... was it re-"classified"?
Contributor: "YYC"
This is UPDATE #2 to yesterday's post about the purported amazing rescue of Iranian fishermen by US ships.
I had no sooner copied a quote from a Wiki item in this blog post, than it disappeared from the Wiki. If you can't see it either, it's still alive in Google cache, but in case that disappears, here's a screen capture.
Here's what the full article under the heading 2012 said, and is recorded in Google cache:
On 3 January 2012, Iranian General Ataollah Salehi warned the USS John C. Stennis "not to return to the Persian Gulf."[16]Wikipedia cited this US Navy article as its source for the above, but either the paragraph never existed or it's been expunged there as well. What seems most likely?
On 7 January, the USS John C. Stennis led the rescue of an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel, the Al Mulahi, following its seizure by pirates. The pirates abused the ship and Iranian flag to search for other ships to hijack, while holding the original crew hostage. When some of the pirates attempted to board a Bahamian-flagged cargo ship, Sunshine, it radioed for assistance. The USS John C. Stennis dispatched a helicopter and cruiser to assist. A boarding party captured the pirates who attacked the Sunshine, fed them, then released them temporarily. A helicopter then secretly followed the pirates back to their mother ship, the Al Mulahi. The USS Kidd then boarded the fishing vessel (upon permission in Urdu from the captain), and arrested all of the pirates with no casualties.[17]
3 comments:
Very weird. I clicked your link and got the old pre-7 January version until I forced a refresh of the page. Maybe something to do with caching?
Thanks, Anon, for noting that. I recall having the same strange experience at first. But when I saw that the cited source did not contain the information, I thought maybe Wikipedia had been purposely edited to reflect that it was expunged at the source.
I was just seeking this information for a while. After six hours of continuous Googleing, at last I got it in your web site. I wonder what's the Google's problem that does not rank this kind of informative web sites closer to the top. Normally the top sites are full of garbage.
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