From: "George Sherwood" 

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:12:07 +0100, Adam wrote:

>
> I'm just wondering how soon before some "georgian separatist movement"
> blows up the baku-ceyhan pipeline.

Actually be pretty tough to do given the way the pipeline is buried.  But
if this "separatist movement" was sophisticated enough, who
knows.  You probably wouldn't be surprised at how many similar stories I
hear.


> Indeed. In a noisy crowded bar/next to crashing waves/a waterfall/in a
> rainstorm .

Sounds like a perfect place. 


>
> Welcome to the world......it will only get worse for a period of time as
> the Muslims are now mostly rightly convinced that your only interest is
> in protecting Israel.....or the oil supply.

We will for quite a while have to agree to disagree on that one.


> I'll bet the Caspian ferries from Russia to Iran are being watched to
> look for crates of Russian kit they need testing given how well the
> stuff Hezbollah has is performing.
>
> "Battle proven" stickers always help sales esp when shown to do nasty
> things to merkava III'es.

I think any one that wants that stuff already has it.  I am not nearly the
fan of the Russian kit as you.  It is cheap and plentiful, but from what I
am seeing doesn't hold up at all.  Seeing more and more failures in many
areas of the Russian military.


>
> Now if they could just ship in some manpad capable of pulling down some
> apache etc....they'd be onto a sales winner...

I am sure they are working hard to get them into the theater.

George

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