Posted on 10/18/2008 2:37:56 PM PDT by hecht
The Iranian Death Ship by Baron Bodissey
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.
Remember the Iranian ship that was hijacked off the coast of Somalia a few weeks ago? Pirates who came into contact with the unidentified cargo of the ship became seriously ill, and since then sixteen of them have died of what appears to be radiation poisoning.
Now an account of what happened has been patched together: the Iranian ship was loaded with radioactive sand from China, and was en route to the Suez Canal and then the Mediterranean. The goal was to blow it up off the coast of Israel and send a lethal radioactive cloud over the Jewish state during Yom Kippur. Had it not been for the Somali free-lancers, there’s no telling what might have happened.
Here’s the account from Shirat Devorah, via Pat Dollard:
Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur
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 article goes on to say that warships from Russia, the USA, France, and other countries are waiting off the coast of Somalia to make sure that the ship doesn’t resume its travels without a close inspection.
Russian intelligence does not believe that the ship was bound for Eritrea, however: - - - - - - - - -
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 loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.
If all this is true, Israel (and the rest of the West) has been extremely lucky so far. One of these days our luck is going to run out, however, and a murderous plan like this one will be successfully executed.
An evil plan that sounds like something a James Bond villian would come up with ... and then thwarted by pirates? What an amazing tale, if it all checks out.
Oh, don’t worry, Obama will sit down with the Iranians and have a serious talk with them about this, and finally agree it was the Jews’ own fault!
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Very scary, and we will probably never know the reality.
The Mossad will know. If this is true, there is no way Iran will survive if that One is elected. Israel will take Iran out to save its people.
If it checks out. Unlikely btw. When the Iranians finally do nuke Israel or the US they’ll do it in a way that they can deny they did it. Since this boat is registered to Iran, it makes the whole story fail.
God even uses pirates to protect his people.
I thought the ship with the tanks and arms for Eritrea was a Ukranian ship and the one with the radioactive sands was the Iranian ship. There have been a lot of confusing reports coming out of the Somalian pirate stories.
The Iranian oil goes to the Chinese while the Chinese inform the Israelis and the Israelis sell a honey pot to the Somalis. Until the dirty bomb is secured and rendered harmless, this is almost a “victimless” crime.
But, it should have never happened in the first place.
Actually it was a conspiracy between George Bush, Isreal, and the Pubbies. This was hatched to defeat THE ONE NEXT PRESIDENT!
barbra ann
Horsehockey! They are blantantly threatening Israel with every news conference coming out of Teheran. Why in the world would they care about it being traced to them? The important issue was that it was supposed to be clandestine up to the moment it exploded and then Teheran would be thumping its chest to show they are the leaders of the Islamic world. Funny how the lawless pirates which Teheran is in some was funding their leaders did the deal in. Just perfectly ironic. God is in control if we would just listen and watch a bit closer as a nation.
We should blow it in place. Get rid of the ship and the pirots at the same time.
What is also curious is if it was indeed a dirty bomb, who was going to detonate it and were the unwary crew to be sacrificed?
Raises almost more questions than it answers, as usual. If China was the origin of the hot sand, I wonder what they were thinking.
If I remember correctly it was last month Iran was frothing at the mouth about Israel’s coming doom and they have been very quiet these last couple of weeks.
Also I have heard about this ship for awhile but its been constantly shuffled to the last page so to speak.
Now that its being more revealed was this the only attempt? I would think Iran would have a dual plan or contingency if one was revealed, and this could also be a clever diversion.
Could there be an identical situation right now elsewhere?
In Britain maybe? There was an alert, was it something real?
And could this happen off of any American seaport city?
I can just imagine something like this detonating in Chesapeake bay, that could quite literally disrupt navel operations at the least not to mention the hysteria and panic, or someplace like Tampa Bay Florida, the winds could blow all that dust into several populated theme parks almost immediately with little or no time for evacuations.
Iran needs to be taught an abrupt massive lesson on surviving in the modern age right now, they threaten the whole planet literally.
On the other hand, there is one thing even Satan cannot control. Human sin. (It pisses him off to no end.
The way the hold was described, if half true, this ship would be so hot that it would have a broken geiger counter miles away sounding like an am radio in a nighttime thunderstorm.
How many more must Iran get to murder?
Boat from Iran, clandestine up to the moment it exploded. Listen to what you just said, and remember that the US Navy, not to mention the Israeli Navy know pretty much every ship on the ocean at all times with satellite surveillance. You’re the one making a mistake.
Ultimately, if true, a dirty bomb is a psychological weapon that preys on the public’s irrational fear of radiation.
I have not heard anything of this in the Main Stream Media, so it must not be true.
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