China has sophisticated chemical and bio engineering capability, they too wouldn't have to use an old Rust Bucket to deliver the Goods.
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| 2008-09-23 |
| A tense standoff is underway in northeastern Somalia between pirates, Somali authorities, and Iran over a suspicious merchant vessel and its mysterious cargo. Hijacked late last month in the Gulf of Aden, the MV Iran Deyanat remains moored offshore in Somali waters and inaccessible for inspection. Its declared cargo consists of minerals and industrial products, however, Somali and regional officials directly involved in the negotiations over the ship and who spoke to The Long War Journal are convinced that it was heading to Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical weapons to Somalia's Islamist insurgents. The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company run by the Iranian military that was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 10, shortly after the ship's hijacking. According to the U.S. Government, the company 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 United Nations sanctions to facilitate weapons proliferation for the Iranian Ministry of Defense. The MV Iran Deyanat set sail from Nanjing, China, at the end of July and, according to its manifest, planned to travel to Rotterdam, where it would unload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by a German client. Its arrival in the Gulf of Aden, Somali officials tell The Long War Journal, was suspiciously early. According to a publicly available status report on the IRISL Web site, the ship reached the Gulf on August 20 and was scheduled to reach the Suez Canal on August 27 - a seven day journey. "Depending on the speed of the ship," Puntland Minister of Ports Ahmed Siad Nur said in a phone interview on Saturday, "it should take between 4 and 5 days to reach Suez." |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 Iran has the capability to make lots of dangerious WMDs, but most WMDs could be delivered in an aircraft for use later or sooner. China has sophisticated chemical and bio engineering capability, they too wouldn't have to use an old Rust Bucket to deliver the Goods. Bingo I likum tu's idea! #4 China? Maybe it's |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-09-23 13:54 |
| #7 The Arc of the Covenant! |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 13:13 |
| #6 I've only heard of one thing that can burn you and make your hair fall out just from opening the door and looking at it. It was a shipping container in the middle of Siberia that a couple of hunters found a few years ago. They opened the door to see what was in it and found white ceramic discs. Turned out to be very high level nuclear waste, dumped by a sky crane, in the middle of the Siberian forest. The hunters made it home, but died very shortly after, from similar symptoms; burns and hair loss. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-23 12:18 |
| #5 where it would unload 42,500 tons of iron ore and "industrial products" purchased by a German client. The German customer sounds interesting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-23 12:16 |
| #4 China? Maybe it's their new baby formula? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-23 10:17 |
| #3 I'd never heard of insurgents wanting chemical weapons before. Seems like the kind of thing terrorists might want but insurgents? If the ship set out from China isn't it strange the Chinese have had nothing to say so far? They must have clean hands or something on this one despite their support for Sudanese thugs nearby. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 10:15 |
| #2 "Somalia pirates"... trained at NSWTC Coronado? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-23 09:28 |
| #1 I say we bag the ship. That's what we have special ops teams for. It could be anything, HEU, Ricin, VX, who knows. |
| Posted by: Flaimble de Medici8209 2008-09-23 09:21 |