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Did Somali Pirate Ship Hijack A Giant Iranian Dirty Bomb?
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Posted on 10/15/2008 4:41:32 PM PDT by hecht

Two months ago the Somali Pirates Hijacked an Iranian Cargo Ship

Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore...

It sure looks like the ship was carrying something radioactive. Well now the story is getting more sinister. Reports from Russia say that the ship was to pass through the Suez Canal close and when it was near the coastal cities of Israel blow itself up to become the worlds largest dirty bomb...A Yom Kippur present for the Jewish State. Read the reports below and think about this question once again. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE US COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF RIGHT NOW, John McCain or the Community Organizer:

Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia.

On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.

The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship's hijacking. According to the U.S. Government, the company regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense. The MV Iran Deyanat departed Nanjing, China, July 28, and, according to its manifest, planned to sail to Rotterdam, where it would offload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by an unidentified “ German client”. The ship has a crew of 29 men, including a Pakistani captain, an Iranian engineer, 13 other Iranians, 3 Indians, 2 Filipinos, and 10 Eastern Europeans, stated to be Albanians.

The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. The Somali pirates attempted to inspect the ship's seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the "access codes" and could not open them. Pirates have stated they were unable to open the hold without causing extensive damage to the ship, and threatened to blow it up. The Iranian ship’s captain and the engineer were contacted by cell phone and demanded to disclose the actual nature of the mysterious “powdered cargo” but the captain and his officers were very evasive. Initially they said that the cargo contained "crude oil" but then claimed it contained "minerals." Following this initial rebuff, the pirates broke open one of the containers and discovered it to be filled with packets of what they said was “a powdery fine sandy soil” ....

Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore.

News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. and they witnessed some of the deaths due to exposure to ‘something on that ship.’

The Somali pirates initially set the ship's ransom at $2 million and the Iranian government provided $200,000 to a local broker "to facilitate the exchange." The $2 million dollar ransom agreement, which was supposedly secured on September 6th, never took place for reasons unknown. After September 10th, sanctions on IRISL were applied specifically because the company was said to engaged in illicit operations on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Serious negotiations were broken off completely. Iranian authorities subsequently denied that it agreed to the price nor had paid any money to the pirates. Nevertheless, after sanctions were applied to IRISL on September 10, Osman says, the Iranians told the pirates that the deal was off. "They told the pirates that they could not come because of the presence of the U.S. Navy." The region is patrolled by the multinational Combined Taskforce 150, which includes ships from the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Subsequently, it was disclosed that the U.S. government had offered to pay $7 million to the pirates to "receive entry permission and search the vessel." Officials in the Pentagon and the Department of State have consistently refused to comment on the situation.

The exact nature of the cargo remains officially a mystery but officials in Puntland and Baidoa are convinced the ship was carrying weapons to Eritrea for Islamist insurgents. "We cannot inspect the cargo yet," Osman said, "but we are sure that it is weapons." The US Navy (and the French and the Russians) have been hove to off the coast of Eyl, going anywhere once released, it will be seized once it gets to sea. The specific clauses that have been approved in both the UN and in Congress would allow the US Navy to seize the ship under the suspicion clause. The claims that there are weapons onboard, and the possibility there might be chemical weapons, has insured there is at the very minimum, an inspection of the ship by outside authority will be mandated. At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.

Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea.. It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been


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1 posted on 10/15/2008 4:41:32 PM PDT by hecht
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To: hecht

see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2103708/posts


2 posted on 10/15/2008 4:44:15 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: hecht
Reports from Russia say that the ship...

I'm a little skeptical of the vague source. Do we have anything more solid to go on than "reports from Russia"?
3 posted on 10/15/2008 4:45:39 PM PDT by itsPatAmerican
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Did any nation do radiological tests on the air and water near and around where the ship had sailed?

clcik-click-click??


4 posted on 10/15/2008 4:48:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: hecht

Dear God.

This story will not be reported on any msm.

Last statement from the O camp was that a terror attack was the only thing that could end O’s chances.


5 posted on 10/15/2008 4:48:25 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: hecht
I don't want either. What I want is for General Petraeus to institute a coup-de-tat. The world is much too dangerous to allow countries to be run by scheming politicians and representative democracies populated by whiners who can't see past the end of their noses.

If Petraeus had been El Presidente these past few years you can bet there would have been more than a few heads of Goldman Sachs on pikes on our nation's bridges.

We would also have gotten Bin Laden and all of his crony's by now and we wouldn't be allowing that Pakistani nuclear engineer to loll around under home confinement: I think we could find a more appropriate place to confine him such as at the bottom of a barrel of nuclear waste.

We need to get serious. Everyone should be either in the military or part of a military support group. We should all be receiving regular drilling and instructions on how to identify potential terrorists and what to do in case we discover a sleeper cell.

There are so many other ways things would be better if we were run by the disciplined and unperturbable members of our great armed forces and not the lily-livered sycophants currently occupying the Congress and the White House.

6 posted on 10/15/2008 4:50:42 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: hecht

bflr = bump for later reading


7 posted on 10/15/2008 4:53:23 PM PDT by fishtank (Vote for Palin - THEN resist McCain's RINOism. -- A good plan.)
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To: hecht

We should be able to detect radioactive or not from afar.

It’s the middle of October. Where is my October surprise?


8 posted on 10/15/2008 4:55:28 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
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To: hecht

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


9 posted on 10/15/2008 5:17:32 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: hecht

The gist of this came out weeks ago.

Since the illness reports have not been corroborated, and basically nothing has happened, I remain skeptical.


10 posted on 10/15/2008 5:20:56 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Ratta-tat-tat click click click
Ratta-tat-tat click click click

Sounds of a Somali pirate firing his AK-47 at crewmembers after they turn on a geiger-counter.


11 posted on 10/15/2008 6:47:18 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

You’re kidding, right? Surely you jest.

As much as I like General Petraeus and his accomplishments, the founding fathers structured the civilian leadership of our military for a purpose.

You are proposing a junta, right? That’s what third world countries do.

You’ve got to be pulling our legs, collectively. Tell me you’re kidding.


12 posted on 10/15/2008 6:48:53 PM PDT by ataDude
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To: ataDude
A few weeks ago I would have assured you that I am merely joking.

But I'm glad to say that I have finally drunk the Kool-Aid.

If we refuse to be ever-vigilant then Islamic jihadi terrorists will certainly kill millions with a nuclear device or via biological/chemical warfare.

We don't have the time to wait around for the Congress and Senate to express the wishes of a fickle populous and vote on things.

Bush has been very good in the way he has essentially governed as a dictator: approving torture, wiretaps, data mining, surveillance of U.S. citizens, etc. Of course he has never formally fessed up to this.

So now we have to worry about if/when Bush or some in his adminstration will go to jail or be harrassed in front of congress for something that we all know needs to be done for this country's safety.

Wouldn't it be better if we were led by a military dictator who didn't have to pretend to be supporting the Constitution while using every means possible to identify and eliminate all terrorist threats?

Wouldn't it be better if we knew that we would have the same leader ten years or even twenty years from now that we have today? We know that we are in this battle for the long haul. Why should the jihadis get to keep the same leaders why ours are subjected to the revolving door of democracy?

And all this whining about civil rights! What kind of civil rights would we have under an Islamic Caliphate or Sharia Law where Dhimmis will be treated as second or even third class citizens?

America was essentially one big militarized defense factory during WWII. Our so-called "basic liberties" were rightly thrown out the window by Lincoln during the Civil War. Why should we do any differently now that we are in a life-and-death struggle with Islamic terrorists?

13 posted on 10/15/2008 7:04:50 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: hecht

They were probably just going to dump their nuclear waste.


14 posted on 10/15/2008 9:44:35 PM PDT by Kevmo (I love that sound and please let that baby keep on crying. ~Sarah Palin)
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To: hecht; SJackson

More info on the Radioactive Death ship hijacked by Somali Pirates
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/10/iranian-death-ship.html#readfurther


15 posted on 10/17/2008 12:15:27 PM PDT by happygrl (we are all plumbers now!)
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To: SJackson
From the link above:

This story is an example of the Demonic Convergence in action: nuclear weapons, the Iranian effort to destroy Israel, Chinese complicity in international terrorism, and the Somali pirates, all rolled into one.

16 posted on 10/17/2008 12:17:45 PM PDT by happygrl (we are all plumbers now!)
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To: hecht

Say “dirty bomb” and everyone gets in a tizzy. I don’t buy into the people getting sick and some dying.


17 posted on 10/20/2008 12:08:28 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Kevmo

“They were probably just going to dump their nuclear waste.”

Forgot the sarcasm tag.


18 posted on 10/20/2008 12:39:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: taxesareforever

“I don’t buy into the people getting sick and some dying”

Why?


19 posted on 10/20/2008 12:39:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

No sarcasm intended, therefore no sarcasm tag.


20 posted on 10/20/2008 12:58:04 PM PDT by Kevmo (I love that sound and please let that baby keep on crying. ~Sarah Palin)
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