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Sunlei

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4. Bravo to Italys' Navy and Coast Guard!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 01:05 PM

Dec 2014

Hope our trillion dollar "HomeLand Security" pays attention to how EASY it is to get a large container ship and pre-program it to crash into land.

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Italy saves 970 migrants abandoned by smugglers [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2014 OP

To say their navy/coast guard's been working its ass off would be a huge understatement Posteritatis Dec 2014 #1

Ironically, the Italians are starting to debate Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #11

"derelict" ships with passengers fleeing "persecution", like "rape", "murder", closeupready Jan 2015 #15

this is the piece I was referring to: Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #17

Do you have a larger point, though, is my real question here? closeupready Jan 2015 #18

My larger point is while taking in the refugees is admirable, Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #19

Taking in refugees is admirable AND obligatory. closeupready Jan 2015 #20

where do mercuryblues Dec 2014 #2

ports and harbors and routes between have thousands of transport 'ships' Sunlei Dec 2014 #5

Smallish, end-of-life ships can be astonishingly cheap Posteritatis Dec 2014 #6

Will the Italians block the roads used by the Italian Coast Guard... krispos42 Dec 2014 #3

If any Italians do that, they will undoubtedly be Italian "republicans". pampango Jan 2015 #14

Bravo to Italys' Navy and Coast Guard! Sunlei Dec 2014 #4

Is this the new old way of dumping unwanted peoples off ffr Dec 2014 #7

All the smugglers would care about is their initial boarding fees Posteritatis Jan 2015 #9

You realize it is the refugees themselves, not "their country", that pay the smuggler fees? pampango Jan 2015 #13

So the cargo is migrants who pay smugglers to illegaly transport them via ship to a safe state. appalachiablue Jan 2015 #8

some smugglers have no intention of even trying to get migrants to the other countries JI7 Jan 2015 #12

Hardly surprising though Nihil Jan 2015 #16

At some point, the whole world wll have to deal with this )nt) question everything Jan 2015 #10