Text 5130, 49 rader
Skriven 2010-02-22 12:55:03 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 5100 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Re: The Dubai Connection
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Bob,
 
RB>WD> This coming May it will have 25 years that Fernando Pereira was
RB>WD> murdered by a French military hit squad.
 
RB> You twist the facts a bit here. This guy was killed in connection with
RB> the sinking of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrier. Greenpeace and their
RB> militant political agitation were the targets, he wasn't. He was merely
RB> in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Fernando Pereira was a friend. The Rainbow Warrior was blown to smithereens by
2 bombs attached by French military divers under direct command and authority
of the Minister of Defense of France, an act for which the final OK was given
by the French President (Mitterand) himself.
 
The object of the attack was not to scare people with a big splash in the water
but to violently and conclusively sink a ship. That cannot exclude killing the
crew because firecrackers won't do the job, the melodramatic statement
afterwards that the first explosion was only meant to scare the crew off the
ship can hardly be taken serious. The generator was knocked-out, no lights
other than emergency-lights and who would expect an explosion on a vessel that
basically has nothing on board which can explode that way. Barely 2 minutes
between the 2 explosives... it's a miracle not more were killed.
 
10kg explosives were used to bend the propeller, 20kg to blast a hole in the
side of the ship larger than a garage door. During my military service I worked
with explosives ... 20kg has an incredible blasting power.
 
Have you ever seen the size of the hole on a photo?
 
http://welcome.homedns.org/warrior.jpg
 
I know Pete Wilcox personally, he was the captain, on board and the information
he relayed to me was first-hand. Steve Sawyer I also know personally.
 
RB>WD> He never hurt a fly in his life.
 
RB> Maybe, but as the situation was totally different - he wasn't killed on
RB> purpose, nor even specifically targeted, but died when the ship went down
RB> - that doesn't really matter.
 
Of course, the 1,415 sailors that died when HMS Hood exploded and sank May 24
1941 after the brief engagement with Bismarck and Prinz Eugen weren't killed on
purpose by the Germans, they merely died when their ship went down.
 
 \%/@rd

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