Hijacked Iranian Ship: Dirty Bomb meant for Israel on Yom Kippur?
Posted on 10/12/2008 6:01:30 AM PDT by Roger W. Gardner
Hijacked Iranian Ship: Dirty Bomb meant for Israel on Yom Kippur?
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Shirat Devorah researched the various articles surrounding the recent Somali hijacking of an Iranian vessel and came to an ominous conclusion.
The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company [that] 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 [UN] weapons proliferation [regulations].
[The hijacked ship] 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 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...
...At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.
[Russian sources claim 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. Fox News interviewed an expert whose analysis would seem to confirm these conclusions:
Chemical experts say the reports sound inconsistent with chemical poisoning, but may reflect the effects of exposure to radiation.
"It's baffling," said Jonathan Tucker, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "I'm not aware of any chemical agent that produces loss of hair within a few days. That's more suggestive of high levels of radioactive waste." -------------------------------------------------------------------
A note from Radarsite: Is this thwarted operation the world's first major dirty bomb attack? If these facts check out -- and so far they seem fairly well substantiated -- this could be the biggest story of the year. If this was in fact a thwarted dirty bomb attack by Iran on Israel, then this is nothing less than an overt act of war. What will Israel's response to this be? What should it be? And how ironic that it should be thwarted by Somali pirates, who are now apparently its only victims. We will be following these events very closely in these next few days. If anyone has any additional information on this whole affair please forward it to Radarsite and I will post it immediately. - rg
It would make Iran even less happy.
Can you imagine the response from Israeli's with only a few days to live as they watched their families die? The US would probably join in the retaliation IMO.
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and so it begins...
Unless the pictures were not taken in sequence. Maybe the one at the dock is an old publicity still???
Just a shipment of Chinese milk additive. Probably headed for Darfur.
It sure looks like somebody's on the case!!!!!
ok, then why is it included in the article? and why isn’t it attributed as such?
all i am suggesting is that this report is propaganda.
and amateur propaganda at that.
and amateur propaganda at that.
Cause, goodness knows, Iran would never do such a thing.
Seems like increasing numbers of folks are
whistling by the grave yard . . .
by Hitler's reviewing stand . . .
by the new Dacau's . . .
by the growing piles of EVIDENCE PROOF . . . that the ruthless nastiness of the Old Boy's Club is becoming more and more brazenly open.
PIRATE SHIP -read
To those who asked for further links to this ongoing story — especially that purported Russian Intel — I put all the links I have in my article.
I am not positing this story as true. I have no idea whether it is true or not. I doubt if any of us here do. But I am going to continue posting the info as it comes in. If some object to this, just don’t read it.
Roger G.
Radarsite
Kinda reminds me of the Palermo Senator incident a few years back.
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