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16 pirates died after handling substance on captured Iranian ship
World Tribune ^ | 22 Oct 08 | Unknown

Posted on 10/23/2008 3:47:03 PM PDT by LSUfan

LONDON — An Iranian ship captured by Somali pirates carried sealed containers of a powdery substance believed to be nuclear or chemical weapons agents.

Western intelligence agencies have been monitoring the capture of the Iran Deyanat, seized by Somali pirates on Aug. 21. The cargo ship, owned and operated by the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, or IRISL, contains sealed cargo thought to be linked to the death of 16 pirates.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bioterrorism; chemicalweapons; iran; irandeyanat; jihad; maritime; nucleariran; somalipirates; terrorism; wmd; yomkippur
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To: yazoo

The danger with this thinking though, is to forget as these people age, or get closer to losing the last hopes they have to get their names written into Allah’s history books, the more likely they are to do something REALLY REALLY stupid.

“I’m not trying to rationalize the behavior of islamo terrorists, but of Iran.”

And fwiw, IMO Iran IS Islamo-terrorism!


101 posted on 10/24/2008 6:51:33 PM PDT by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: yazoo

Think.


102 posted on 10/25/2008 6:58:39 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I can't vote for a guy who's name sounds like my cat puking up a hairball. Baaarrraaaacccck!)
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To: Safetgiver

Why don’t you just tell me.


103 posted on 10/25/2008 9:35:27 AM PDT by yazoo
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