Breaking news on CNN that the USS Arleigh Burke, a guided missile destroyer, is pursuing a hijacked Japanese-owned ship carrying benzene, a volatile and highly flammable chemical.
The ship was hijacked off the coast of Somalia:
Pirates commandeered the ship, the Golden Mori, off the Horn of Africa last night. The USS Porter, the Burke’s Aegis sister ship, fired on and sank two skiffs being towed. At the time, the ship’s cargo wasn’t know, officials told CNN. Benzene, which is known to cause cancer, is used in solvents, plastics and synthetic fibers.
A tanker full of a highly flammable chemical?
Is there any chance that these “pirates” are Islamic terrorists?
“Piracy
1: an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery”
~Webster’s
Why the quotes? Oh, right: the liberal media is desperately conspiring to ignore reports of any wrongdoing committed by Muslims around the globe in an effort to rot the security of the United States from within so CNN’s closest ally, Al Quaeda, can fire upon the White House from aboard the SS Jihad.
Maybe you would have been happier with a headline that read:
“Dastardly acts of swashbuckling off the coast of Africa! Unconfirmed sources identify RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS as possible culprits!”
Left by John Jarzemsky on October 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am