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AngryChimp on August 31, 2006 - 11:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Chirac offer of 2,000 troops breaks impasse on Lebanon peacekeepers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1857975,00.html

Report: Germany to send up to 1,200 troops to Lebanon force
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/754890.html

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totoneila on September 1, 2006 - 1:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello AC,

From your last link:
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"Also Saturday, German Vice Chancellor Franz Muentefering told a German newspaper that sailors must be empowered to board ships against the will of their crew in order to prevent arms smuggling to Lebanon."
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My speculation: Blackwater's new Maritime Security subsidiary is tailor made for this task if German, French, and Italian naval forces are not up to this essential interdiction task on the high seas.  The national navys could provide the big ships, big cannon/missiles, and patrol aircraft, but the helicopters and fast-attack patrol boats that would forcibly board opposing ships could be staffed by the hired security forces.

IMO, it offers the best solution to ending the current Israeli naval blockade of Lebanon, yet protects Chirac and other leaders from the political embarrassment of potentially having their sailors die in battle.  Time will tell.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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