The U.S. Navy is playing dangerous games in the Black Sea... NATO playing games with Montreux Convention.. It is clear that NATO is not only playing games with the 1936 Montreux Convention, which limits the naval vessels of non-littoral Black Sea nations to a 21-day stay in the Black Sea, but covering up the lengths of stay and missions of its ships in the region. In May, NATO and the U.S. Navy announced that the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Vella Gulf -- the motto of which is Move Swiftly, Strike Vigorously! -- was to enter the Black Sea on May 23 through the Bosphorus Strait controlled by Turkey... The stated aim of the Vella Gulfs presence was to provide Ukraine with naval support during its May 25 presidential election. However, the mission of the Vella Gulf was expanded. It became the de facto flag ship for NATOs BREEZE exercise, which began on July 4 and involved the navies of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Britain, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, and the United States. NATOs annual SEA BREEZE exercise with Ukraine, which was approved by the Ukrainian parliament for July 2014, was mysteriously left unscheduled by NATO and the U.S. Navy. Under the terms of the Montreux Convention, the Vella Gulf was to have departed the Black Sea on May 23. Yet, it was still present in the Black Sea at the completion of BREEZE on July 14. A NATO press release stated that the Vella Gulf was to remain behind for a few days after BREEZE to participate in training with other NATO ships in Romania. However, after the attack on Malaysian Airlines flight 17, NATOs press release has disappeared and the U.S. Navy insists that the Vella Gulf departed the Black Sea on July 14 and was in port in Souda Bay, Crete on July 17, the day MH-17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. The Vella Gulfs AEGIS combat systems SPY-1 radar had the capability to track MH-17s flight over Ukraine. According to the NATO press release, the Vella Gulf would have remained in the Black Sea on July 17... The Bosphorus Naval News, which reports on all traffic through the Bosphorus and Dardenelles, reported that the Vella Gulf transited the Turkish Straits southbound on July 14. However, there is one problem with the photograph [seen below] it provided of the purported southbound transit of the Aegis cruiser, shows it heading north, not south. The sign that reads Dur Yolcu [Traveler halt], which marks the World War I Gallipoli campaign, sits in the hillside atop the town of Çannakale, which is in Anatolia, the eastern shore of the straits. As seen in the photograph, the Vella Gulf is clearly heading north, not south. 1-canakkale-bogazindan-abd-savas-gemisi-gecti... Also now missing are data tapes from Kiev airports air traffic control center that include ground instructions from Ukrainian air traffic controllers to MH-17 to divert its flight path over the restricted area over eastern Ukraine... With the connivance of Turkey, the U.S. Navy has been systematically violating the Montreux Convention. Russia is the only littoral Black Sea nation that is not a full or applicant member of NATO. Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria are NATO members and Ukraine and Georgia have requested membership. It is therefore easy for the U.S. Navy and NATO to nullify Montreux and cover-up their actual military operations in the Black Sea. There are reports that NATOs plans include turning the Black Sea into a NATO lake. In February, during the Sochi Olympics, the USS Taylor exceeded its 21-day limit in the Black Sea after it reportedly ran aground in Samsun, Turkey. In April, the guided-missile destroyer, USS Truxtun, violated Montreux when it overstayed its 21-day limit. The original NATO release indicated that the Vella Gulf was to remain in the Black Sea and participate in an electronic warfare exercise with the French La Fayette-class frigate Surcouf and signals intelligence ship Dupuy de Lôme and the Italian signals intelligence ship ITS Elettra. At the completion of BREEZE, the Vella Gulfs Commanding Officer, Captain Robert Katz, said Exercise Breeze was an outstanding opportunity for Vella Gulf to collaborate with our NATO allies on a broad range of training exercises across all warfare areas. It is noteworthy that on July 13, the day before the Vella Gulf was to transit through the Turkish Straits and back into the Mediterranean, the ships Facebook page posted the following message: Greetings Family and Friends of Vella Gulf. The ship is experiencing some technical difficulties with our communication systems. Please do not be alarmed if you do not hear from your Sailor via ships e-mail or web services. We are working diligently to correct the problem but in the mean time, the phone lines are still functional, so you can use them to contact your Sailor in an emergency. Thank you for your understanding. Updates will be posted here. That was followed on July 15 by the following message from the ship: Were still down on email and internet services but hope to be back up in a week to 10 days. Stay tuned here for updates. The Vella Gulfs skipper hails from an interesting family. Captain Katzs father, retired Vice Admiral Douglas Katz, is described in a November 7, 2012 press release from West Virginia University as holding one of the highest-ranking positions ever held by a Jew in the U.S. Navy. Admiral Katz assumed the responsibilities of Commander of Naval Surface Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet in September 1994. He retired in 1997. Admiral Katz told a West Virginia University audience that while commander of U.S. Atlantic naval surface forces, he studied and established relationships with small Jewish communities throughout the Middle East, particularly in Bahrain. He then added, I guess it was thought that my being Jewish gave me a unique capacity for understanding how an Arab thinks. One can only wonder what the Israel Lobby would say if a Muslim U.S. admiral, who studied and established contacts with Muslim Israeli Arab and Palestinian communities, stated, while his ship was in port in Haifa, I guess it was thought that my being Muslim gave me a unique capacity for understanding how a Jew thinks. Bahrains Jewish community has been supportive of that nations ruling Wahhabi Muslim royal family, which has been committing genocide against the Shia majority population of the island nation. One can only hope that the Israel Lobby does not now have its own U.S. Navy ships at its disposal to prop up anti-Shia regimes in countries like Bahrain and Qatar and support the actions of the Zionist-Nazi clique in Kiev and its loyal Ukrainian Jewish warlords, such as billionaire oligarch and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast governor Ihor Kolomoisky and former Vinnytsia mayor and now Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Groysman...
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:40:07 +0000
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