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Did you know... that during the 2018 Grande Tema incident, four stowaways threw faeces and urine and made threats to kill the ship's crew?
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I can't see why anyone would just make up the Operation codename and see it spread as much as it has but without any reliable, especially official, sources, I supposed the name can't be backed up with any evidence. Also thanks for letting me know, I will try and steer clear of using the Daily Mail as a reference in future and online news in general if it can be avoided. All the best, TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 22:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This article in The Sun (also an unreliable source) claims the operation was called Operation Renegade, not Operation Buckthorn. Some even less reliable things elsewhere (which I won't even link) claim the operation was called Buckthorn but the helicopters' callsigns were Renegade-1, -2 etc. The trouble with all these low quality publications citing "sources" of their own is that it turns into Chinese whispers - it doesn't need anyone to be lying or making stuff up, but rumours and misunderstandings get repeated as "facts" until they end up here (see Circular reporting#Circular reporting on Wikipedia) and we give them the imprimatur of legitimacy that The Sun doesn't. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk18:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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