Capitalism isn't so bad is it, my pet.
Posted on 04/17/2012 7:43:18 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Question 4: What’s Russia’s connection here?
Or is that so obvious a question (and answer) that it needn’t be discussed?
Go to this website (or one of the several others like it)
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100
Search for ‘Atlantic Cruiser’
And you can watch it get closer and closer to port.
Watched the Thor Liberty go through the Panama canal a few months ago on its way to S. Korea. with those Patriot Missiles.
PING
How can the State Dept unilaterally "waive" rules (laws) set by the Senate?
Why didn't the Senate blow its top over the Executive Branch ignoring it?
We are in a post-Constituional America.
Syria is a long time client state of Russia’s. Russia gets influence in the heart of the Middle East and port services on the other side of the Bosphorus (though less so, I think, since the Soviet State broke apart). Lots of $$ in arms as well.
Capitalism isn't so bad is it, my pet.
May be my favorite commercial of all time. Check it out on YouTube. You can see dogs sitting around a table playing poker in the background at the very beginning.
The miniature giraffe kiss was a stroke of genius. Who knows why it works? It just does.
Interesting. Now it’s drifting around DIW off the NE coast of Cyprus and listing its next port as Iskenderun, Turkey, ETA 18 Apr. Trying to get fuel again?
Speaking of this web page and Iran, saw on gCaptain.com the other day a Rueters article that says most of Iran’s tanker fleet has turned off their AIS in order to hide where they are sending their oil exports.
Atlantic Cruiser is being towed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskenderun and will be searched later today.
Per #3 it is moored in Iskenderun now.
Syria-Bound Ship Suspected of Carrying Weapons Manifests Civilian-Purpose Explosives
Captain of a German-owned vessel which docked on a port in southern Turkey for security search on suspicions that it carried weapons to Syria has said the ship’s cargo included “civilian-purpose explosives and equipment for a coal plant project.”
A team with the Turkish gendarmery was searching the Antigua & Barbuda-flagged Atlantic Cruiser for suspected weapons, munitions and military equipment.
The ship’s Ukrainian captain presented the cargo manifest which included 313 tons on civilian-purpose explosives, fuse and capsules destined for six different Turkish receivers as well as a separate pack of 31-ton civilian-purpose explosives headed for Croatia. The list also shows the ship carried 68 tons of oil-refinery equipment for Russia as well as 945 tons of parts of a coal plant project bound for Syria’s Tartus port.
That’s what the list said.
What was in the hold?
Yes, that is the question; was it false alarm or not?
Somehow I expect the inspector’s wallet is thicker now.
Perhaps not in this case. You may take a look on this short video from the inspection : http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/2/31083/0/1/silah-yuklu-gemi-iskenderun-da.aspx
However, no juicy info yet.
Any new info? This http://www.haberoku.net/guncel/tutuklu-vekil-zirvesi-27660.html indicates that it is on top of the agenda.
“According to the Turkish authorities, no weapons for Syria were found in the containers on board, and the loading papers for the ship were also presented correctly, according to the Turkish authorities,” a spokesman for the German Economics Ministry in Berlin said.
On Wednesday, Emden-based Reederei Bockstiegel also announced that no weapons had been found on the ship. The company also sent journalists copies of the official documents produced by the Turkish authorities after they completed the inspection of the ship. The firm said the freighter ship would be reloaded and depart from Iskenderun on Thursday on its way to Montenegro.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,829769,00.html
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