Courtesy of ALI AKBAR DAREINI and TAREK EL-TABLAWY, AP today, "US warns Iran against closing key oil passage,"

http://news.yahoo.com/us-warns-iran-against-closing-key-oil-passage-181233732.html

The U.S. strongly warned Iran on ( Read more... )

Courtesy of ANSA, "Italian Trawler Hit By Libyan Gunfire" (http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/09/13/visualizza_new.html_1783421574.html) and also reported with commentary in Gates of Vienna.

An Italian ( Read more... )

In "Charge the War Criminals" in American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/charge_the_real_war_criminals.html), Joel B. Pollak makes some important points.

( What Points Are These? )

Mourn, O Ireland! For the heroic ship Rachel Corrie, which tried to run the blockade imposed by the Evil Jews on the poor peaceful suicide-bombing rocket-firing goodmen of Gaza, has fallen into their vile Hebrew hands. O, for the shame and indignity ( Read more... )

Buoyed by their "success" with the Freedom Flotilla (a "success" purely in that they got a lot of MSM to say mean things about Israel; you will note that none of the ships of the Flotilla actually made it to the Gaza), the Terrorists are trying again. This time with a ship named after a well-known moron ... I mean, martyr ...who famously restaged ( Read more... )

From "10 killed in Israeli attack on aid flotilla bound for Gaza," (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/31/c_13325000.htmRead more... )

From Tia Goldenberg, AP News "Pro-Palestinian aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza" (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100530/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians)

The flotilla, which includes three cargo ships and three passenger ships, is trying to ( Read more... )

As you all know, the world was improved recently by the forcible expulsion of three pirates into whatever next world awaits pirates (which is probably not a cheerful one). Courtesy of stryck and the McClatchy, we now learn that the pirates had whiny friends ( Read more... )

From Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Lara Jakes, AP (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090412/ap_on_re_af/piracy)

MOMBASA, Kenya - An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him ( Read more... )

Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats threatened US warships in this vital shipping route, through which much of the world's oil passes, last weekend ( Read more... )