Pet Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Missing+iArctic+Seai+cargo+vessel+pursued+by+rumours+and+Russian+Navy/1135248485958 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8202308.stm http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090818/155841124.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/04/russia.missing.ship.journalist/ http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8235647.stm?ad=1 http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE57O52E20090825 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3771296,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Arctic_Sea TL;DR - Finnish-owned freight ship hijacked in European Unions waters, found off African coast, "mysterious" motifs of hijacking, allegedly carrying illegal firearms, journalist threatened for writing about it, flees country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Yeah, you conspiracy heads should take a look at this as this one is real. The issue of nuclear is being thrown around a lot in connection with this ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I agree. This is weird and scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pet Posted September 6, 2009 Author Share Posted September 6, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6823300.ece The ship carried missiles for the Iranian army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 There's a few problems with that article. The visit to Sochi by Peres was always going to happen and was announced well before the ship was hijacked. Criminals don't have access to S-300s. That system is one of the world's leading anti air systems (another thing that the article gets wrong is that it is not Russia's most advanced systems, that would be the S400) and is tightly controlled by the Kremlin. Lastly, supplying the system has been an issue between Israel and Russia (as well as the US). The deal is that Russia won't sell the S300 to Iran (which would then protect their nuke prog from an Israeli air strike) as long as Israel stops providing arms and training to Georgia and arms to Ukraine. If Russia did allow the Iranians to get a hold of the S-300s the whole political-defense balance of the world right now would shift quite drastically. I doubt this would be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twonpoo Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 sounds like shinanagans at the highest levels. Read between the lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo-f Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 So, what do you see between the lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 God Damn spambots! That's what you get for robot liberation ! Oh well... Any concluding thoughts about the hijack? I think Russian military held the crew hostage for a mighty long time. Set them free, though, instead of sending them camping to gulag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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