Spot the difference!
Ok first lets take a look at this….
This is from the Iranian based Hezbollah site moqavemat and is “an Israeli ship being struck by a Hezbollah missle”.
Loverly shot, most impresssed by Hezbollah getting their chopper in place in time to get this shot and managing to avoid all the AAA coming from the Israeli navy. Get it together you guys.
Ok flash back to 1998…
This is a photo of the decommissioned Australian destroyer-escort HMAS Torrens being sunk by a torpedo fired by the submarine HMAS Farncomb.
You will note the ship has been completely stipped down and there are no weapons, navigational or communications systems in evidence. Obseverve also the total abscence of a bow wave or wake of any kind. This ship was stationary when struck.
Now I put it to you that these two pictures may actually constitute Hezbollah being just tad dishonest and I will go as far as to sugest that these to photos are possible one in the same!
Yes and how shocked are we all that they would even try to pull this off?
Firstly Hezbollah missles have a number of chacteristics, accuracy isn’t one of them. Targeting of military assests is also not the first priority. Since their top target is civilian residential areas with a focus on hospitals, schools and relgious sites if they’d showed us a picture of two dead little (Muslim) boys in Nazareth that they had murdered we might have been just a tad less skeptical.
However be assured that the Muslim world will swallow this crap hook line and sinker. They might see Reuters or BBC throw cold water on it though… the day after say France for example aquires a set of balls.
Lets all hold our breath on that one shall we.
August 25, 2006 at 2:58 am
Literally millions of people have seen that test of the ADCAP torpedo. I’ve got the whole sequence saved somewhere.
That’s just ridiculous
August 26, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Wow.
That’s pretty, bloody blantant using that as propoganda.
Let’s also remind everyone that lying to the infidel to support jihad is encouraged in Islam.
August 26, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Murray,
I was going to ask how you made the connection, but Gadfly answered the question. Still, good work.
August 26, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Asume everything they present is a lie and you’re halfway there.
Warships are very distinctive things. Everyone who has ever put on a uniform has been trained to id any ship, aircraft or vehicle he’s looking at from as far away as possible for the obvious reasons.
How the hell these turkeys expect to pull off shit like this with literally thousands of real live experts checking them in real time is a mystery. I’m not sure who first picked this one up but it has multiple online sources.
August 27, 2006 at 2:33 am
That they think they can get away with it speaks volumes about the kind of society Hezbollah represents and would dearly love to impose on the rest of us.
Funny thing is, in the atmosphere of fear and obedience that they’ve created they’ll be able to say the infidels are making fake claims about a torpedoed ship eight years ago. Wont be too many enquiring minds among them following the story up.
November 11, 2006 at 12:38 am
Hold on just a minute,
The pic that I found on mouqavamet has the same number but its not the same pic. The number is 81.28.44.243 same as here. Could it be that you doctored this one? Besides that ship was shot at night, and they showed a video of it! Please send the link to the pic that you have on mqavemat.