The Iranian Death Ship

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.

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.

Oh, don’t worry, Obama will sit down with the Iranians and have a serious talk with them

That will be a few weeks after he has ordered all our navel and Coast Guard vessels to immediately return to their home ports for something or another.

If a dirty bomb like that described was detonated in Chesapeake Bay, wouldn’t the prevailing winds just blow the cloud back out to sea?

Aren’t the prevailing winds on the East Coast of the USA flowing from the land towards the sea and not the other way?

"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."

The Mighty One Of Israel certainly works in mysterious ways! The All-Mighty operates in a fashion that is far above the clandestine ways of any so-called "intelligence agency." Nothing escapes his eye. That "his thoughts are not our thoughts" is certainly true.

I fully expect something like this in Boston Harbor or the Chesapeake Bay at some point, especially if Husein is the next president and refocuses Homeland Security against conservatives and Christians.

"Aren’t the prevailing winds on the East Coast of the USA flowing from the land towards the sea and not the other way?"

Mostly true in the "continental" or global view. But locally the wind can come from any direction. It often comes in from the coast (Atlantic Ocean) or from the south in the Delmarva region. I know, I live in the area. And sometimes there is no wind at all.

I have not heard anything of this in the Main Stream Media, so it must not be true.

I understand you there but I haven't heard anything to suggest the shipping hold or shipping containers were radiation shielded.

Any physicists around here would be better at opining than me but given the limited exposure of the pirates to the substance and the acuteness of the negative effects it had upon them, The hold or containers would have needed substantial shielding to keep the crew from cooking and to keep nuclear detectors from going offscale miles away.

“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.”

Not really, it depends on what the radiation type is. To me it acts like a beta emitter. Beta radiation will not pass through the steel walls of the hold and could not be sensed remotely. It explains why the crew suffered no ill effects. It is also probably not an alpha emitter, because alpha radiation will not travel but a few inches in air. For the pirates to become sick from alpha radiation, they would have to ingest the powder. It explains why no one was injured until the hold cover was opened and they looked inside. Beta will travel several feet in air. These guys got a whole body dose form a very high energy source of beta radiation

If the radiation was a gamma emitter or a neutron source, several feet of lead would be needed to shield it.

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.

The Protector of Israel bags a great twofer - Saving Israel and bringing judgment on some dad guys.

I have been asking ordinary people, ministers, and Baptist preachers since 1973 why the Creator of Heaven and Earth and the Protector of Israel put all that oil under Saudi Arabia and not one drop under Israel. Any body want to venture an answer.

Actually, there are some that think the mother of all oil fields is about 2 miles deep, in the Sodom and Gomorrah area. There are also some scripture verses that seem to indicate the Israel will one day “find” this oil. As far as why not years ago? I think it is so that didn’t get fat, lazy and self sufficient.

If the radiation was a gamma emitter or a neutron source, several feet of lead would be needed to shield it.

Thanks.

We may never find out what really happened even if McCain is elected, and you bet your IRA and mine that if SnowBami is elected, we will never find out what happened.

Don’t be so sure.

For an answer to your question, go to:

http://www.zionoil.com/

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