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'Parked Off of Egypt'

Steve

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news that you didn't hear....

Two Amphibious Assault Ships 'Parked Off of Egypt'

WASHINGTON -- As political unrest continues in post-coup Egypt, two amphibious assault ships have moved to the coast there, the commandant of the Marine Corps said Thursday.

The USS Kearsarge and the USS San Antonio “moved up into the Red Sea and parked off of Egypt,” a couple of nights ago, “because we don’t know what’s going to happen,”

The two ships are “there on purpose,” he said. “That’s the flexibility that in a response to a crisis we have to have.”

The two Virginia-based amphibious assault ships are “there on purpose,” Amos said.

and in other news.. Did someone forget to pay for the parking?

The Department of Defense plans to send four more F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in the coming weeks, according to US defense officials.
 

Steve

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or how some others are reporting it..

Obama turns the screws on Egyptian General al-Sisi – US Marines put on Alert – US Warships On-Station off Suez Canal!

For teaching the Egyptian generals a lesson, the administration resorted to tangible military steps: two amphibious assault ships carrying 2,600 Marines were moved to the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast.

Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, reported Thursday that the huge USS Kearsarge (1,800 Marines) and the USS San Antonio (with 800 Marines) had “moved up into the Red Sea and parked off Egypt,” a couple of nights ago, “because we don’t know what’s going to happen.”

The US has placed additional Marine units at Signonella base in southern Italy and Moron in Spain on the alert with orders to be ready to move at 60 minutes’ notice.

To calm the tension, the US Embassy in Egypt said on its website Saturday: “We deny false claims in the Egyptian press that US naval ships are in the vicinity of the Arabian Peninsula and the Suez Canal to militarily invade Egypt.”

According to sources, the US flotilla was brought in to warn Egyptian strongman Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his generals that if they took their persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood too far, American Marines stood ready to step in.

They are also on hand for two additional contingencies:

1. Should shipping through one of the world’s major world arteries, the Suez Canal, be imperiled – as in case of sabotage by the Muslim Brotherhood or the armed Salafists of Sinai, the US military would be there to take charge of securing international shipping in the waterway.

2. The US maintains 1,000 army personnel in Sinai, most members of the 1st Cavalry Division, as part of the multinational force which monitors the 1979 Egyptian-Israel peace treaty provisions. The Obama administration is keeping a close eye on the mounting Islamist violence in the peninsula and the Egyptian military campaign which was mounted, in close intelligence cooperation with Israel and the IDF, against two terrorist elements –the armed Salafist Bedouin associated with al Qaeda and the Palestinian Hamas of Gaza, whose operations have spilled out into Sinai.

just in case the Zimmerman riots are not enough of a distraction...

we have "parked two ships" with several thousand marines on standby..
 

Steve

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while I didn't post the story about the great satan parking it's ships there as well..

this one is still another take on it..

Obama Regime seething over Egypt-Israeli military cooperation

Washington is also highly displeased with the campaign the Egyptian army launched after the coup, with Israel’s active support, to root out the Islamist terror blighting the Sinai Peninsula

US warships and marines are now parked off Egypt’s Red sea coast as a deterrent to the generals in Cairo.
For whipping Israeli into line, the administration used another method, i.e., Pentagon leaks naming Israeli air strikes as responsible for the explosions at the Syrian weapons depot outside the port town of Latakia on July 5, which demolished a fresh stock of Russian Yakhont (NATO codenamed SS-N-26) shore-to-ship missiles along with their advanced radar. Israel declined to comment on the report.

yet we are still preparing to ship them 4 fighter jets..

is Obama mad? or stark raving inept?
 

iwannabeacowboy

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at this point, maybe I'm okay with it. If Egyptian generals will use them to fight Hamas, great send 4 more. All we're doing is arming terrorists and burning true allies.

I want my government back. It is past time.

We need our military to get a backbone here.

Hold some home town investigations into these frauds in town squares. The snakes couldn't get out of the brush fire quick enough.
 

Steve

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We need our military to get a backbone here.

by law our military is not allowed to have a backbone..

many of the Generals and Admirals who did have a backbone were brought up on phoney charges and even though they were cleared,... they were still forced to retire...

leaving the hand picked replacements who will tow the party line ...

so until the lack of leadership in DC changes,.. there is little the military can do legally...
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Well, since the 3 branches have decided to act illegally and not follow the constitution, the military defending the us citizens against enemy combatants would be constitutional and a legal case could be made. To sit and watch this place burn because we're afraid to do something isn't cutting it.

Our property is no longer our property, business are no longer allowed to trade freely, voter fraud and election fraud is rampant- at this point it is no longer a government of the people, the press is no longer free as demonstrated by this administration, irs is persecuting those upholding the constitution and Christianity, kids are not allowed to practice their religion unless it agrees with popular thought of the communist government, terrorists have breached the governmental ranks, we are forced to pay for the lazy that choses not to work, the administration hasn't opened up drilling as it was mandated to do- so why is that illegal activity okay? Why can an American be killed without arrest, a trial, or sentencing? Is that not very illegal? Why can an entire city be shut down due to one criminal? Is it not illegal to search houses without specific cause or warrant? Is it not illegal to keep data on all Americans?

Which would be illegal? To allow this to continue or to uphold the constitution.

Firing good soldiers under trumped up charges is another act of aggression against the United States.

Supporting known enemies is another.

Lying to the American public is one thing, lying to Congress is another. Giving guns to foreign and domestic thugs is an act of aggression.

Trampling the rights of a citizen and interfering with his right to a fair trial is too far.

Normally, Steve, I would agree. But if you realize that our government is not our government, you have to agree with me.
 
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