UPDATED - Iran Captures U.S. Owned Cargo Ship - Take 34 U.S. Sailors Prisoner

From Reuters:

Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said an Iranian "force" seized a U.S. cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. 

The channel said the force had "opened fire" on the U.S. ship, which had 34 U.S. sailors aboard. It gave no further details. 

The U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Gulf Arab kingdom of Bahrain had no immediate comment on the report.

BBC Breaking News: ran captures US cargo ship and escorts it to Iranian port 

UPDATE - Now, Fox News is reporting this ship flies the flag of Marshall Islands".  It is not an American ship, and the New York Times is saying the ship is Danish and there are no American sailors aboard.

Ace of Spades points out:

1. Iran Boards Marshall Islands-Flagged Ship
2. The Marshall Islands are In Free Association With the US; The US is Treaty-Bound to Protect Them
3. Obama Administration & Media Start Shouting "The Ship Wasn't US-Flagged!"

Muslim Brotherhood Demands Treaty Be Kept

From this source:

US aid to Egypt is guaranteed by the Camp David Accords, and stopping it would be a violation of that treaty, a high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker said Sunday.

Essam El-Erian, who also serves as chairman of the Egyptian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said that should aid from Washington be cut, the Brotherhood would consider changing the terms of Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel.

[...]

...Last month the US administration announced it would speed up aid to Egypt as the country copes with mounting economic problems during the transition from president Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade term in power.

Congress has already approved $1.3 billion in military aid and $250 million in civilian aid for the current fiscal year. That assistance, however, is conditioned upon Egypt meeting all of its obligations under its peace treaty with Israel....

My prediction: Obama will ignore that last sentence. After all, Obama is Carter on crack.

Carter Hating Israel

H/T: Pat Dollard

In a follow up to an earlier post by Pastorius, above is the disgusting video of our former president in Gaza, kowtowing to the Islamo-Fascists and evincing his hatred of the great state of Israel.

Jesse & Company to Pyongyang

Asked whether outreach to North Korea by former Vice President Al Gore would be beneficial, Jackson says:

“It could, if he has the moral appeal to them and they can trust him, whether it's former Vice President Al Gore, or Governor Bill Richardson or President Jimmy Carter. Those who made some way in reaching out could very well be a trusted broker between the two governments.

But make the moral appeal. These two young women have done nothing to earn being in prison for 12 years.

They are at this point a pawn in the bigger political game. The case I would make if I were to go to North Korea, to the leadership, is that: ‘to hold these young women as hostages are trophies, does not get what you need. You need to have your security increased. That is to say, the relief of such abounding poverty in your zone, and to have less military threats headed toward you.' …That's why I think any bellicose or rhetoric or threats does not serve our country well, nor does it serve our quest to secure their freedom.”

Hat Tip: The Page

I have a deal for Kim Jong-il, I will trade you Jesse Jackson, Prince Albert Gore, James Earl Carter and Bill Richardson for the two female journalists.

Just imagine what "progress" they could make in helping the Great Leader to continue constructing that magnificent society in North Korea!!!

The Conscience of the Democratic Party

"Barack Hussein Obama, I am your father!!!"...Comrade James Earl Carter