If you haven't found the wit and wisdom that is the Duffel Blog, well then, get yourself over there now for some great Onion-esque military reporting. The latest taste of Duffel: USS Haditha Accidentally Sinks Fishing Boat, Machine-Guns Survivors Manama, Bahrain – In a rare setback for the international anti-piracy campaign off Somalia, US Navy officials today admitted that the American warship USS Haditha accidentally sank a Chinese fishing vessel just east of Somalia and then inadvertently machine-gunned the survivors. This contradicted the Haditha‘s initial report, which said that it had been attacked by seven pirate skiffs and a pair of pirate-operated Miragejets armed with Exocet missiles. Vice Admiral Mark I. Fox, the commander of the United States 5th Fleet, spoke to reporters following reports that a fishing vessel had been “blown out of the water” by “an unusually well-armed warship that happened to be flying an American flag.”... Go to the Duffel Blog for the rest...
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Jun 13 2012, 01:05 AM
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