Irish boat drops out of flotilla, cites sabotage
AP
30-Jun-2011 (one comment)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An Irish ship on Thursday dropped out of the pro-Palestinian flotilla planning to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, citing sabotage, and a U.S. ship declared it may set sail from a Greek port for Gaza without permission, activists said.

Up to 400 international activists had been due to sail this week to Gaza aboard 10 ships leaving from Greece to protest the naval blockade that Israel imposed on the Palestinian territory after Hamas militants overran it in 2007.

An Israeli raid on a similar flotilla last year killed nine activists on a Turkish ship and each side blamed the other for the violence.

The Irish ship MV Saoirse had to abandon plans to set sail because of what it called Israeli sabotage. Activist Huwaida Arraf told Israel's Army Radio that the ship's engine was damaged while in port and could have lead to deaths on board.

"When the engine was started, it completely bent," Arraf said. "While out at sea, if this would have happened, if it would have bent in this way, the boat would have started taking on water and it could have led to fatalities."

The alleged sabotage occurred at the Turkish coastal town of Gocek where the MV Saoirse has been berthed for the past few weeks, organizers said.

Earlier this week, activists said Israeli ag... >>>

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Simorgh5555

LOL

by Simorgh5555 on Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Your flotilla has ended before it even begun. 

Where is the IR? Where is their effort in this flotilla? Having purchased Israeli military hardware they wouldn't dare upset their favourite benefactor by joining in directly. Now that would have been a great show of courage to see the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guards confronting the IDF? Do they have the balls? Nope. They only have the guts to torture and punish Iranian people.  


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