Irish ship will not sail to Gaza after 'sabotage'
The Irish 'ship' (looks more like a yacht - yes, that's it) MV Saoirse has dropped out of the Gaza flotilla of fools after the 'ship' was allegedly 'sabotaged' near a Turkish port. Speaking last night from the Turkish port of Göcek, Fintan Lane, the national co-ordinator of Irish Ship to Gaza organisation, said that the ship would not be able to sail as it had been “dangerously sabotaged”, according to the organising campaign.Maybe the propeller got eaten by a worm. Heh.
He said that the damage to the ship was discovered on Monday night when the captain noticed that there was something wrong. Divers found that a piece was missing from one of the propeller shafts.
“This was the type of sabotage that endangered human life,” Mr Lane said last night. “They put divers under the boat who cut a piece out of the propeller shaft. That means that the damage would have happened gradually and what would have happened eventually is that the propeller would have come up through the bottom of the boat, caused a flood in the engine room and would have caused the boat to sink.”
He said the attack was “unnerving” for the crew, classifying it as a “violent attack” on the lives of those aboard. He said pictures detailing the damage to the ship would be published by the campaign today during a press conference in Dublin.
Mr Lane said that, due to the extent of the damage, the MV Saoirse would not be in a position to sail, adding that just six of the 20-plus crew who had been due to set sail would be able to take part in the flotilla by joining an Italian-based vessel today.
Labels: flotilla of fools, MV Saoirse
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:54 PM
4 Comments:
More Mossad sabotage.
But no one in Israel is sayin.'
If this keeps up, there may not be a flotilla to sail next week.
Heh
maybe they just bought a piece of junk with a defective propeller shaft.
If Israel starts messing around with the Irish, it will surely be the beginning of the end of their cosy little position in America.
I am sending out a team tonight, to repair/replace that prop shaft - and providing armed guards for the vessel.
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