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Fast-Roping 101
« on: June 03, 2010, 06:14:05 PM »
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Courtesy of:
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2010/06/fast-roping-101.html

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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 06:20:12 PM »
I haven't laughed that hard in a while.  :laugh: =D

Reminds me of the saying "It is generally inadvisable to bail out over the area you just bombed."  :laugh:
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2010, 06:28:36 PM »
I have to admire the testicular construction of the IDF grunts who, armed with a paint ball gun and a pistol, fast roped onto a ship loaded with armed goons.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2010, 10:40:57 AM »
LMAO on the fast Rope 101! 

I don't know if I admire them or think they need to talk a mental health professional.  Either way, it was a heck of a thing to do.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2010, 10:46:58 AM »
Is there some real-life event that inspired this?
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2010, 10:52:32 AM »
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2010, 01:14:00 PM »
 :lol:
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2010, 03:55:18 PM »
Anyone else get a chuckle that the ship was named the Rachel Corrie ....

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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2010, 04:00:54 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on June 04, 2010, 03:55:18 PM
Anyone else get a chuckle that the ship was named the Rachel Corrie ....


Holy St. Pancake, Batman!
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2010, 04:09:50 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on June 04, 2010, 03:55:18 PM
Anyone else get a chuckle that the ship was named the Rachel Corrie ....



I believe that's the NEXT ship trying to beak the blockade.

Personally, I am COMPLETELY opposed to the Israelis boarding these ships. It's inhumane and totally unneccesary.





Just sink them.


After a while, ship owners won't let people try to run the blockade.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2010, 01:27:56 AM »
Good old Bibi and his gangster Foreign Minister (literally - a "nightclub" owner from Moldova) at it again. 

I love this, they managed to outrage the planet by gunning down the passengers on food ships, and this is celebrated by Israel supporters as showing toughness. 

It would be interesting to find out if any of the people who fast-roped onto the vessels were in the same units that ran screaming for their lives from a bunch of Lebanese villagers in the brilliant post-war "secret mission".
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2010, 01:35:01 AM »
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...by gunning down the passengers on food ships, and this is celebrated by Israel supporters as showing toughness.

Have you seen any of the video on this, or just read the New York Times?
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2010, 01:42:18 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on June 05, 2010, 01:35:01 AM
Have you seen any of the video on this, or just read the New York Times?

Yes, I saw the Israeli-approved video (that's most of what came out - you do realise Israel is enforcing a censorship order at the moment and has confiscated all video and camera equipment from the vessels, right?) and also read the accounts of the Aussie reporters who were assaulted in the course of the raids.

Question: Why did Israel impose a censorship order, banning people from releasing any video or reports about this without military approval, if it was so obviously self-defense?
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2010, 02:11:49 AM »
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I love this, they managed to outrage the planet by gunning down the passengers on food ships, and this is celebrated by Israel supporters as showing toughness. 

Don't be a pinhead.  My post & image were both in humor and a criticism.

Some of their supporters (namely me) are quite disappointed in the execution of the operation. 

I figure that the Israelis will be accused of atrocity whatever they do, so they ought to do what inspires fear and doubt in their opponents.  Sink the boat, set it afire, the Rainbow Warrior treatment, whatever(0).  It will also give the howling fools something real to howl about, rather than the usual Pali fiction like, say, Jenin.

Also, only 9 killed?  A pretty good sign, given the numbers aboard and their reactions, that the Izzies were using kid gloves.  One frag in that mob would have killed as many or more than that.  Were I in that helo, looking down at those jackals, I'd have dropped my load-out of frags to clear the deck before letting any of my men fast rope on to the ship.





(0)  I'd be partial to sinking it far out at sea.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2010, 07:46:51 PM »
Please tell me no one expected any less from ShootinStudent?
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2010, 05:03:57 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on June 05, 2010, 07:46:51 PM
Please tell me no one expected any less from ShootinStudent?

AHA !!  Didn't recognize him with the new moniker.....
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2010, 07:28:46 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on June 05, 2010, 02:11:49 AM
Don't be a pinhead.  My post & image were both in humor and a criticism.

Some of their supporters (namely me) are quite disappointed in the execution of the operation.  

I figure that the Israelis will be accused of atrocity whatever they do, so they ought to do what inspires fear and doubt in their opponents.  Sink the boat, set it afire, the Rainbow Warrior treatment, whatever(0).  It will also give the howling fools something real to howl about, rather than the usual Pali fiction like, say, Jenin.

Also, only 9 killed?  A pretty good sign, given the numbers aboard and their reactions, that the Izzies were using kid gloves.  One frag in that mob would have killed as many or more than that.  Were I in that helo, looking down at those jackals, I'd have dropped my load-out of frags to clear the deck before letting any of my men fast rope on to the ship.





(0)  I'd be partial to sinking it far out at sea.
I think that highlighted portion is exactly the truth.  Everyone loves to kick the US if we screw up, but many seem to take a lot of joy in doing it to Israel even more (whether they actually screwed up or not).
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2010, 11:05:47 PM »
Anti-semitism is still alive and kicking, and doing so in countries I thought would have learned something after WWII and the Holocaust. It's surprising to see it so blatant in the Democrat party, though.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2010, 11:26:31 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on June 06, 2010, 11:05:47 PM
Anti-semitism is still alive and kicking, and doing so in countries I thought would have learned something after WWII and the Holocaust. It's surprising to see it so blatant in the Democrat party, though.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2010, 08:50:00 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on June 06, 2010, 11:05:47 PM
Anti-semitism is still alive and kicking, and doing so in countries I thought would have learned something after WWII and the Holocaust. It's surprising to see it so blatant in the Democrat party, though.

Well, it was the Dems & Kluxers who made the most hay about Jews back in the day. 
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2010, 09:12:24 AM »
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I believe that's the NEXT ship trying to beak the blockade.

You're late.

Rachel Corrie is safely in Ashdod Harbor in the care of our Navy.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2010, 09:41:27 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on June 07, 2010, 09:12:24 AM
You're late.

Rachel Corrie is safely in Ashdod Harbor in the care of our Navy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/05/israel-rachel-corrie-gaza-ship

I wasn't at the time I posted that. (i.e. June 4) ;)
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2010, 10:03:59 AM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/06/gaza-blockade-iran-aid-convoy
Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy
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« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2010, 10:21:17 AM »
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Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy

Yeah, because radical Islam has nothing to do with the "humanitarian" convoys.

Obama and the European countries who are letting Israel twist in the wind had better get their acts together. An Israeli/Iranian war will tank all of the fragile western economies.
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Re: Fast-Roping 101
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2010, 12:15:53 PM »
Quote from: De Selby on June 05, 2010, 01:42:18 AM
Question: Why did Israel impose a censorship order, banning people from releasing any video or reports about this without military approval, if it was so obviously self-defense?

Because the people in question love to only release doctored footage that supports their cause.  It's amazing what you can do with just showing selective portions.
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