What this basically proves is an AMERICAN PROVOCATION to apply the GLOBALIST SOLUTION of WARSHIP PATROLS!!
I have argued here for months that the pirates are being protected by the West to facilitate their presence in this vital shipping lane and to protect weapons shipments to East Africa.
Read between the lines of your lying, agenda-pushing MSM, America! It's ALL THERE for those willing to SEE!!!!!!!
"Captain is faulted in pirate attack; 4 contend Phillips ignored warnings of increased risk" by John Curran, Associated Press | December 3, 2009
Richard Phillips, the ship captain toasted as a hero after he was taken captive by Somali pirates, ignored repeated warnings last spring to keep his freighter at least 600 miles off the African coast because of the heightened risk of attack, some members of his crew now say.
Records obtained by The Associated Press show that maritime safety groups issued at least seven such warnings in the days before outlaws boarded the Maersk Alabama in the Gulf of Aden, about 380 miles offshore. A piracy specialist and the captain’s second-in-command say Phillips had the prerogative to heed the warnings. But some crew members - including the chief engineer, the helmsman, and the navigator - say he was negligent not to change course after learning of pirate activity.
Or he WANTED to PROVOKE an INCIDENT to JUSTIFY the GLOBALIST PATROLS!!!!!
“If you go to the grocery store and eight people get mugged on that street, wouldn’t you go a different way?’’ asked the ship’s navigator, Ken Quinn, of Tampa. Sailing beyond the 600-mile threshold would have added more than a day to the Alabama’s voyage to Mombasa, Kenya, and used extra fuel, according to the ship’s previous captain, who said Phillips had years of experience sailing in those waters.
Four of the 20 crew members told the AP that they blame Phillips for the hijacking. “He caused this, and we all know it,’’ said chief engineer Mike Perry of Riverview, Fla. “All the Alabama crew knows about it.’’
Reached by telephone at his home in Underhill, Vt., Phillips said he could not answer every “spurious accusation’’ and that he expected such criticism. “But I don’t wish to say anything. I want you to report that I had no comment,’’ he said.
One of the crew members who blame Phillips is part of a lawsuit filed against Maersk Line Ltd. alleging the company was negligent in sending the ship into treacherous waters without more protection. The other members are not involved in any legal action related to the hijacking. A separate complaint has also been filed against Phillips with the US Coast Guard.
Captain Shane Murphy of Plymouth, who was second-in-command during the siege, defended Phillips. “If he was warned to stay off a certain distance and he stayed closer, I’m sure he thought he had a reason for doing it and felt like he was justified in it,’’ Murphy said.
Doesn't this ABSOLUTELY STINK!?!
Maersk Line officials would not comment on the advisories or on Phillips’ handling of them, citing the pending legal cases. Company spokesman Kevin Speers would say only that the Maersk Alabama operated in “high-risk waters quite frequently, and that is part of the considerations that we take in putting together vessel security plans.’’
SecureWest International, a maritime security organization that issued several of the advisories, would not respond to requests for comment. The AP obtained copies of the advisories from a fifth crew member who did not want to be interviewed on the record.--more--"
Yeah, sure is strange how cagey those crafty pirates are, huh?
"Somali pirates snatch Greek tanker with $20m in crude; Unescorted ship bound for US with a crew of 28" by Katharine Houreld, Associated Press | December 1, 2009
NAIROBI - Crews on oil tankers are not allowed to smoke above deck, much less carry guns, for fear of igniting the ship’s payload. That’s one of the main reasons Somali pirates met little resistance when they hijacked a US-bound supertanker carrying $20 million in crude.
The Greek-flagged tanker - traveling from Saudi Arabia to New Orleans - had no escort when it was hijacked Sunday because naval warships were not available.
How much are we spending to patrol those waters? Were not available?
You understand I no longer buy any of this horse s***, right, MSM?
I mean, every article is filled with such outrageous crapola it gets difficult to read.
The problem has been further exacerbated because pirates have expanded their operations to hundreds of miles out at sea.
Well, if the PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN WORSE (?) then the SHIPS SHOULD BE RECALLED!!
WTF?!!!
What did I say at the top, readers?
The hijacking, one year after seizure of a Saudi supertanker led to heightened international efforts to fight piracy off the Horn of Africa, has highlighted the difficulty of keeping ships safe in the region - particularly oil tankers.
Yeah, what AGENDA-PUSHING BULLSHIT!!
They JUST TOLD YOU in the only way they know how!!!
So ALL THAT TECHNICAL JUNK we have is WORTHLESS, huh?
All the TRILLIONS in RADAR and SATELLITE is worth NOTHING, huh?
Can't even find a pirate in a poop, huh?
The Maran Centaurus was about 800 miles off the coast of Somalia when it was hijacked with 28 crew, said Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU Naval Force.
WhereTF where they?
Yesterday, it was headed toward Somalia’s lawless coast, a location where pirates probably will hold the vessel as they attempt to negotiate a multimillion-dollar ransom. While some ships traveling in the region have been outfitted with high-pressure water guns and piercing noisemakers to repel pirates, even this is shunned on oil tankers for fear of triggering a response from pirates armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
“If you’re not allowed to smoke a cigarette on the upper deck of an oil tanker, why would you want someone with a weapon up there?’’ said Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, who heads the private security company Dryad Maritime Intelligence.
There is also the threat that an accident or gunfight could lead to a leak that would devastate thousands of miles of ocean or coastline. Protecting the huge tankers that carry more than half of the world’s oil supply is made even more difficult because of their slow speed....
Have YOU had it with the EXCUSES? I have!!!
If this were true, there would BE PIRACY EVERYWHERE!!!
Or IS THERE and this is ONE MORE THING the AmeriKan MSM is CONCEALING?
Either way....
Gibbon-Brooks suggesting the best way to evade attack was for tankers to increase speed and steer the ship 30 to 45 degrees either side of its course. The swinging motion increases wake, destabilizing pirate skiffs, and keeps the low stern moving where pirates usually board. Trailing nets or lines behind vessels can also help by fouling the propellers of pirate skiffs, he said....
I guess the captain didn't know that.
Gibbon-Brooks said he had recently received information from contacts in Somalia that more attacks were planned on tankers.
"Looks like the American public is being "softened up" for some kind of military attack against Somalia.And why? One little 3-letter word: oil" -- Wake the Flock Up
Can't really dispute him, can you?
Twenty percent of global shipping - including 8 percent of global oil shipments - is funneled into the narrow, pirate-infested Gulf of Aden that leads through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal. '
Nope.
The route is bordered on one side by the failed state of Somalia and on the other by the unstable country of Yemen....
That's why they needed the CAPTAIN'S PROVOCATION!
I'll have to deal with them in my next post.
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Somalia Agenda Exposed: Obama is Butch!
Somalia Agenda Exposed: In Obama's Sights
Somalia Agenda Exposed: Agenda-Pushing Op
Somalia Agenda Exposed: Pirate TV Show
Yeah, I've seen it.
What You Give is What You Get
Somalia Agenda Exposed: MSM Admits Blogs Told the Truth
Next U.S. Attack: Somalia
Somalia Sending Terrorists to America
That's very interesting seeing what happened yesterday:
"Somalia blames al-Qaida, Somali group for bombing" by Mohamed Olad Hassan, Associated Press Writer | December 4, 2009
Mourners lower the body of Minister of Health Qamar Adan Ali, background under a cloth covering the grave, as the body of Minister for Higher Education, Ibrahim Hasan Ado, lies right, awaiting burial in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday Dec. 4, 2009. Somalia's most powerful Islamic militant group said Friday it was not responsible for a suicide bomb attack on a university graduation ceremony that killed 22 people. The Thursday bombing ripped through the ceremony at an upscale hotel in Mogadishu, killing medical students, doctors, journalists and three government ministers. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Already a stink, and not just the corpses!!
And wouldn't you know it, a REWRITTEN, REEDITED ARTICLE from what is PRINTED on my DESK!
I'm REALLY GETTING SICK of this s***, Glob!!!!!! It is ALL THE TIME NOW!!
What are you HIDING?!!!!
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's security minister on Friday blamed al-Qaida-linked Islamic militants for a bomb attack that killed 22 people in Mogadishu.
Related: "Al-CIA-Duh" School in Somalia
Now you know WHO is TRAINING THEM, readers!!!!
Thursday's bombing ripped through a university graduation ceremony at an upscale hotel in the Somali capital, killing medical students, doctors, journalists and three government ministers.
Somalia's most powerful Islamic militant group said Friday it was not responsible for the attack, but Security Minister Abdullahi Muhammad Ali blamed al-Qaida through their affiliation with al-Shabab. "The investigation is still under way to uncover evidence of who might have been behind the attack, but we already know that this is the work of al-Qaida through their affiliated group al-Shabab, because of the nature of the attack and the tactics used," said Ali....
Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for past suicide attacks in Somalia, and has never denied carrying out an attack. But militant groups tend to distance themselves from bombings that kill large numbers of civilians -- attacks that could draw popular outrage.
Translation: This CIA-sponsored atrocity has BACKFIRED!!!!
The bombing of a graduation ceremony for medical students and other graduates in a country that needs as many doctors as it can get drew swift condemnation from around the world.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Islamic militants in Somalia have shown a rising ability to carry out sophisticated large-scale bombings against high-profile targets. The bombing also highlighted the inability of Somalia's weak government to protect even the small section of the capital it controls. African troops protecting the weak Somali government wage near daily battles with Islamic militants who hold much of central and southern Somalia.
Related: The Silent Civilian Slaughter in Somalia
Yeah, strange how RARE the REPORTING is for EVERYDAY DEATHS!
Instead we get PIRATES!!!
The government holds only a few square blocks in Mogadishu, though that didn't prevent Thursday's suicide bomber from gaining entry into the ceremony.
Huh.
It's the SAME THING EVERY FRIKKIN' TIME, isn't it?
Several hundred people had gathered in the Shamo Hotel to watch the 43 medical, engineering and computer science students from Benadir University receive their diplomas when the blast ripped through the festively decorated ballroom. The bomber "disguised himself as a woman, complete with a veil and a female's shoes," said Somali Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Gelle, who confirmed that the ministers for education, higher education and health were killed in the blast.
With EACH PARAGRAPH the OUTRAGEOUS BULLS*** FLOWS!!
I'm sorry, world, but I NO LONGER BELIEVE in SUICIDERS of "Al-CIA-Duh!"
And I CERTAINLY DO NOT BELIEVE a LYING NEWS MEDIA!!!!
Amateur video of the attack obtained by AP Television News showed the dead, including at least three journalists, lying in pools of blood amid the sound of wails and screams from the wounded. Soldiers, their AK-47 rifles slung over their shoulders, picked through the wreckage with their hands as survivors climbed over the debris....
The one paragraph that they saved verbatim.
The bomb exploded about a yard (meter) from journalists covering the event. Associated Press journalist Mohamed Olad Hassan said that people closer to the explosion shielded him from the blast.
Wow, it blew up right next to this guy, huh? PFFFFFTTT!
In New York, the U.N. Security Council condemned the attack, saying: "This was a criminal attack on people dedicated to building a peaceful, stable and prosperous future for the people of Somalia." A statement issued by the U.S., European Union, African Union and the Arab League also condemned the attack.....
CUI BONO?
A moderate Islamist was elected president in January amid hopes he could unite the country's feuding factions, but the violence has continued....
What distortion.
If this were true, why did the U.S. oust him back in 2007 when he had done just that?
Related: Somali Peace Pleas Met With Silence
Yeah, OUR CIA WARLORDS morphed into PIRATES, folks!!!
Suicide bombings, unheard of in Somalia before 2007, have become increasingly frequent and the lawlessness has raised concerns that al-Qaida is trying to gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa....
So WHEN does the US ARMY ARRIVE?!!!
Ever notice SUICIDERS NEVER SHOW UP until "Al-CIA-Duh" does?
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed is calling the bombing an imported idea to prevent Somalia from achieving peace....
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
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Of course, the web version gives you an "update" from the.... ugh!
"Suicide bomber rocks Somalia; Three Cabinet officials among 22 killed in blast" by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times | December 4, 2009
NAIROBI - In a devastating blow to Somalia’s fragile transitional government, a suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman blew himself up at a college graduation ceremony in the capital yesterday, killing at least 16 people, including three government ministers, Somali officials said.
How do they know it was a man?
The attack killed more high-ranking Somali officials than any before it, illustrating how weak the nation’s government is. The fact that the government cannot protect even its own officials could further undermine the support it needs, especially within the country.The killings may also increase the urgency for the government, which has a pipeline of several thousand young soldiers in training, to go on the offensive before it is too late.
And CUI BONO, huh, readers?!!
Yup, AS USUAL!!!!!!
The bomber struck in a part of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, that was thought be relatively safe, though many Somalis fear Islamic insurgents have infiltrated the government’s security forces all across the city. The insurgents seem to have the ability to strike at will, as they did in September when they attacked a heavily fortified African Union peacekeeping base, killing more than a dozen peacekeepers.
Though no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, it had all the hallmarks of Al Shabab, an extremist Islamist group in Somalia that is drawing increasingly close to Al Qaeda and harbors the ambition not only to rule Somalia, but also to foment a holy war across Africa....
All right, THAT DOES IT! I have HAD ENOUGH NYT s*** for one day!!!
This is SUCH GOVERNMENT GARBAGE it MAKES YOU SICK!!!!
Except for the LAST PARAGRAPH, of course!!!
The United States has been pouring in millions of dollars in weapons for the government, though because of rampant defections, many of those guns immediately fell into Shabab hands, Somali officials have conceded.
And we are SCHOOLING THEM in how to USE THEM!!!
Yeah, THAT IS HOW WE DO IT EVERYWHERE!!!!
You would be surprised: ARMING the "enemy" is a VERY EFFECTIVE WAY to KEEP WARS and WAR PROFITS going!!!!
Other Western countries are helping to pay for the training of thousands of young Somalis to become the backbone of the new army. A government offensive was planned for this winter, but many people doubt it will make any difference.
Oh, really?
Especially those who will LOOSE FAMILY MEMBERS and LOVED ONES over LIES, huh?
And if the government were lacking resolve, well.... they shouldn't be now, cui bono?
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