Iraqi 'terror ships' at sea

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/3453118?source=Evening ^

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks for the post.

It's easy to start a new paragraph. Just type in < p > at the point where you want the paragraph to begin.

[Blueflag]

There's not a lot of deep water right 'off the coast of Iraq'. I wonder what map ABC 'news' looked at. Any large ship steaming in circles outside the shipping lanes in the Gulf would be very obvious

[thinking]

there is a simple solution...sink them!

[Republican Red]

This report was headlined on Drudge last night. An article in the British paper Independence was "reporting" on it.
Druge now has no mention of the article.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Never, ever, ever do that again young heathen!!

Ahrrrrrr!

But good post, though.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Maybe these ships are going to be Saddam's ticket out...his personal exile convoy.

[mware]

Just sink the damn things !!!

What...and have the environmentalist blame us because of an environmental disaster????

I would rather they trail this until out special op's go in and take it out. Can't wait to see what nations names are on the parts.

[Lion's Cub]

There would be no environmental disaster. We have weapons that would vaporize any bio/chem agents that were there. But even if we didn't, the ocean itself would so dilute anything as to render it harmless.

I read about this yesterday in the thread piasa linked. Having slept on the matter, this makes no sense. With all of our missile capabilities, why would these ships essentially just sit there?

IMO, our news organizations are correct to go slow with this story.

[xzins]

Hey Blue, you are the naval expert come to think of it.

How could you take these down without polluting the ocean with their stores? Do we really worry if vx or biologics get dumped into the sea...are they even potent in that environment?

Also, any way to burn them with heat rounds setting them afire?

[McGruff]

I remember in the last couple of days someone on TV commenting on how easy it would to be to sail a terrorist ship up the Hudson river (around NY City) and release an attack.

I found it strange why he would bring this up. Maybe he had this information then.

[mikhailovich]

Can inspectors swim? Just wondering.

[Library Lady]

Just sink the damn things !!!

Then the lefties would insist that Bush produce the proof that there were WMD on the ships. What proof? It would be at the bottom of the ocean. According to them it would be just another right-wing conspiracy to get us into the war.

[Eternal_Bear]

Very curious indeed. I also wonder how many Syrian, Iranian, Libyan, N Korean and Chinese terror ships are now sailing or can sail soon? Might be scores out there.

[txradioguy]

AMEN!!! A couple of Mk. 48 torpedos from one of the SSN's in the region would do the trick. I bet that's how they're tracking these ships in the first place.

[Frapster]

lol - welcome to 'life as we know it' on FR. Thanks for the article - I hadn't seen it.

[vin-one]

the only problem with vaporizing these ships is if they have, Nuke's on board,
that would be a big oops on our part
I would imagine our seals are ready, willing, and able to take care of this job.

[Uncle Miltie]

Do we have any nukes that need testing? Incineration at sea would seem a comparatively safe course of action.

[txradioguy]

Not necessairily. We could blow the ships without detonating the nukes. They have to have their trigger mechanism activated and torpedoing the ship would not do that. Then when it's been sunk, we simply send in Navy divers to inspect the cargo and determine if anything needs to be removed.

[VOA]

bump

[vin-one]

well I did know that I was thinking more along the lines of the waste seeping out from
the bottom of the ocean for the next 10,000 years. but then again if it is off the coast of Iraq no big deal.