Hamas naval commandos arrest dolphin who 'spied for Israel'

A military dolphin (illustrative). (photo credit:Wikimedia Commons,JPOST STAFF)



The Palestinian daily Al-Quds claimed on Wednesday that Hamas has captured a dolphin used by the Israeli navy to attack members of its armed wing, Eziddin al-Qassam. Quoting sources in the Gaza Strip, the paper said that the Israeli dolphin was captured off the shores of the Gaza Strip a few days ago. The sources said that Hamas naval commandos noticed “suspicious movements” of the dolphin. When they followed the dolphin, they discovered that it was carrying a device to monitor underwater activities.

The sources claimed that Hamas “frogmen” managed to seize the dolphin and take it to the shore. They discovered that the dolphin had been equipped with a remote control monitoring device and a camera. According to the sources, the captured device is able to fire small arrows that could kill any person or seriously injure who dives deep into the sea. The report said that Hamas believes that Israel was planning to target or monitor the movement’s naval commandos during their training in the sea. It said that Hamas experts were continuing to check whether the captured dolphin was carrying other electronic devices.

Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip refused to comment on the newspaper report.


http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-naval-commandos-arrest-dolphin-who-spied-for-Israel-412579


Priceless.... 

You aren't very well read are you:

Editor's note: CNN's Kaj Larsen served as an active duty member of the U.S. Navy SEALs for five years and was trained in combat diving. For more on this story and others, check out "CNN Presents," Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
San Diego (CNN) -- In a little-known part of the counter-terrorism world, one of the most effective detection systems is a 600-pound animal that works for about 20 pounds of fish a day.
Since the 1960s, the United States and a handful of other countries have trained dolphins and sea lions to detect sea mines and swimmers, and to recover inert torpedoes and testing objects used in Naval exercises.
Program officials estimate that the sea lions in the Marine Mammal Program have recovered millions of dollars of U.S. Naval torpedoes and instrumentation dropped on the sea floor.
The U.S. Navy kept its Marine Mammal Program a secret until the 1990s, and this spring CNN became one of only a handful of media outlets to see firsthand how the program works.
Watch Kaj take part in U.S. Navy marine mammal exercise
The program trains about 75 Pacific bottlenose dolphins, with natural biosonar that tracks better than any manmade device; and 35 California sea lions, with supurb underwater eyesight.
Not only do these trained marine mammals track and retrieve millions of dollars in U.S. military equipment, they are also helping to save lives.
The Navy won't disclose whether the dolphins and sea lions have effectively intercepted terrorists attempting to do harm to any U.S. facilities.
Either way, "it serves as a deterrent effect," says Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the program.
When animals protect
Beasts of war
The Navy's 'marine mammal militia'
The mammals can be deployed via C-130 cargo aircraft to perform their missions anywhere in the world within 72 hours. They have been used in exercises from Alaska to Hawaii, operating in great temperature and environmental ranges. They also have the capability to operate off vessels.
Dolphins most recently were deployed in the Iraq war, performing mine detection and clearance operations in the Persian Gulf to ensure safe passage for humanitarian ships delivering aid. Some of these Iraq war "veterans" are now back home, tasked with a new mission: guarding nuclear submarines in their homeports of Bremerton, Washington, and Groton, Connecticut.
A key part of the training program is teaching these mammals how to intercept potentially hostile swimmers.
There is an entire domain of port and harbor security devoted to anti-combat swimmer or swimmer defense. Combat diving or swimming is practiced by a small contingent of special operations forces around the world.
Using an underwater breathing apparatus, at night, is a very stealthy way to come upon a target unannounced and inflict violence of action with the element of surprise. The German Kampfschwimmers, Israel's Shayatet 13, and the U.S. Navy SEALs are generally considered the premier units that train and conduct combat swimmer operations around the world.
The Marine Mammal Program was conceived to defend against these kinds of attacks from hostile nations.
The program is also positioned to defend against lone swimmer terrorist attacks as well.
In 2002, classified reports from the intelligence community, gleaned from interrogations of suspects in Afghanistan, warned that al Qaeda was planning on using scuba divers to attack U.S. Navy vessels in port or at anchor.
And just this week a picture emerged on the Facebook page of Oslo terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik, holding a modified assault rifle in what appears to be a combat diving set-up.
How the program started
In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy began studying the hydrodynamics of a Pacific white-sided dolphin in an effort to improve torpedo performance. The Navy quickly realized that the incredibly efficient biosonar of the dolphin was excellent for detecting hard-to-find objects -- and people -- underwater.
For the next quarter-century, the U.S. Navy secretly honed the technique of using mammals to find both underwater objects, detect mines and combat swimmers. The Navy deployed dolphins to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf to perform the swimmer interdiction mission.
In the 1990s, the U.S. military declassified the Marine Mammal Program and since then, it has been headquartered at the Point Loma Naval Base in San Diego.
The program is managed jointly by the Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific and military explosive experts, who are the backbone of the program.
In addition, civilian marine biologists, veterinarians, scientists and handlers are involved in the program. Researchers from institutions like Sea World to UC San Diego regularly collaborate with them for research purposes.
The program has an annual operating budget of $20 million, according to Marine Mammal Program director Mike Rothe who expressed confidence that the program's future funding is not at risk.
"We don't anticipate any impacts to our budget based on current issues in D.C.," Rothe said.
Dogged by accusations of animal mistreatment and conspiracy theories that the animals are used for offensive operations like mine placement and swimmer attack, the U.S. Navy has been slowly allowing access to the program.
In April, CNN got a rare opportunity to witness firsthand how accurate these animals are at detecting possible threats.
Trying to outsmart a dolphin
Armed with an inert limpet mine, I dove into the chilly waters of San Diego bay to perform five mock attacks on an experimental Navy ship docked to a pier to see how well these dolphins can find potential attackers in the water.

Both as a surface swimmer and using scuba gear, my experience was identical. I'd progress toward the ship and out of the murky waters of the bay I would feel an aggressive bump -- sort of like getting hit by a battering ram -- indicating the dolphin had marked me and that security forces were on their way to my location.
Despite all my efforts at concealment, I was an easy target for the dolphin in its natural environment.
Later, I was intercepted by a sea lion who attached a clamplike device to my leg -- allowing the security boat to reel me in.
The final score of my day of training in the bay: mammals 5, combat swimmer 0.
While it seems strange that in this digital era, there's such a seemingly lo-fi approach to guard the Navy's most sophisticated and expensive assets. But according to Rothe, nothing in today's hi-tech world can compete with these mammals' biosonar abilities.
"I hope that one day there is a robot or a UUV [unmanned underwater vehicle] that makes the mammal program obsolete," he said. "But right now this is the best thing out there."

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/31/marine.mammals.program/

The military have used dolphins for years.

OMG Sassy fail big ha ha ha ha ha ha

No Didge, you fail.  The Americans have a very large military dolphin programme, if you bothered to read the post.   Which of course you never do.

I cannot stop laughing.
See if Sassy has twiged yet ha ha ha ha ha

You did realise that Eziddin al-Qassam have divers and frogmen, or are you really that dumb?

How are they going to question the Dolphine Sassy and have they locked the Dolphin in a prison cell?

Ha ha ha ha ha

Don't be completely thick, obviously looking to see if it has military bugs etc in it.   That was a quick cover up, you didn't know about the frogmen and divers did you?  DOH!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

But they arrrested the Dolphin Sassy....

The newspaper used the word 'arrested' for just the reason you have fallen for.

James Bond the Dolphin Licensed to blow hole


Ha ha ha ha

They reeled you in didn't they?

Oh please sassy my sides are splitting:



According to the sources, the captured device is able to fire small arrows that could kill any person or seriously injure who dives deep into the sea.


Ha ha ha ha ha

They really have reeled you in haven't they:

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.
Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.
'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'
Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. 'The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?' said Sheridan.
The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. Eight were found with the navy's help, but the dolphins were not returned until US navy scientists had examined them.
Sheridan is convinced the scientists were keen to ensure the dolphins were not the navy's, understood to be kept in training ponds in a sound in Louisiana, close to Lake Pontchartrain, whose waters devastated New Orleans.
The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea.
Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use of dolphins became more secretive. But the project gained impetus after the Yemen terror attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Dolphins have also been used to detect mines near an Iraqi port.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/25/usa.theobserver

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Ha ha ha ha never laughed so much in all my life.


Did you know Eygpt once accused Mossad of training sharks to attack tourists?
And you believe 9/11 is a conspiracy.

Priceless some people are so gullible

No good trying to save face, you knew nothing about the training of dolphins for military purposes and thought it was a joke, now you have been made to look a total ignoramus and are trying to laugh it off.  Sad man.

Errr present your evidencce Sassy your article was ??????


Hearsay

Seriously you are so gullible, did it use its flipper to fire at terrorists


Ha ha Ha Ha ha

FGS you twit, read the articles, none of it was hearsay.

It was heasay.
So explain why the Dolphin did not carry out its objective being as you claimed it is licened to kill?
Explain how the dolphin could even fire such a weapon?

ha ha ha ha ha

BTW, that picture was of a real military dolphin:

Wearing an army beret?


Ha ha ha


Oh Sassy, there has never been any evidence of any so called killer dophins using darts, there certainly has been claims, but one big thing really places such a claim as false, being there have been no victims and why did this Dolphin also not fire on them if as you claimed it was trained to do so. Not only that how could it fire such a contraption. I mean not only is it a remote control monitoring device, which I believe is very possible, but also capable of firing multiple darts?
How on earth would it be able to fire them.? It would take Israel troops to be able to fire not the dolphin.

Anyway it was a grweat spin on the story and the most important part Hamas refusing to comment on.

My word you are a fool.  However used that picture of K2 superimposed a beret on it.  You really need to go back to the factory for tuning.

No sense of humour and people moan at me about that ha ha ha.

It seems the dolphins are a hell of a lot more intelligent than didge.

Well that must make you dumber than a dodo Sassy

I wasn't the one who got reeled in and knew nothing about the military training of dolphins.

Is that what you believe ha ha ha ha
I know more about the military then you will ever hope to achieve in your life sassy. Seriously where did I say Dolphins had not been used by the military?
Never did, I did though rip apart how you did stupidly jusmp to the defence of for all intents and purposes a piss take story.
Seriously your love of Hamas proves that ha ha ha

I'M sure I read recently that Hamas had captured a Pigeon and accused it of spying>

nicko wrote:    






I'M sure I read recently that Hamas had captured a Pigeon and accused it of spying>









         

Never underestimate mankinds ability to teach animals what to do. Dolphins have been used for years in warlike situations by many nations.
The newspaper in the OP was only quoting what was broadcast by the IDF radio station who it's peferctly obvious have spoofed this up to try and make it ridulous.
There is no evidence that Hamas have made thse claims about what this Dolphin could do anywhere that I can see.
The Israeli's have been caught out and are now trying to cover their backs and it seems some people have been well and truly mugged by it.
At least US naval rating HDog got a mention and his picture published as well - what a hero

Hamas naval commandos have arrested a dolphin they say was spying for Israel off the coast of Gaza. The Palestinian daily Al-Quds reports they confiscated “spying equipment” from the finned agent.

Count the Mossad dolphin as the latest member of the zoological Zionist conspiracy: Israel’s neighbors have been locking up finned and feathered 007s for years now.

In 2013, Egypt’s government detained an “Israeli” stork after a local fisherman found a suspicious device on its leg. (Oops: French scientists were behind that espionage.)

In 2010, an Egyptian official accused the Israelis of releasing a shark with an implanted control device to disrupt tourism.

In 2012, Saudi media exploded in anger over the Zionist plot exposed by the hunter who caught a vulture with a GPS tracker and a “Tel Aviv University” band. (The school was tracking an endangered species.)

The lesson, of course, is that propagandists across the region have spent so many years accusing the Israelis of so many evils that even the silliest charge makes headlines.
It’s a small wonder no Arab paper has connected the dots and reported that Dr. Doolittle is a Jew.


http://nypost.com/2015/08/19/why-arabs-keep-finding-israeli-animal-spies/