Dirty Bomb! Somali Pirates Thwart Iranian Dirty Bomb Attack on Israel?
Hijacked Iranian Ship: Dirty Bomb meant for Israel on Yom Kippur?
Cross posted from Director Blue
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Shirat Devorah researched the various articles surrounding the recent Somali hijacking of an Iranian vessel and came to an ominous conclusion.
On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.
The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) – a state-owned company [that] 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 [UN] weapons proliferation [regulations].
[The hijacked ship] was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates – 50 onboard and 50 onshore. The Somali pirates attempted to inspect the ship’s seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the “access codes” and could not open them. Pirates have stated they were unable to open the hold without causing extensive damage to the ship, and threatened to blow it up…. the pirates broke open one of the containers and discovered it to be filled with packets of what they said was “a powdery fine sandy soil” ….
Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore…
…At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.
[Russian sources claim she] was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.
Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel.
Fox News interviewed an expert whose analysis would seem to confirm these conclusions:
Chemical experts say the reports sound inconsistent with chemical poisoning, but may reflect the effects of exposure to radiation.
“It’s baffling,” said Jonathan Tucker, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. “I’m not aware of any chemical agent that produces loss of hair within a few days. That’s more suggestive of high levels of radioactive waste.”
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A note from Radarsite: Is this thwarted operation the world’s first major dirty bomb attack? If these facts check out — and so far they seem fairly well substantiated — this could be the biggest story of the year. If this was in fact a thwarted dirty bomb attack by Iran on Israel, then this is nothing less than an overt act of war. What will Israel’s response to this be? What should it be? And how ironic that it should be thwarted by Somali pirates, who are now apparently its only victims.
We will be following these events very closely in these next few days. If anyone has any additional information on this whole affair please forward it to Radarsite and I will post it immediately. – rg
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Posted by Roger W. Gardner on October 12, 2008 8:39 am
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And these are the “leaders” with whom “The Anointed One” says he will have talks without preconditions almost immediately after the American voters are so stupid as to elect.
And of course, the MSM is all over this story, just as they have been with the facts behind “The Anointed One”, all over it with a blanket of silence.
You are full of hooey! How many phoney blogs are you running? What a bunch of hot air. Your fantasies are clever, though. Your ideas?
This is a good example of why religeon and politics make a bad mix. Get a life. Ha, ha, ha!
Dear fighting vehicle, Jewish pig:
This is a good example of why religeon and politics make a bad mix. Get a life. Ha, ha, ha!
Apparently, spell checking and history are a bad mix for you.
It is truly beyond irony that the scourge of west Africa (pirates in this case) forgot to check with Obama…er, I meant Osama, before putting a crowbar to a gift from AhMadDinnerJihad.
Providence?
Maybe.
I hope for Darwin prizes for the whole lot of them.
Mike in Chi
“Darwin prizes for the whole lot of them.”
The 72 Virgins Dating Service?
I don’t care who ya are, thats funny right there. Apologies to Larry the Cable Guy. That is the sort of thing that sends me of to bed with a smile on my face.
A thwarted dirty bomb attack can always be spun as a “faked” incident. As irrational as it is the media will give lots of energy to promoting the idea that Israeli and American spies in Iran did this knowing that they could get partners in the Somali pirate community to pretend to it. When our media is capable of airing 9-11 conspiracy documentaries with a straight face in the name of “objectivity” anything is possible. It is October 18th and most people I know have barely heard of the radiation in the ship, let alone the dirty bomb possibility. The ship may be out to sea now if what I read recently is true.
Unless a plot like this is actually successful it will be completely ignored and if it is successful it will only result in some phony outrage from most people followed by a “they wouldn’t have done this without legitimate grievances” qualification. In the event of mass migration of radiation poisoned and panicking Israelis the media will start to worry about boarder control issues.
BTW is there any information on the “Russian sources”? How highly placed were they? Putting America and Israel in the position where there too little evidence to convince the international community but too much evidence to ignore the possibility would probably tickle Putin’s funny bone.
I don’t trust the government and right now I don’t trust the media either. They are all a bunch of lying spin doctors playing political games to get their own needs met. Is this all possible, sure. Perhaps the Somali pirates are hired by the U.S. government or some other government to attack ships and look through them. I think I’d believe that more. Especially, because if I remember right there was a ship that was being watched closely (my guess the same one the pirates took). Interesting that it worked that way an a little more than a mere concidence if you ask me.