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2009-08-26 Europe

Kremlin Suggests Hijacked Ship Held 'More Than Just Lumber'

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Posted by Steve White 2009-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Drugs wouldn't necessitate a bulkhead makeover:

The official version of events was questioned by Yulia Latynina, a leading Russian opposition journalist and commentator. "The Arctic Sea was carrying something, not timber and not from Finland, that necessitated some major work on the ship," she wrote in the Moscow Times newspaper on Wednesday.

During two weeks of repair works in the Russian port of Kaliningrad just before the voyage, the ship's bulkhead was dismantled so something very large could be loaded, she wrote.

"To put it plainly: The Arctic Sea was carrying some sort of anti-aircraft or nuclear contraption intended for a nice, peaceful country like Syria, and they were caught with it," she said.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-26 12:35|| 2009-08-26 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 i remember an article saying that the ship was recently modified by moving a bulk head or something so it could carry someting bigger...

Posted by mister sleepy 2009-08-26 13:07|| 2009-08-26 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Who in his right might would be shipping heroin *from* Russia? That rather seems like shipping oil from the American Northeast - the locals are enthusiastic consumers in their own right.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-08-26 15:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-26 15:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Russia is the major transshipment point for heroin into northern Europe, usually through Scandanavia but also through the Baltic to Germany IIRC.

Posted by lotp 2009-08-26 18:20|| 2009-08-26 18:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, it is alleged that Russia was mysteriously utiliz far more firepower = potent mil assets than needed to search for a ship carrying merely "lumber"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-08-26 19:07|| 2009-08-26 19:07|| Front Page Top

#6 "Kremlin Suggests Hijacked Ship Held 'More Than Just Lumber'"

Needs the Master of the Obvious™ graphic....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-26 19:13|| 2009-08-26 19:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, lotp, except the ship was allegedly bound for Algeria. I'd expect they get all the heroin they need from Lebanon or Turkish sources.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-08-26 19:45|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-26 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Bound for Algeria and actually intending to make port in Algeria are two different things.

Posted by Pappy 2009-08-26 23:15|| 2009-08-26 23:15|| Front Page Top

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