Pirates Die Strangely After Taking Iranian Ship

The Times, South Africa ^ | 09/27/2008 23:13 UTC | The Times

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A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.

Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.

Andrew Mwangura, the director of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told the Sunday Times: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship.”

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[BP2]

A continuation of this story:

Mystery surrounds hijacked Iranian ship

and this story on Sept 12:

US offers pirates $7m bribe for Iran ship entry

Makes me wonder is this is part of the makings of an October surprise...

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

bump for later

[Mamzelle]

Huh. Sounds like radiation poisoning.

[kingattax]

.."sounds like the work of davey jones"

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

This is an interesting read.

[Egon]

If this isn’t released in a year as a movie, I’ll eat my (proverbial) hat.

[corkoman]

Must be scurvy - aaarrgh.

[Oldexpat]

Bribe may butt..send the marines and navy and take the ship.
This sounds like either nuclear or chemical WMD’s.

[ripley]

“pirates die strangely after taking iranian ship.”

maybe a smoking gun proving mr. ahmajihad’s desire to blow israel off the map?

IMHO

[itsthejourney]

Seven million is a pirates ransom! Sure, the ship was merely transporting baby aspirins, right? Here's hoping we board it decked out in full hazmat.

[clintonh8r]

We need to liberate this ship from its pirate captors.

[NormsRevenge]

did the russkies slip ‘em a mickey?

gas perhaps? tsk tsk..

[kimchi lover]

Wow!

[autumnraine]

Oh my my. I have snagged that photo for later perusing/slobbering.

[Candor7]

Classic Radiation poisoning.

The pirates went into a sheilded hold.

We need to roll this up and see where it leads.

[GOPJ]

Could be radiation... could be bio or chemical. It’s not bananas, that’s for sure.

[Constitution Day]

Radiation.

[Mark was here]

As a show of good faith to Iran, we should rescue the ship from the pirates and deliver the ship to them. This is what friends are for.

[counterpunch]

[Centurion2000]

Sounds like a nice unshielded dirty bomb or maybe even an atomic weapon.