Posted on 06/18/2012 4:06:00 PM PDT by Nachum
A Russian ship believed to be carrying helicopters and missiles for Syria has been effectively stopped in its tracks off the coast of Scotland after its insurance was cancelled at the behest of the British government.
The British marine insurer Standard Club said it had withdrawn cover from all the ships owned by Femco, a Russian cargo line, including the MV Alaed.
"We were made aware of the allegations that the Alaed was carrying munitions destined for Syria," the company said in a statement. "We have already informed the ship owner that their insurance cover ceased automatically in view of the nature of the voyage."
British security officials confirmed they had told Standard Club that providing insurance to the shipment was likely to be a breach of European Union sanctions against the Syrian regime.
They said they were continuing to monitor the ship, which has been the subject of a fierce international row since US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week revealed it was adding to the arsenal of weaponry available for Mr Assad to use against rebellious Syrian towns.
"We have various ways of keeping track of this ship and that is what we are doing," a source told The Daily Telegraph.
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What is to keep the ship from sailing without insurance?
Agree. I think we’d better take a closer look at who we, the US, claims to be supporting this time.
Probably the torpedo boats that are just out of the picture frame...
if true, did our Military overthrow zer0?
You wouldn’t have heard much.....just Putin telling Obama what he was or wasn’t going to do. Obama is scared stiff of Putin.
I think the ships can’t enter port if they
are uninsured.
That’s funny!
Nothing. AFAIK, the insurance comes into play if the ship has to make port. I doubt the Syrians are going to turn down the helicopters because the ship doesn’t have insurance. As long as the ship can make it to Syria without stopping at an intermediate port, there’s nothing the EU can do short of trying to board the ship at sea.
I’m curious about the whereabouts of the Kuznetsov and her escorts.
Can’t the Russians or even the Syrians just self insure?
Thanks for the ping. Damned interesting. No real air routes unless the Russkies could fly the helos over Turkey.
Spot on!
Yep.
All Putin needs to do is indemnify the ship's owner. Russia can self-insure.
It is a strange sensation, rooting for the Russians. This is what it's come to with Obama's Arab Spring and its anti-Christian, anti-Israel subtext.
Thanks!
Meanwhile the US administration supports the Muslim Brotherhood !
The Russians want to help stop the Islamo-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood while the Brits want to help protect it!
Perfidious Albion strikes again!
If you are rooting for the Russians over England, you need your citizenship revoked.
The Russians support Iran... worse than the muslim brotherhood.
Good going Zero. You just started WWIII.
Hitlery has all the dem stones in a lockbox.
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