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Iran Enters Hornets Nest: Parks Two Warships Off Yemen Coast Immediately Next To Two US Aircraft Carriers

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The probability of a major escalation over the latest proxy Middle Eastern civil war just escalated substantially.

While it has been widely reported that the United States has been accelerating its weapons supply to the Saudi-led coalition striking rebels in Yemen as a sign of how foreign powers are deepening their involvement in the conflict, the biggest regional backer of the Houthi rebels, the state of Iran, had been mostly inert. Until this morning, when as AP reports, Iran dispatched a naval destroyer and another vessel Wednesday to waters near Yemen.

According to Iran's English-language state broadcaster Press TV, the official reason for the mini flotilla is a peacekeeping mission meant to deter piracy. It quoted Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari as saying the ships would be part of an anti-piracy campaign "safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region." The real reason has nothing to do with pirates and everything to do with showing that there is another interest party in a conflict that until now has seen unilateral involvement mainly by the Saudi-led and US supported Gulf Arab air campaign targeting the Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis.

As for the topic of US support, speaking a day earlier in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed the violence in Yemen on the Houthis, and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, saying that the U.S. is committed to defending Saudi Arabia.

"We have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint coordination and planning cell in the Saudi operations center," he said in a statement to reporters after meeting with Saudi royals and Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled his country amid rebel advances.

Ironically, the U.S. said that the chaos has allowed the local al-Qaida branch, which it considers the world's most dangerous wing of the group, to make "great gains" on the ground, causing Washington to rethink how it prevents it from launching attacks in the West.

"Ironic", because as reported previously, it was the US' own hasty departure from the Houthi overrun country that provided $500 millions of dollars in "misplaced" modern weaponry and supplies to these same rebels.

 

That was the US side of things. Here is Iran's via Press TV:

The 34th fleet of the Iranian Navy has left for the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab Strait in line with the country’s policy of safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region.

 

The flotilla, which comprises the Bushehr logistic vessel and Alborz destroyer, left Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Wednesday, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on the sidelines of a ceremony to deploy the fleet. 

The Alborz destroyer shown here in a Feb. 21, 2010 file photo.

More from Press TV:

The commander said that the 34th Fleet is sent on a mission “to provide [safety for] Iran’s shipping lines and protect the Islamic Republic of Iran’s interests in the high seas.” Sayyari said that the flotilla also seeks to ensure safety for the vessels against pirates.

 

The Navy observes international law while conducting its mission in the north of the Indian Sea with full power, the commander stressed. 

 

In recent years, Iran’s Navy has increased its presence in international waters to protect naval routes and provide security for merchant vessels and tankers.

 

In line with international efforts against piracy, the Iranian Navy has also been conducting patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008 in order to safeguard merchant containers and oil tankers owned or leased by Iran or other countries.

 

Iran’s Navy has managed to foil several attacks on both Iranian and foreign tankers during its missions in international waters.

As Al-Arabia adds, "Iran has condemned the campaign and called for dialogue. Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of providing military support to the Houthis, a charge the Islamic Republic denies. The Iranian ships will patrol the Gulf of Aden, south of Yemen, and the Red Sea, Sayyari said. The area is one of the world's most important shipping routes and a gateway between Europe and the Middle East."

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And now the punchline: as the following Naval update map shows, the two Iran warships will now be located in the immediate vicinity of not only two US aircraft carriers, CVN-71 Teddy Roosevelt and CVN-70 Vinson, but well as the big-deck amphibious warship Iwo Jima which as reported before is providing marine support should the situation demand it.

All of this means the odds of a naval "accident" involving one or more warships in the Red Sea just went up substantially.

 

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Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:33 | 5970583 overmedicatedun...
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Iran is a big pussy..bet those ships have no ammo, and will do Nothing to aid those brothers in yemen..big pussy loudmouths doing nothing they are experts at avoiding direct actions. laughable

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:58 | 5970706 overmedicatedun...
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I see there are alot of big pussy haters on zh today..sarc tags not used are wasted i guess..

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:31 | 5970587 Arnold
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Joint Naval Operations.

Potus wins one for a few seconds.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:32 | 5970590 Amish Hacker
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The Iranian war ships are in close proximity to the American carriers, yes, but they are also in close proximity to Iran.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:46 | 5970648 Jonas Parker
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If we have the smarts to shoot first, the Iranian ships go down damn near instantly. Do we have the smarts? Does Obozo have the smarts? Naw! Thiswill cost us a CVA...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:12 | 5970788 Arnold
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Ooops................ that "\'Do not Push'\" button really does  something!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:33 | 5971600 Max Steel
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Right wing nutter

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:32 | 5970591 Bone Nower
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Generals gathered in their masses   dun dun 

Just like witches at black masses  dun dun 

Evil minds that plot destruction dun dun 

Sorcerers of death's construction  dun dun 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:33 | 5970596 XqWretch
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We gavethem boats? lmao... like one article said, at this point, who DOESNT have US made weapons? Oh except Americans of course

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:35 | 5970605 Arnold
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Chinese weapons have certain cost advantages.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:00 | 5970726 Amish Hacker
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Or maybe not, when you can get the American weapons for free.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:34 | 5970598 dsty
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Part of Obama's plan.

Saudi Arabia next.

Break em shake em.

collect the marbles. 

Denish was right

Obama Caliphate

http://www.westernjournalism.com/dinesh-right-obama-forming-global-calip...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:10 | 5970781 Atticus Finch
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You must still believe in the Democratic and Republican distraction as where real power lays. Bush, Obama, Clinton they are all shills to the real power.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:14 | 5971182 dsty
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OH don't tell me

It's the ZIONISTS per ZH.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:36 | 5971612 Herd Redirectio...
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Zionist is just a specific flavor of fascism, if that helps you understand it.  It has nothing to do with certain nations and/or religious beliefs.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:57 | 5972160 dsty
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there seems to be numerous folks here that think it's all about Israel.

Obama just loves Israel, right?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 16:18 | 5972594 tony wilson and...
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dsty moshe baby

never forget the uss liberty

already

my boy

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:44 | 5970599 JustObserving
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We have expedited weapons deliveries

The Nobel Prize Winner doing what he does best:

Obama’s Wars Murder Noncombatant Men, Women and Children

April 08, 2015

In the 1960s, Vietnam war protesters chanted “Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”

Obama way exceeds his ruthlessness – murdering and maiming noncombatants in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Donbass, Palestinians complicit with Israel and now Yemen.

Who’s next? Everywhere he shows up, mass slaughter and destruction follow. So does horrific human suffering words can’t explain.

Make no mistake. Yemen is Obama’s war. Months of preparation preceded hostilities. Detailed planning chose targets now terror-bombed.

Saudi-led forces are US proxies, serving American regional interests over the corpses of likely many thousands before conflict ends.

Neocon lunatics in Washington consider it a small price to pay. International law calls it the highest of high crimes.

Conditions in Yemen for many were desperate before fighting began. Now they’re catastrophic for many millions.

In more normal times, Oxfam estimates around 16 million Yemenis dependent on humanitarian aid to survive.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-wars-murder-noncombatant-men-women-a...

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:47 | 5970650 Surging Chaos
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Just think, Sweden will probably get stuck again having to accept all the refugees/asylum seekers that flee Yemen. Just like what happened with Syria two years ago and with pretty much every third world country the US has destabilized.

If you want multiculturalism, start a bunch of wars and you'll get it in spades.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:51 | 5970671 Ghordius
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Sweden? you mean the same country that angers Israel so much? while being very, very angry at Russia, at the moment? that Sweden?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:36 | 5970606 czarangelus
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The Iranian conspiracy version of a false flag? They must be feeling pretty confident in their infantry forces to pull a stunt like this any way you slice it, and it's not as if they don't have a lot of experience dealing with US weapons systems; they've faced off against them for decades in Lebanon and Syria.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:43 | 5970622 kato
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George Bush truly opened the gates of hell on earth, him wanting to go finish his dadda's war. Bush claims to have read Churchill - and all he ever really did was look at the pictures in CHurchill's "Painint for a Pastime" - IF he had read Churchill he would never, ever have gone to war in Iraq.

Churchill called the Chamberlin family of the UK - there were plenty of others before Neville - "a mistake" and that it would have been "better had they [Chamberlains] never been born". And so it is with the Bush family - better if they had never been born. The first one was a wimp, an oportunist. The rest of the family got into Andover - legacy piece of shit that school became - Exeter is far, far superior - they got into Andover with connections and legacy and yada yada and what did they do but play cheerleader (George - he never really stopped, he just needs someoen to tell him what the cause is) and the next guy in line a reckless loser who would have been kicked out except for the family pulling weight at the school - and now this one wants to be president. Please. That alcoholic wanna be Ron Paul has some intellect compared to that family.

The gates of hell on earth. I said back then that he should have cozied up to Sadaam - let the Iraq and Iran keep the balance. Insteat, that stupid George Bush The Most Idiot went to war, killed American lives (it was not worth one, according to one wise veteran), spent trillions so that Iran could play regional kingpin and have a Persian Empire, all the while, Syria burns and refugees starve. Great family. Just go away, please, there will be no America left after you.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:50 | 5970664 Falconsixone
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So the smiley face presidents do run things!

 

Speaking of reading.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:06 | 5970722 kato
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for a start try Martin Gilbert's 'Churchill War Papers' volumes 1-3; Jock Colville diaries tell a lot too. and may others. cover to cover, these I know...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:58 | 5970708 BigJim
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Bush' fault!

I susppose you blame a puppet when it's being 'clumsy' too.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 15:44 | 5972430 Grimaldus
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Hey Kato, did Hillary Clinton not destroy Libya and Syria?

Or are you some kind of progressive obombatron assclown?

By the way, Bush is a progressive, just like obombya, Hillary and you.

Embrace your progressive warmongering suck dude.

Yeah, the progressive stupid, it burns.

Grimaldus

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:41 | 5970626 henry chucho
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The plundered Yemeni gold is now being transfered from American aircraft carriers,to Iranian battle ships,as a down payment for arming the Houthi rebels..

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:42 | 5970629 pupdog1
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The Alborz destroyer shown here in a Feb. 21, 2010 file photo.

That's a destroyer??

I hope they didn't use up all their box tops.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:17 | 5970818 MrSteve
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How dare you insult the Iranian flotilla! also referred to as a fleet. It is only one vessel shy of being an armada!!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:42 | 5970630 Falconsixone
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Are the carriers stopped in a radiation cloud yet?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:42 | 5970631 kchrisc
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Someone needs to warn the Iranians that they are being setup. Maybe not near Yemen, or today, but then one day soon the Dancing Mossads will have their command performance. This time it will probably be a DC US ship/carrier.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Some bad Majumba is a brewing.

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 15:29 | 5972337 Flagit
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I think they have been wise to that game since 1953.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:43 | 5970636 laomei
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surface fleets are pointless.  subs are what sink carriers.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:52 | 5970675 inevitablecollapse
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i'm sure at least one (if not all three) russian sourced iranian kilo subs are joined in on the party...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:39 | 5970968 Arnold
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The whales will save us.

Quid pro quo.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:05 | 5970757 NoWayJose
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The problem today is that missiles can be launched against a carrier from anywhere on land, from just about any ship, and just about from a small fishing boat! The fun for the carrier is that they get to operate in crowded shipping lanes without much room to maneuver.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:07 | 5970766 Omega_Man
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why is that a problem? if one carrier gets a licking then maybe they will go home where they belong

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:23 | 5970854 Arnold
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If Our Carrier even gets scratched, there will be pogroms.

#youwerebegging4it

followed by: #howzitlivinunderglas.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:10 | 5971486 laomei
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well of course.  carriers, f22s, boomers and b2s are garage queens.  they are not intended for actual combat, they are not considered losable assets in any scenario.  the loss of even one would result in 90% of the nation demanding a nuclear response... it's a fucking joke.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:05 | 5971135 Ex-MislTech
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As one who was among it, they don't sit right in the shipping lane, and

support ships cover them along with air cover, and sub cover.

 

Also some special satellites are keeping an eye out for any sneaky petes.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:36 | 5970939 kchrisc
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Now days it is believed that carriers are obsolete because of supersonic cruise missiles.

And a "pop-and-drop" missile armed with even a small tactical nuke would end a carrier's day pretty quick like.

The banksters need to repay us.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:08 | 5971148 BustainMovealota
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Multi-beam, High intensity, Low orbit, Geo- sync, Laser.  (MHLGL) is what sinks carriers (and any ship for that matter).

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:40 | 5971315 woolly mammoth
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I wonder if any country that can swipe Drones out of the sky can also swipe Muli-beam, High intensity, Low orbit, Geo-sync, Lasers out of the sky as well?

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 03:20 | 5974373 Proofreder
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Do they still make Exocet Missiles ???

Seems they worked well in the Falkland islands.

Is there a more modern replacement with a bigger bang ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZu8bvxJs4

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:47 | 5970649 ekm1
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Khamenei is being lured into wars it cannot afford.

Our number 1 ally, Saudi Arabia needs help and is receiving help.

 

Khamenei is depleting Iran's economy.

Pentagon - Saudi alliance is going to win. The goal is control of oil supplies from middle east.

 

Soon, US Military complex will re-gain control of federal reserve from bank lobby, an as it was the case from 1960 till 1990.

Bank lobby is on its way to capitulation to military complex.

 

And of course, that is all just my view.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:56 | 5970691 czarangelus
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All wars are ground wars, and the US hasn't won a ground war since... WWII. The Shia can endure a lot more casualties than the effete and faggy Sauds or the fat, loutish Americans. There will be an Iranian flag over Mecca 5 years after they try this shit.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:10 | 5970780 IridiumRebel
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The Russians won WWII.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:32 | 5970910 PresidentCamacho
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If by winning you mean using their bodies strategically to make the germans run out of bullets and tactical retreat to make them spread thin and use their fuel. Then yes, the Russians did alot of damage to the Germans. A painful ultra high casualty war that would have soviet russia behind on human capital then and continuing to this day.

Winning by attrition is no way to win.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:35 | 5970932 IridiumRebel
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The Russian West and winter helped in the attrition. It is what it is.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:26 | 5970872 Ex-MislTech
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Technically the russians won the ground war in WW2, though the tank

they were driving was designed by an american who was turned down by the US, lol.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:08 | 5971150 LawsofPhysics
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Bullshit.  You've been saying this for several years now.  You have no credibility.  Show me Jamie's head on a fucking pike and then you might have some credibility troll.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:53 | 5971720 Max Steel
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ENOUGH WITH YOUR CLAPTRAP .

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:56 | 5971721 Max Steel
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ekm stop it .

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:48 | 5970657 Omega_Man
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Iran should deploy troops in Aden...... then if US attacks them... who is the bad guy then?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:02 | 5970734 NoWayJose
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And then claim they are there for 'humanitarian' reasons!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:49 | 5970663 vegas
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This isn't about "starting something" with the US Navy; it's about watching Emperor Goebbels "blink" and be the total pussy he is. The Iranians know how weak he is and want to push a little sand around the sandbox. In the end, short of a direct attack, the US is impotent and the Iranians know it.

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:50 | 5970667 Omega_Man
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be sweet if Iran and houties attacked Saudi together.... who needs house of saud anyway? 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:53 | 5970684 Omega_Man
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Yemen has no oil... we need Saudi to burn to get the oil price up. 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 10:58 | 5970709 Fix It Again Timmy
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Man, $500 million doesn't buy a lot of boy toys by the looks of it...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:00 | 5970724 Omega_Man
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well it's in US dollars and US defense contractors after all

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:46 | 5971018 grunk
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4 crop dusters?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:01 | 5970728 Omega_Man
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House of Saud is just a rich ISIS, what's the difference? need to merge the two

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:02 | 5970737 wrs1
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As gold sinks like a stone to 1200 and below......................

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:08 | 5970772 IridiumRebel
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It'll be 1200 as long as CPUs run shit. Go buy some AMZN.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:32 | 5970908 Ex-MislTech
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Ya gold is held down by them printing dollars to short gold.

 

Its a total racket just like that one guy exposed JPM doing it to silver

and they tried to run him off the road in the UK.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Maguire_%28whistleblower%29

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:03 | 5970745 Omega_Man
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Iran should ignore the US and do beach landings in Yemen... and say they are fighting al queda there.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:06 | 5970759 mrdenis
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 Now don't worry, Commodore. The Bedford'll never fire first. But if he fires one, I'll fire one.

 [launching the rocket] Fire One!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:06 | 5970761 IridiumRebel
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Wait, but we are BFFs now! They should BBQ with each other and trade Hal-al recipes and shit.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:10 | 5970778 Omega_Man
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These weapon deliveries to Israel and Saudi after just a few weeks of war really shows that when the big one comes supply lines won't hold and both of these pussy states will be helpless after their munitions run out. 

Then they will be over run, along with all the spread out US bases... can you say broken arrow?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:15 | 5970802 Omega_Man
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I wonder how many Iranian subs are nearby with their diesel engines turned off... just floating around, totally undetectable 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:23 | 5970856 SnatchnGrab
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No offense, but if you think subs are undetectable, you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer. 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:37 | 5970953 Seek_Truth
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When you point a finger, you've got three pointing back at you:

http://www.defensereview.com/russian-novorossiysk-diesel-electric-silent...

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:04 | 5971132 Winston of Oceania
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While they may be silent they are not invisible and the occasional "ping" still works wonders... Dipshit.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:01 | 5971787 Max Steel
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Adding to your points . Here is one more . Portugal sub emptied all its missiles and annihiliated US carrier .

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.passarodeferro.com%2F...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:17 | 5971201 Ex-MislTech
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The modern sub hulls have acoustic absorbtion properties.

 

Active sonar actually works not as well as passive in some regards now.

 

One might say the satellite detection methods and drop bouys are

the better bet at this point for sub detection ops.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:48 | 5972115 Bunghole
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You still believe that shit Hollywood sells you?

Ever served on a SSBN or did you just stay in a Holiday Inn Express?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:15 | 5971187 Ex-MislTech
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New satellite submarine detection systems article from 4 yrs ago.

 

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LE13Ad01.html

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:30 | 5970835 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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I wouldn't make too much of this movement. 2 words, Camp Lemonnier. The straight has 2 sides. Yemen only gets interesting if it spills out of Yemen to the other side of the straight into Djibouti and by extension most likely Somalia (remember we are involved in a global war of propaganda with terror being one form of it and it is election season) and/or into Saudi Arabia.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:20 | 5970837 I Write Code
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That's so sweet, I'll bet they get together evenings and share plate of hummus.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:24 | 5971550 Albertarocks
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Jesus Christ... I read your comment as "I'll bet they get together evenings and share a plate of humans".  And then I thought... "yeah, maybe that's what he meant."   These selfish greedy war mongers are truly inhuman.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:22 | 5970847 grunk
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Are the U.S. military and Obama on the same page?

p.s. Send more pickles.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:24 | 5970860 BullyBearish
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Make sure your SCO has a stop because when the Israeli's start the ball rolling, crude will skyrocket

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:44 | 5971006 Chumly
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And "poof" goes the world economy currently barely hanging on by a short hair. The inflation-deflation-stagflation divergence will be so profound we may finally see true civil unrest in "stable" Western countries.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:01 | 5971115 Winston of Oceania
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There is such a glut of oil that I doubt a six month closure would do much at all after the shock wore off, two or three days at the most.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:36 | 5971616 Omega_Man
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yes be nice to see israel actually do something instead of talking shit. 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:48 | 5971694 Mister Delicious
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well, the israelis have had no problem killing americans to blame muslims in the past. Odd that Iran has never heard of the Liberty.

Syurely they are aware of the Zionist love of the big lie, and the big kill..

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_israel_lies_20140803

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/03/israel-genocide-and-the-lo...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/wrong-about-iraq-wrong-ab...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 22:45 | 5973888 falconflight
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Wow, your academic sources are so USA Today

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:23 | 5971919 MrSteve
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Stockcharts shows SCO is up 9.91% on April 8, just sayin'. That's 5 years of dividends on the SPX.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:26 | 5970880 SnatchnGrab
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I have to laugh at this posturing by the Iranians. Don't make the mistake of believing the "mettle" shown by our CiC (none) is the same as the folks in the Navy. RoE aside, get too close and the Iranians will be at the un whining about "American aggression". 

Oh, you may damage a ship or two, you may cause some casualties, but the repercussions and response will not be Marquis of Queensbury like.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:28 | 5970891 NoWayJose
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Wanna bet there is either Chinese or Russian sig-int specialists and equipment on board one of those ships?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:35 | 5971606 Omega_Man
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yes with their recorders, recording all this great data on US and Saudi ships... all for the programmable torpedos 

hehehehehe

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:29 | 5970895 Mr T
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almost immediatelyy after winning Peace prize obama white house began cobbling together a record Saudi arms purchase of 60 Billion dollars. Ironically it was released right around 9 11 2010 where it flew through congress. we are seeing the fruits now. perhaps rather than make it look too easy we "abandoned" 500 million. all hail the M&I. 

Public Service Announcement:

You are ruled by Sodimites and Psychopaths. Please stop giving them money.   

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:38 | 5970963 Pliskin
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How dare those Iranians park their boats in U.S. waters, the sheer cheek of them!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:39 | 5970965 shovelhead
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The Facepalm President embarks on a new Middle-East Peace Mission...

Which looks like Chief Wiggims on patrol with Nelson following behind.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:40 | 5970974 roadhazard
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I love it. Iran= lol

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:54 | 5971053 Emergency Ward
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...and here I thought that John Kerry had French-kissed the Iranians into submission!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:40 | 5970977 anonymice
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You're telling me two (2) US Navy aircraft carriers are patrolling the Persian Gulf, and it's Iran which has entered a hornets nest? 

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:20 | 5971899 clawsthatscratch
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make that 2 carrier groups, lots of escorts and about 6 subs maybe.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:54 | 5971054 Equality 7-25-1
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=> Joint manoeuvers to convince the sheep to fork over moar money

=> Russian "advisors" inside

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 11:57 | 5971087 Winston of Oceania
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Hornets nest? The Hornet is a museum and doesn't even have a nest in the ME, let's do keep up. As I may have mentioned from time to time you can take out one or two CV's but we have enough to more than answer the folley with DEADLY force that will overwhelm the aggressor.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:05 | 5971137 john milton
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false fags in swimsuits

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:06 | 5971140 LawsofPhysics
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Halliburton needs to turn a profit, break some windows boys!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:14 | 5971180 Hubbs
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Hmm, I'd sure like the Cessna Caravan. Start a local transport business in Philippines.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:14 | 5971183 Anunnaki
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Mr. Nobel Prize has the gall to blame the Houthis for not wanting to be droned to bugsplat.

Worst. President. Ever.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 18:11 | 5973061 thecrud
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Long as I am rich and stock has never been higher.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:21 | 5971191 surfvin
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When they say pirates I think that's exactly what they mean.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:24 | 5971230 Ex-MislTech
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Yeah if we could get the banksters to accessorize with a eye patch and parrot

maybe the sheeple would get it, lol.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:25 | 5971238 pipes
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Vinson, eh?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:34 | 5971281 Prober
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iranian islamic cult jihad is convert to islam or die

USA policy should be ALL iranian ships must stay in port or get used for target practice

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:40 | 5971305 Monty Burns
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"USA policy should be ALL iranian ships must stay in port or get used for target practice."

So what would you say if the Russians made the same offer to, say, Saudi Arabia?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:46 | 5971680 Prober
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Saudis are MAJOR promoters of the jihadist islamic cult, therefore

My policy would be to take over saudi territory, eradicate ALL the islamic cult worshipers, destroy all the islamic cult shrines, and share the oil & gas resources with only the civilized humans.

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 18:09 | 5973056 thecrud
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The Russians would get their asses kicked just like the last time they fucked around in the middle east.

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:12 | 5971495 Anunnaki
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I'm surprised Lurch Kerry hasn't issued an ultimatum on behalf of President Peace Prize of this very thing.

How dare Iran even flex an eyelash while Obunghole's Saudi sheikhs bomb refugee camps and dairy farmers with American weapons.

Drones aren't dramatic enough for this Obama sponsored genocide. If it bleeds it leads.

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:50 | 5971701 Mister Delicious
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No, it isn't - particularly not Shia Islam.

Wahhabism, sure.

But that's the Saudis.

Currently supporting ISIS in Syria and Al Qaeda in Yemen.

along with the US and Israel.

You don't read very much do you, outside your pro-Israel rags, I mean....

here's a start: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_israel_lies_20140803

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:50 | 5972124 Prober
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I don't care what the israelis think, say or do, they are not trying to force me to be a jew or threatening to kill me if I don't convert,

BUT the islamic cult worshipers ARE

THEREFORE policy should be to eradicate the islamic cult

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 16:31 | 5972646 tony wilson and...
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poor prober dem musselims are big and strong and day bullying the little prober thing.

trying to turn the innocent israelite

prober the anne frank of the hege someone please help him

 

write a kosher book of talmoo lies

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 18:34 | 5973130 Prober
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You have a chronic acute case of jew-phobia.

I can compete with the jews very effectively, but you obviously cannot and therefore are overwhlemed by their superiority to you, and fearful of them, blaming them for your inadequacy and failures, obviously you are mentally retarded and have tiny balls and a limp dick.

Blaming jews for your inadequacies and failures won't help you.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 20:07 | 5973439 tony wilson and...
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far from it dear boy

i make love to jewish woman i amke love with passion

not hate

they love the extra level they can get from my fore skin friction.

i do not like the men but the jewish woman it gives me joy to turn them away from satan : )

prober even if you are an ugly lileth i will nail you hard to the wall me darlin with love

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 20:45 | 5973548 Prober
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ahhhh, you are an islamic cult worshiping vermin !

what faction and tribe ???

please wear an orange dot on your head so you can be clearly identified for proper disposition :-))

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 22:28 | 5973836 pupdog1
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They do a pretty fucking chosen superior job of cashing our three billion dollar welfare check every year.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 22:41 | 5973875 falconflight
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You mean the kickback payment to buy US military equipment?  Do you include the 30 plus billion to Egypt and a couple of billion to AraFart and Co.?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 23:12 | 5973981 Prober
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Yes, they do, but you must blame the American christians far more than the jews for this because the christian zionist lobby is MUCH MUCH MUCH larger and more powerful than the jewish zionist lobby - the christians want the mythological fable of the reunion with their mythological messiah to happen, which according to their fables requires the state of "israel" to be recreated.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 23:19 | 5974005 dsty
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thanks for your mythological opinion

big surprise waits for you.

u not b happy

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:36 | 5971287 Monty Burns
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Hey! Only Murka can do provocative stuff like that.  Bomb Iran now I say!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:45 | 5971347 newsoutlet
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criminal putin regime insanity has reached new record - now information censorship demands even to physically cut out article from 50 000 newspapers so that truth doesn't come out about war in Ukraine:


“Stranger things have happened” Journalists literally cut an article out of their newspaper about a Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/04/08/stranger-things-have-happened

 

 

In early April, the newspaper Novaya Buryatia, a regional publication in Russia’s south-central Siberia, published an article on its website about the Buryat soldier, a member of the Russian military who was wounded in Ukraine. His interview had been published in Russia a month before. The publication in Novaya Buryatia got a lot of attention from readers, who started a heated argument in the “comments” section on the website. Wishing to avoid being drawn into in an “information war,” the editors decided to delete the article not only from the website, but also from the already-printed 50 thousand copies of the newspaper. The editing was carried out using scissors, and the article was literally cut out from every one of the 50 thousand printed copies. It took the journalists 72 hours to complete the task. Timur Dugarzhapov, the acting chief editor of Novaya Buryatia, spoke to Radio Liberty Russia and explained why he does not think the incident can be classified as censorship, and how the article stirred up a controversy in “quiet and calm” Buryatia region.

In the article published by Novaya Buryatia, titled “Buryat tank driver from Debaltseve still in critical condition,” appeared online on the morning of April 3. The article quoted the mother of the tank driver, who explained that her son Dorzhi Batomunkuyev, a contract soldier with the Russian army, did not get any aide from the government and is still in critical condition after sustaining injuries. She also refuted some of the facts stated in her son’s interview with Novaya Gazeta a month before, and said that Batomunkuyev never spoke to journalists. The article has been deleted from the website, but the cached version of the page can still be accessed.

 

Timur Dugarzhapov , the editor of Novaya Buryatia, does not see anything out of the ordinary in the deletion of the article about the contract soldier who, according to Novaya Gazeta, had been fighting on the side of the rebels in the separatist eastern territories of Ukraine. The editor says that the process of cutting an article out from printed papers by hand is “an amusing story” and that the media are making a big deal out of “literally nothing.” Dugarzhapov explained that the article seemed perfectly ordinary to him at first, but then he began to doubt it.

 

The heated debates sparked by the article scared the editors of the paper. The chief editor explained that this was unusual for Buryatia, which is such a “quiet and calm” region. Dugarzhapov said the comments made him realize that his newspaper had entered the waters of an “intense information confrontation,” something the editorial board had not meant to do. There was not outside pressure to take down the publication, he said.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:52 | 5971393 litemine
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Why not just post CNN and FOX News Links. 

It's just too bad that Reporters and Companies can knowingly state LIES as News and then they can direct money flows......

Isn't that False Advertising?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 22:32 | 5973848 falconflight
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Indeed, Counterpunch, Gordon Duff, David Duke, and telegraphing Herman Goering is so 'fair and balanced.'

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:49 | 5971370 john milton
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iranian magrav class flotilla will eat your carriers for breakfast;)))

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:50 | 5971374 newsoutlet
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putin regime propaganda machine is scared from truth:

The moment Valentina Lisitsa says she supported Euromaidan Russia's RT immediately "loses" her signal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ZiFErxRMg&feature=youtu.be&t=8m39s

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:47 | 5971686 libertysghost
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Did you not listen to the whole interview?  It's pretty clear what she was saying...deliberately cutting that off makes no sense.  You can tell she is going to say..."I was excited at getting rid of the old oligarchs..."  BUT that's not what has happened, she was going on, and now the undemocratic overthrow of the government has installed a pro-western junta that is killing its own people.

 

Nice try but no one here is falling for your edited clip.  It started at the end of the signal when I clicked...not at the beginning, because you didn't want people to listen to it all I suppose.  So you're the propangandist too...

which we already know.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:51 | 5971710 Mister Delicious
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you and your constant threadjacking suck.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:51 | 5971383 Werekoala
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Iran has 34 fleets?!?!!? We've only got 6!

 

MOAR DEFENSE SPENDING!

 

Thanks, Obama!

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 12:59 | 5971425 Jacksons Ghost
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34th Fleet? Since when, Xerxes?

Salamis straits, the Greeks wiped them off the sea too.

Iran(Persia) has not been a naval power since.

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 06:57 | 5974552 Escapedgoat
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And Xerxes Fleet was mostly comprised by GREEK Ship and man power.

It just happened that ONLY ATHENS  had invested in the Military Version of the Trieris.

It just happened that the Athenians were probing the Asia Minor coast for weakness to help their own version of Greeks, their Ionian brethren, instead of the Dorian Spartan versions.

Big Difference.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:00 | 5971435 Tachyon5321
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Obama likes having his nose up the Iran's b-hole...

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:11 | 5971491 PoasterToaster
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Baby Boomer Neo Cons presiding over the demise of US status in the world.  Fucking sell outs.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:15 | 5971510 Anunnaki
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So when do the HOuthis and other Yemenis start taking this to the streets of Riyadh. A little payback at the Rolls Royce dealership and various shopping malls.

You know the Sauds don't have it in them to actually fight. That's what their Arab niggers in Egypt are for.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:18 | 5971520 surfvin
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What role doth London and Langley play in Islamic fascism? Do a little research before you answer.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:38 | 5971629 Professorlocknload
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Where do headlines like this originate? How do they even get this far into the light?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 13:47 | 5971685 bid the soldier...
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Off topic

The North American Aerospace Defense command (NORAD) is planning to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era bunker in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

 http://sputniknews.com/news/20150408/1020622962.html#ixzz3WjzNr2IS

Maybe there's more to Khibiny than is reported in the NYT and Wapo.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:10 | 5971841 Mister Delicious
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seems like a dumb move, an invitation to have the Americans or Israelis shoot at an American ship and blame them.

Remember this one?

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/07/31/26940/cheney-proposal-for-i...

I take issue only with the idea that in ANY way Al Qaeda benefiting from US action is ironic. It is absolutely deliberate.

As is the success of ISIS, Inc. As brought to you by SITE intelligence and the neocon deep state.

for fuck's sake, that ISIS is a proxy for the US and Saudis could not be more obvious.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 22:49 | 5973838 falconflight
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Bwaaaaa, thinkprogress; Moooo!, Bwaaaaaa, Meow!

 

George Soros org.

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:18 | 5971889 SmittyinLA
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USS Cole less than flat learning curve 

BTW this is treason

Dont let people park their boats near your warships (bad warcraft)

 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:21 | 5971907 rsnoble
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LOL, less than middle class in the US own fishing boats bigger than that Alborz.  

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 14:43 | 5972066 Charming Anarchist
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I believe this is the year the world discovers that passports are not only water-proof but they float to the surface emitting natural fluorescence. 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 15:02 | 5972183 reTARD
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"Not yet delivered" really should be not yet "lost."

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 16:09 | 5972552 jldpc
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If the Iranian 34th Fleet has a supply ship and a WWI era Destroyer soon to be on station; what do the other 33 fleets have? Are there really 33 other fleets? Or is this just more poppycock from Iran? And do they have aircover? Hmmn. Interesting. And the destroyer has a weapon and fire control system to hit what on land? or on the sea? With what range? With spotters on land? And hgow do the ydefend against Saudi air power? Or is this a suicide mission? Against whom?

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 17:33 | 5972901 Mr T
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db. 

Wed, 04/08/2015 - 17:32 | 5972902 Mr T
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Poppycock? Poppycock? WTF? Whom has IRAN attacked in the last say i dont know 100 year?. hows that? Or is it Who? How to defend... hmmmm that is the question. 

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