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Re: Greenpeace (Was: Super Tanker and Tug Boat at Joe's Lego Page)
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Tue, 16 Mar 1999 03:03:52 GMT
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> Tim McSweeney wrote:
> > Woh, Back the Super Tanker up there. "New Zealand-funded terrorists"? • They
> > were French Terrorists and they sank it in a peaceful New Zealand harbor,
> > This one in fact. I remember going down to the docks with my parents to • see
> > the ship half submerged.
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> Oh. That's different from the story I heard, way back when it happened.
> Then again, what I heard was through the _Stars and Stripes_, which if you
> consider is published by the US Army, probably isn't the most unbiased • piece
> of yellow journalism.
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> Did one specific group really claim responsibility for it, or were they
> identified by other sources?
They spies were caught and exposed as working for the French government.
Rather than being sentenced for murder here they were returned to their
government who packed them off to some tropical island "prison" from which
they have since been released. This was seen by most New Zealanders as
being a slap on the wrist for them, and a slap in the face for us.
For the Greenpeace version of events check out:
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/rw/pkbomb.html
Tim
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