A Very Small Coup...

[Carolann R]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the Navy from using a type of sonar, allegedly harmful to marine mammals, during a Pacific warfare exercise scheduled to begin this week.

The order comes three days after the Navy obtained a six-month national defense exemption from the Defense Department allowing it to use "mid-frequency active sonar."

Environmental groups had sued to stop the sonar use during the exercises off Hawaii. The sonar portion of the war games was set to start Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote in her order that the plaintiffs "have shown a possibility that RIMPAC 2006 will kill, injure, and disturb many marine species, including marine mammals, in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands."


Carrie

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[Mitzi M]

Hi Carrie,
Thanks for posting this. Good info...War games...Argh#$@&^*! "Kill, injure and disturb" sounds pretty serious to me.

[loffelkopffl]

you would think with afghanistan going down the tubes and bush's failed oil war, that they wouldn't have to "play" war!


you can bomb the world into pieces,
but you can't bomb it into peace.