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Greenpeace: "Arctic Sunrise"'s crew is kneeled at gunpoint
FlashNord (in Russian) ^ | 09/19/2013

Posted on 09/20/2013 1:03:50 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior

The crew has been herded to the upper deck and forced to stay there kneeled at gunpoint. Some crewman locked themselves in the radioshack. A search is underway, doors are being beaten out. We still hold the press-room from Spetznaz. We'll keep on writing on what is going on here. We don't know for how long the door will survive.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: arctic; arcticsunrise; bho44; bhorussia; greenpeace; maritime; russia; spetznaz
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To: Freelance Warrior

Johnny kerry probably in a hurry to save these brethren. Hillary will probably not try the what difference line on this one. And our fearless leader will say it is still to early to say... drivel drivel drivel.


21 posted on 09/20/2013 4:04:40 AM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

KEEL HAUL THE GREEN WEENIES!


22 posted on 09/20/2013 4:05:20 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Freelance Warrior

If it was spetznaz, they wouldn’t be standing around kicking at the door while the greenies whined. If it wasn’t by design :).


23 posted on 09/20/2013 4:18:10 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: bIlluminati
They should be safe in the radio shack. Nobody goes in there any more.

The spetznaz won't sell them batteries until they give their name and address.

24 posted on 09/20/2013 4:20:35 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Freelance Warrior
Too bad so sad.

If this stuff keeps up I'm going to get a man-crush on Putin.

25 posted on 09/20/2013 4:22:16 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Well, yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day...


26 posted on 09/20/2013 4:22:24 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Terry L Smith

The Russians have been claiming portions of the Arctic Sea as territorial waters, in defiance of all international treaties. It could be that Greenpeace is in the right, here, and trying to enforce international right to navigation. A job the United States Navy used to do, before it got caught up in babysitting the Middle East 24/7.


27 posted on 09/20/2013 4:24:44 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Haiku Guy
It could be that Greenpeace is in the right, here, and trying to enforce international right to navigation.

Lol..that will be the day.

28 posted on 09/20/2013 4:38:41 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Judicious application of high explosives will remedy this problem


29 posted on 09/20/2013 4:40:20 AM PDT by contrarian (fire in the hole........)
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To: BigCinBigD

I hope that they do.


30 posted on 09/20/2013 4:46:00 AM PDT by sport
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To: Freelance Warrior

I’m thinking a well-hidden bomb on the hull set to go off in a week or so. Send them on their way today and let them sink somewhere else.


31 posted on 09/20/2013 4:48:25 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Terry L Smith

We can hope.


32 posted on 09/20/2013 4:48:29 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport

Thin about how the Greenpeace ship will make a nifty fish habitat with large holes in it to make it easy for the fish to go in and out..Excellent repurposing the boat...


33 posted on 09/20/2013 4:51:54 AM PDT by contrarian (fire in the hole........)
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To: Haiku Guy
Greenpeace illegally boarded a Russian drilling rig.

That is what started this.

34 posted on 09/20/2013 4:58:02 AM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Dogfaced Soldier; bIlluminati

Funny comment in an understated way
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Used to get a lot of
“What do they do in there? What is that strange noise”?

“Ifn I tell ya, I gotta kill ya”.


35 posted on 09/20/2013 5:01:20 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Egoist:A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. (Ambrose Bierce))
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To: 2111USMC

Did the Russian drilling rig in question have a legal right to be there?


36 posted on 09/20/2013 5:01:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: All

much more detailed article here...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Armed-Russian-Officials-Board-Greenpeace-Ship-Hold-Activists-At-Gunpoint-384774.shtml


37 posted on 09/20/2013 5:02:21 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: bIlluminati

LOL!


38 posted on 09/20/2013 5:04:02 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Armed-Russian-Officials-Board-Greenpeace-Ship-Hold-Activists-At-Gunpoint-384774.shtml

This past Thursday, armed Russian officials raided a Greenpeace ship dubbed the Arctic Sunrise and held the activists aboard it at gunpoint. Eventually, they arrested them.

Information shared with the public says that the Russian officials raided the Arctic Sunrise in an attempt to keep the Greenpeace members from protesting Russian oil company Gazprom by boarding one of its oil platforms in the Pechora Sea in the Russian Arctic.

Presently, workers aboard this oil platform are looking to drill for oil in said region. The Greenpeace activists, who strongly oppose drilling in the Arctic, have already staged a protest against their plans.

Thus, it was only this past Wednesday when two greenheads attempted to scale the oil platform. They were caught and arrested by Russian coastguards.

The Arctic Sunrise’s raid occurred in the aftermath of this incident, Daily Mail tells us.

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39 posted on 09/20/2013 5:04:22 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: Freelance Warrior

Just treat them like snobby pirates, Ivan.


40 posted on 09/20/2013 5:06:02 AM PDT by Anton.Rutter
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