Israeli troops armed with paintball guns

[Niccolo]

Check out the video at 0.52 to 0.54. What's he got in his hand there? The weapon of choice for anyone engaged in "genocide" or "state terrorism" - a paintball gun!

[russtafa]

cool paint the town red

[notdrunk]

Interestingly, the other ships were boarded and nobody was killed. Why? because nobody didn't attack the soldiers like dummies. The Israelis underestimated the Islamists* on the Turkish ship.

*Google IHH (insani yardım vakfı)

[yosi]

[Faldur]

Yosi, that video hits the nail on the head. Funny stuff..

[trish]

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2256127/entry/3/

[notdrunk]

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2256127/entry/3/

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6521UG

Those peaceful activists...righttttt. Interestingly, the Rachel Corrie was boarded without incident. Why? No radicals on board..

[trish]

Thanks for the reuters article. I'm not going to pretend to take any side on this incident. It's clear they were boarded in international waters. It also seems clear from the reuters article that the first marines who boarded were seized. According to the Slate article, there are activist bodies with 30 rounds fired into them. I'm not sure anybody has the real story as to what went down. But it wasn't done with paint guns, that's for sure.

[evilernie]

Fucking religions and their self-fulfilling prophecies.

[notdrunk]

Thanks for the reuters article. I'm not going to pretend to take any side on this incident. It's clear they were boarded in international waters. It also seems clear from the reuters article that the first marines who boarded were seized. According to the Slate article, there are activist bodies with 30 rounds fired into them. I'm not sure anybody has the real story as to what went down. But it wasn't done with paint guns, that's for sure.

And, we don't why they killed those people. The commandos were shooting some people not trying to kill them too. It seems they went to pistols when the situation became fubar.