Posted on 02/24/2024 12:27:20 PM PST by dynachrome
An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused an 18-mile (29-kilometer) oil slick, the U.S. military said Saturday. It also warned of the danger of a spill from the vessel’s cargo of fertilizer.
The Rubymar, a British-registered, Lebanese-operated cargo vessel, was attacked on Feb. 18 while sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, U.S. Central Command said.
The missile attack forced the crew to abandon the vessel, which had been on its way to Bulgaria after leaving Khorfakkan in the United Arab Emirates. It was transporting more than 41,000 tons of fertilizer, CENTCOM said in a statement.
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Fani went to Belize.
Thank Traitor Joe's Green New Deal!
That happens when you get your crap blown up by ragheads defend yourselves already
An environmental disaster caused by Iranian terrorists backed by China and Russia, and the Dems are already blaming Trump for it.
Evidently some areas of the world could care less about the environment.
How about some US city protest marches and sitdowns against the Arabs for harming the climate and the future of the planet’s ecosystem?
I remember the news scenes when Saddam Hussein deliberately opened the oil valves (as well as set fire to others) out of spite and you could see helpless, suffering birds on the sand, painfully trying to escape before they died, covered in oil.
I was sad over that——sincerely.
Presuming that is the British ship described the other day, “at risk of sinking.”
“...when Saddam Hussein deliberately opened the oil valves (as well as set fire to others) out of spite and you could see helpless, suffering birds on the sand, painfully trying to escape before they died, covered in oil. “
I remember young women in my church group at the time who were all against the war until they saw the oily birds.
Then they turned into Patton and were ready to kill !
LOL !
Presuming that is the British ship described the other day, “at risk of sinking.”
Thing is, there appears to me more worry about the oil spill rather than the fact that a hostile group is shutting down a major transportation route. Lots of oil was spilled during WWII and the environment survived.
Nice photo.
So, libtards, there it is. This is the by-product of your warmongering elite, through your President, Warmonger Joe.
Time to start hitting military and civilian targets of equal value in Yemen. Better yet, each strike should be repaid ten times over. They will just keep doing this as long as there is no cost to them for their behavior.
Microbes exist in the sea that consume oil.
This is insignificant.
Oil constantly leaks through fissures in the sea bed in far greater quantities than man spills.
They’re an oppressed people, so they’re allowed to disrupt shipping, poison fish and cause global warming. just so long as somebody’s vacation at Eilat is ruined.
“a hostile group is shutting down a major transportation route”
That’s too narrow of a focus. It is MOSLEMS trying to destroy Israel and all Jews.
That’s too narrow of a focus.
We need to send Greta down to set those Houthis straight! HOW DARE THEY!
There's a good, succinct summary on Wiki showing the historical parallels...
The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture slaves for the Barbary slave trade. Slaves in Barbary could be of many ethnicities, and of many different religions, such as Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing merchant ships, they engaged in razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland.So it took multinational, concerted action to put an end to the Barbary Pirate depredations.While such raids began after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the 710s, the terms "Barbary pirates" and "Barbary corsairs" are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards, when the frequency and range of the slavers' attacks increased. In that period, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the Barbary states.
Barbary corsairs captured thousands of merchant ships and repeatedly raided coastal towns. As a result, residents abandoned their former villages of long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy. The raids were such a problem that coastal settlements were seldom undertaken until the 19th century.
Between 1580 and 1680 corsairs were said to have captured about 850,000 people as slaves and from 1530 to 1780 as many as 1.25 million people were enslaved. The effects of the Barbary raids peaked in the early-to-mid-17th century.
The scope of corsair activity began to diminish in the latter part of the 17th century, as the more powerful European navies started to compel the Barbary states to make peace and cease attacking their shipping. However, the ships and coasts of Christian states without such effective protection continued to suffer until the early 19th century. Between 1801 and 1815, occasional incidents occurred, including two Barbary Wars waged by the United States, Sweden and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, European powers agreed upon the need to suppress the Barbary corsairs entirely. The threat was finally subdued by the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent pacification by the French during the mid-to-late 19th century.
It took the European powers a few hundred years to finally decide to wipe out the moslem pirates. Can we do the same thing today?
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