Accident required

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (Mikey) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:42:56 GMT

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/chinese-troops-are-on-the-streets-of-zimbabwean-city-witnesses-say-811796.html

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (MSR) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:49:38 GMT

An additional thought is that it would be far better for this shipment, and for Mugabe's regime, to fail in a very public fashion and for that downfall to be brought about by organisations such as human rights activists and worker's unions with a conscience for the same reasons that I'm against suppressing the right of extreme organisations in the UK to demonstrate on the streets. If Oswald Mosely's brown shirts had been banned from marching, they never would have been put...

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (MSR) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:41:21 GMT

I vaguely recall experiments by a Yank boffin during the Pacific War that aimed to create artificial tsunami as a way of clearing the coasts of small islands preparatory to a landing. Didn't work, but perhaps we should be relieved that it didn't. Naturally occurring freak waves are enough of a problem, but to have the dark suspicion that some foreign power engineered a freak wave that just happened to intercept a ship carrying a few hundred tonnes of arms shipment from one unpopular...

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (Alexius55) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:42:37 GMT

Obi Wan Russell wrote:
Sink a cargo ship registered under the Chinese flag? Uh-oh....

Hence the use of the terms 'Accident' and 'sink for inexplicable reasons'. Cargo ships sink all the time due to poor maintenance, bad weather, navigational error. These things happen...

Bad weather or navigational error? When the ship's anchored in Durban Harbour? I think it would cause...

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (Obi Wan Russell) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:13:59 GMT

Sink a cargo ship registered under the Chinese flag? Uh-oh....

Hence the use of the terms 'Accident' and 'sink for inexplicable reasons'. Cargo ships sink all the time due to poor maintenance, bad weather, navigational error. These things happen...

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (shaun) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Sink a cargo ship registered under the Chinese flag? Uh-oh....

Re: Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (Obi Wan Russell) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:36:14 GMT

The dock workers in South Africa are showing more strength of character and backbone than Mugabe's boy toy Mbeki. The unofficial embargo on these weapons may be enough to tip the balance in Zimbabwe, but if any submarines are in the area and fancy a bit of target practice...

Accident required

feeds@yuku.com (Zen9) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:41:06 GMT

It would be perhaps of some relief for many citizens in Zimbabwe if a certain Chinese vessel off Durban where to say.....suddenly sink for inexplicable reasons.