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Tankers torpedoed in the Middle East
Marine Traffic App ^ | June 13, 2019

Posted on 06/13/2019 12:49:44 AM PDT by tired&retired

Two tankers have been targeted this morning while transiting waters near to Fujairah. Frontline’s fully laden LR 2Front Altair was hit by surface attacks, and an enormous fire ensued forcing the crew to abandon ship. The crew were safely picked up by nearby general cargoship, Hyundai Dubai. Bernhard Schulte’s chemical tanker Kokuka Courageous was also hit.


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To: tired&retired

“The last 4 they are claiming were Limpet magnetic mines possibly placed by divers.”

That’s a joke. The maritime industry is doing disinformation to protect shipping and trade.

Hit above the water line = cruise missile. The Iranians have hundreds of varying types of cruise missiles deployed on the gulf. Some of them have ranges in excess of 900 miles.

This ship was only 25 miles from shore. It could have been targeted by Iranian shore radar.


81 posted on 06/13/2019 5:48:19 AM PDT by Justa
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To: mylife
"I swear I saw this picture months ago."

Well, that's interesting... There's not a lot of trust to be found in ANYTHING going on in the world nowadays...

82 posted on 06/13/2019 5:53:14 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: ETL
more pre-packaged BS right out of your little notebook

You're so entertaining it's a real shame you only show up when the Ukraine gets another influx of cash from Soros and his Hillarycrat criminal pals

83 posted on 06/13/2019 5:53:25 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: ETL

who is that poor child holding Michael Jacksons hand.


84 posted on 06/13/2019 5:56:15 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: tired&retired

Iran has saved 44 sailors from the tankers and took them to its territory, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.@@@@@@@@

“iran has taken 44 sailors hostage......more to come......”JMO


85 posted on 06/13/2019 5:59:34 AM PDT by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation!)
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To: Reno89519

“Not US ships, not our problem.”

1. One of the ships is flagged in American Samoa.
2. The free flow of commerce on the open seas has been a US burden since the time of Thomas Jefferson. It’s the entire purpose of the best Navy in the world.

The entirety of Western Civilization is dependent upon #2 above.


86 posted on 06/13/2019 6:02:44 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Rashputin
You're so entertaining it's a real shame you only show up when the Ukraine gets another influx of cash from Soros and his Hillarycrat criminal pals

LOL! Yet it was the Soros-supported DEMOCRATS who were actually colluding with your Russian pals! In fact, not only did the Soros-supported Democrats help your guy Putin out significantly on critical matters such as missile defense and nukes, including the New Start nuke treaty and the Iran nuke deal that Putin loved so much and boasted to have played a strong role in formulating, there was also the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal, where the Soros-suppported Dems allowed your Russian pals to seize control of 20% of US uranium production! The Soros-supported Dems also colluded with your Russian buds via Ukraine, through the PRO-RUSSIA people there. As you well know, there are two sides in the Ukraine, one pro-US, the other pro-Putin/pro-Russia.

So save your dishonest bullsh*t for someone who doesn't know anything about what's going on.

87 posted on 06/13/2019 6:07:53 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL
Abe is in Iran, an oil tanker bound for Japan is attacked, and you're spewing "Russia, Russia, Russia, Iran" in spite of the fact that neither Russia or Iran have anything but downside possible from such an attack.

If you're not being paid by Ukraine for spewing the Hillary/Soros party line you're just plain, flat out, stupid.

88 posted on 06/13/2019 6:13:35 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Chickensoup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJaWSdKKvGU


89 posted on 06/13/2019 6:14:54 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: Caipirabob

Any word lately from John Kerry and DiFiChi?


90 posted on 06/13/2019 6:17:05 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Rashputin
If you're not being paid by Ukraine for spewing the Hillary/Soros party line you're just plain, flat out, stupid.

Spewing the Hillary/Soros party line??? I just stuck the facts down your phony a** throat! That it was the Soros-supported DEMOCRATS who helped your Russian comrades in so many substantial ways! How in the friggin world is that "spewing the Hillary/Soros party line"?? You really are a despicable lying creep. Just be lucky this isn't my site,, else your fake butt would have been thrown off of here years ago.

91 posted on 06/13/2019 6:21:47 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: tired&retired

Sink every Iranian flagged ship on Earth......................


92 posted on 06/13/2019 6:37:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: tired&retired

Torpedoed?


93 posted on 06/13/2019 6:50:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Hold up. If ME oil gets expensive because of insurance, that is good for US oil. Iran is trying to make us some money.


94 posted on 06/13/2019 6:56:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: pepsionice

Um, no, unless you forgot your sarc tag. Sanity must prevail. “Above the waterline” and “limpet mines” means small surface craft and people without military skills or capital ships.

Anyone could have perpetrated these attacks and determining who these people are is the only way to identify the funding source, not going after Iran directly.

I’m deeply suspicious of a false flag.


95 posted on 06/13/2019 7:02:17 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Zhang Fei

Thank-you for the link. I had no idea we sank half of Iran’s fleet 30 years ago.


96 posted on 06/13/2019 7:03:50 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“false flag”


In consideration of “above the waterline” and “limpet mines”, yes indeed. IMHO.


97 posted on 06/13/2019 7:03:53 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Nextrush

Bush 41 was at EIGHTY or better approval after the war.

The msm killed him with lies about the economy.

Go and look up the above. It’s true

Or don’t :)

I’m usually not one of the older ones in a conversation but maybe you were too young to remember back then.

That would put you in your 30s and make me envious :)


98 posted on 06/13/2019 7:10:43 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: logi_cal869

“Above the waterline”

And the fact that internal hulls were only marginally damaged indicate a non-state actor.

Not to mention the fact these ships are still afloat.

The one on fire was carrying Naphtha. 75,000 tons of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha


99 posted on 06/13/2019 7:45:26 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tired&retired

Huge tankers and container ships have led to globalization which has it’s good and bad points.

If these ships are less likely to reach their destination, they will be less used, and globalization will be reduced.

Doesn’t sound like a bad thing.


100 posted on 06/13/2019 7:45:44 AM PDT by cymbeline
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