Looks like we should send the US navy to Turkey to learn how to caputure
these boats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJsJ9lD29k8

It does show how really helpless a little boat really is. Sorry, they
didn't even shoot them.


"HK" wrote in message
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It remains one of the most intolerable and vile acts of terrorism on the
high seas. 1985: Four PLO hijackers seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro
off the coast of Egypt, demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel.
After Syria denied them permission to dock at the port of Tartus, the
terrorists executed a disabled Jewish American passenger named Leon
Klinghoffer, shooting him twice as he sat in his wheelchair. They dumped
his body and wheelchair overboard.

Egypt's president Mubarak then offered the hijackers safe passage by air
to their headquarters in Tunisia, but American warplanes forced the Boeing
737 to land at a NATO airbase on Sicily. Though a U.S. citizen has been
murdered, the Italian authorities refused to let Navy SEALs board the
terrorists' plane and apprehend the hijackers.

After a tense armed standoff between Italian Carbinieri and American
special forces lasting through the night, President Ronald Reagan ordered
U.S. troops to stand down. The Italians allowed Abu Abbas, the mastermind
of the hijacking, to escape to Yugoslavia. He remained free until his
capture in Iraq in 2003.

Remember this story when you hear Glenn Beck's minions bray about
conservative vigilance in the pursuit of murderous pirates.

--
Palin & Bachmann in 2012 -
All Stupidity All the Time