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Iran's Revolutionary Guards question US sailors, dismiss talk of prompt release
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | 13 Jan 2016 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2016 11:42:31 PM PST by BlackVeil

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To: BlackVeil
Ha...I can just guess Trumps Tweet:

Obama fired Admiral Top US Admiral Fired For Questioning his Purchase Of Mansion In Dubai...but ignores 10 sailors captured by Iran.

Obama fired Admiral Top US Admiral Fired For Questioning Obama Purchase Of Mansion In Dubai 01/11/2016 5:13:58 PM PST · by dontreadthis · 83 replies awdnews ^ | 10 January 2016 |

Top News A stunning new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that one of the United States Navy’s top commanders was relieved of his command a few hours ago after he sent out an “email/posting” revealing that President Barack Obama was in the process of purchasing a multi-million dollar seaside luxury villa in the United Arab Emirates city (UAE) of Dubai. According to this report, the Commander of the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 15, Rear Admiral Rick Williams, posted a “pointed” query on 8 January [since deleted] to the US Naval Institute’s “Readiness Kill Chain” “recipients/responders”.

21 posted on 01/13/2016 12:04:55 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: BlackVeil

Ping


22 posted on 01/13/2016 12:06:47 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: BlackVeil

And so it goes in Carter’s third term.


23 posted on 01/13/2016 12:07:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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So much John Kerry getting his Peace Prize...

or was this planned?

Now we give up GITMO or the $150 billion to get our hostages?

Who ordered the Navy to stand down?


24 posted on 01/13/2016 12:07:36 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: BlackVeil

These are the guys I’d like to see blown off the face of the planet. And the mullahs. The Persian people- not so much.

Surely, everyone is praying for these sailors. Their captors are sick beyond anything most of us can fathom.


25 posted on 01/13/2016 12:07:41 AM PST by KGeorge
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‘America is the most powerful nation on earth - nobody else is even close’: Obama at the SOTU.

Oops!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/13/iran-says-prompt-release-detained-us-sailors-is-speculation.html


26 posted on 01/13/2016 12:09:47 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

The only thing missing is Obama’s sweater speech in front of the fireplace telling us to expect less.


27 posted on 01/13/2016 12:10:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: PhilDragoo
BRAVO.....you're brilliant, Phil.

And this nation is in BIG TROUBLE !

28 posted on 01/13/2016 12:18:40 AM PST by nopardons
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To: TigerClaws

That disgraceful piece of crap. . . He loves this.


29 posted on 01/13/2016 12:19:14 AM PST by KGeorge
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To: TigerClaws

Yes, it appears that history IS repeating itself.


30 posted on 01/13/2016 12:20:24 AM PST by nopardons
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To: BlackVeil

This has to make Omaba’s SOTU speech the biggest embarrassment in SOTU history.


31 posted on 01/13/2016 12:21:55 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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32 posted on 01/13/2016 12:33:47 AM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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Wa Po is reporting that if the interrogations show they were spying, Iranian officials will take action!!!

I feel sick.


33 posted on 01/13/2016 12:34:44 AM PST by MarMema
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Let's look at the map.....J.E. Dyer... a retired Naval Intelligence officer writes as follows.....

... if these boats were really doing what the White House says they were doing, they had to go substantially off course to "run aground" on (or near?) Farsi Island..... The corridor depicted on the map shows a rough area between the territorial waters of Saudi Arabia and Iran (Farsi Island) where the boats would presumably have been in transit. To be "picked up by Iran," they"d have to have been on or near Iranian territory.

... But in that part of the Gulf, there's only Farsi Island that meets that description. It' not like they could have run aground on some other rock claimed by Iran and then been taken to Farsi Island. They had to be a good 20 nautical miles off course to be that close to Farsi Island, something that "drifting" while out of communications doesn't really explain. (The time factor is wrong: the Navy in Manama wouldn't ignore it that long if comms had been lost. There would have been a helicopter out there pronto.)

In addition to which, it makes zero sense for "some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats" to cause "them" - both boats? - to run aground............This story doesn't hang together, as it stands right now." ....end quote.

(Side note:.... The Islamic Revolutionary Guard operates its military facilities on Farsi Island and would in any case conduct any seizure like this one.... The regular military is subordinate to the national civilian command structure, but the IRGC is subordinate to the Revolutionary Council, which is headed by the Ayatollah.)

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34 posted on 01/13/2016 12:38:04 AM PST by caww
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Excellent info. Please post in my other thread:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3383021/posts


35 posted on 01/13/2016 12:39:13 AM PST by TigerClaws
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The Trumpinator would have this cleared up in a matter of hours.


36 posted on 01/13/2016 12:42:08 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: TigerClaws

Done.


37 posted on 01/13/2016 12:44:07 AM PST by caww
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To: TigerClaws

We can really only speculate.....could it have been a “Seals” operation? But then they surely would have had backup to get them out right away.


38 posted on 01/13/2016 12:48:00 AM PST by caww
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Thanks.

Read this:

http://news.sky.com/story/1621569/iran-interrogating-us-sailors-detained-in-gulf

They only captured 10 - 9 men and 1 woman.

5 the normal size crew? I’m wondering if anther 10 were killed.


39 posted on 01/13/2016 12:48:22 AM PST by TigerClaws
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They had two boats


40 posted on 01/13/2016 12:50:03 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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