofer' [or toof-ur in ebonics] to do his allies dirty work while garnerin a patriotic dead cat bounce just before nov...

59 posted on 03/15/2010 12:11:04 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: jhpigott

I just looked at TF to see if it was posted there, and voila! It was ;)


60 posted on 03/15/2010 12:16:18 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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