A major rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard has told the BBC.
The vessel carrying “between 500 and 700 migrants” capsized at midnight local time, it said.
So far 28 people have been rescued.
Italian ships, the Maltese Navy and commercial vessels are all involved in the rescue operation in Libyan waters south of Italy’s island of Lampedusa.
The Italian coastguard’s spokesman said the operation in Libyan waters, about 130 miles (210km) off the coast of Lampedusa, was likely in the next few hours to become more focused on a search for bodies.
nothing,
most of the italian cops turn a blind eye as they are headed out of italy and on to ireland and the nordic countries, the y only use italy as a landing base into europe
italy couldnt give a fuck about these arabs but their navy’s time is been wasted as they need to fish the shite out of their part of the med when the overloaded tin can the poor bastards paid ten times their life savings with their parents down as guarantor sinks in the first storm
nothing odd is going on, Gadaffi got turfed out, the morons left behind are unable to create any stability so ISIL have come in to fill the void, Egypt is next, anyone with a brain wants out, moral of the story Arab countries can only be run by dictatorships, democracy just cant work, arab spring my hole
[QUOTE=“ProjectX, post: 1126110, member: 1742”]Correct, from the west’s perspective, it would be easier to monitor 1 dictator rather than the current disastrous situation.
The world badly needs a Bush in the White House again.[/QUOTE]
aside from the west, they place is a fucking mess, the demorcratic process is really doing Iraq, Libya and Yemen a favor isnt it?, if Sisi looses power in Egypt all hell will break loose there again, Sinai is already a battleground between Al Qaeda and ISIL, the Egyptian miliatary have fucked off and admitted defeat there apart from bombing their side of Gaza for sport to keep the Israelis happy ( see US aid and dodgy oil deals between Netanyahu and Egypt , u kill Hamas , we’ll buy your fuel at inflated prices ( that the US pays for anyway so we dont mind ur crowd burning down our embassy in Cairo) they are not in control of that region. At least he (sisi) had the gumption to sentence the whole Muslem Brotherhood to death or i suppose as the largest reciever of US interantional aid worldwide someone from The Capitol may have had a word in his ear first regarding that one
I see Daily Heil columnist Jeremy Hopkiss has called for the British Navy to go into the Mediterranean and smash the shit out of any more boats full of illegal aliens that attempt to enter our waters, and that the corpses of any victims should be minced up and used as a cost effective substitute for horse meat in beef burgers served in homeless shelters.
I really like Hopkiss - he calls it as it is, is a bit of a rebel, isn’t afraid to be different or controversial, exposes groupthink, won’t cow to the PC agenda and calls out those fucking nig-nogs for the cockroaches they are. We need more like him.
I have to sadly agree that this looks very true at present.
The only solution at present would appear to be patrols very close to the Libyan shores, with boats turned around, put back ashore and then burned once the people are safely off.
There would need to be some kind of aid going hand in hand with this.