Posted by Ir@qi (65.35.186.56) on November 18, 2001 at 16:33:17:
It looks like the US Navy sank another civilian Iraqi ship today.
This is not the first time the US Navy board an Iraqi ship, and soon after they leave, it sinks down, I remember at least 3 previous similar incidents. In one of them they claimed that the Iraqi ship sank shortly after they left it because of the weather and the high sea, when actually Al-Jazzera reported that the weather was calm, and the pictures of the sinking ship supported that there was no bad weather. The pathological liars tried again today to use the weather lie (G. Rice), as if the weather don't go bad until these Pirates go on board the Iraqi ship.
What would the US say if Iraq started boarding and sinking US, civilian ships, and oil tankers, wouldn't they call this terrorism ? Didn't they call the mining of the shipping lanes of the Oil tankers in the Gulf by Iran terrorism ?
It is this type of actions, the killing of defenseless Iraqis and Palestinians, which is pushing many people in the Middle East to become radical, since they do not have military ships, and F16, and B52 bombers, they end using criminal terrorism.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011118/ts/us_iraqi_tanker.html