Is anyone out there? I find this to be extremely alarming. In fact, it makes me wonder what other ships may be sailing with such a cargo. The timing with all of the Oct. 7 predictions is rather surprising, at least to me. I'm generally not one to go in for all of this alarmist crap. This time with the financial failure of the U.S. and completely illegal actions of our so called "gov. of the people" trashing our constitution. I'm not only paying attention, but preparing. My family and I are confirmed, practicing "grasshoppers", not ants; so that's saying something. God bless all Americans, let's all pray together, whatever your religion.

This has been in the news for several days. Why hasn't the ship been boarded and searched? Certainly the Somali pirates are no match for any nation's military.

But the theory that this was a dirty bomb aimed at Israel is very intriguing and troublesome. What has Israel said about this?

Motive, people, motive.

Israel is known to have dozens, if not hundreds, of nukes. They are well known for the "Sampson Option". Should Iran detonate even a dirty bomb, it would most assuredly mean the end of their civilization.

Exactly what motive do they have to do such a thing? Remember, with a dirty bomb, NO ONE can occupy the land.

Iran in 1952 was PRO WEST, and a first world country. Please look up WHY they turned "anti-west". It may surprise you. Here's a hint: It all started with the Shah.

My understanding is it's a Russian cargo ship with a whole bunch of Russian military stuff on it and apparently our ships are the closest so we have them surrounded and the Russians on on their way and the Somali Gov't such as it is has given us the oky doky to shoot the hell out of them (the Pirates not the Russians) if we need(want) to

It's been news, but not with the updated Russian rumour. Plus, if one looks at a map of the middle east, the route is very ominous. One of the strangest things about it is the silence. Not another update, until this one.

Israel has been very vocal of late about cutting off the strait. Seems obvious, now.

Another rather disturbing change is that since Iran began denying their ransom, Ahmadinijad has been keeping a very tight lid on his Israel "disappearing" outbursts.

It appears to me that instead of the Ukranian shipment being the center of all of the attention, it's the Iranian ship that is the real target. There are some very good "intelligence" sites out there, yet not one has been listing info on the ship.

The entire incident seems far more alarming than the first 3 articles.

This has got to be a level one NATO emergency. For the life of me I don't understand why they haven't either blown it out of the water or mass boarded it.

They are holding an ace card. My guess is that they have already offloaded a sizeable amount.

or its a ship carrying cehmicals for reprocessing , or it was giant condoms filled with coke or in fact no one really knows


except teh PIRATE leader who might well have killed his own men then tried to blame *insert random country* as they have done in the past.

This whole story has been confirmed by the most senior merchant captain in the U.S. and that he got it from the Siemens aid workers in Somalia. I think that they want someone to sail this thing out to sea where they can just sink it. They don't know if it is rigged to blow somehow and sending Seals into that kind of situation is not a good option yet.

If they wanted to take it they could but if someone has a remote detonator then it could get ugly.

One would think that if this were true that Israeli commandos would have taken it by now.

Now then, what's missing here?........ Oh Yes!, that's it, a complete lack of any evidence other than innuendo, rumour and completely unsubstantiated reports from anonymous sources. Must be true then!

Seriously, what a complete and utter load of nonsense. How in the hell would an Iranian ship get anywhere near the Israeli ports / coast without being blown out of the water far offshore? Then you have to consider the wind conditions being just right to blow the irradiated matter towards the right part of the Israeli shoreline, not a Palestinian part.

The whole idea is just so harebrained and full of holes it's funny. It'd be easier to pack a ship with HE and scrap metal and detonate it in port. at least then it'd have some effect, whereas this dirty bomb idea would be unlikely to succeed.
Even IF the ship made it into an Israeli port and detonated, the likely spread of radioactive material would be so thinly spread it'd probably be less harmful than a series of dental XRays.

Then there's the fact that Israel, probably with US help, would launch a nuclear strike against Iran and wipe out tens, if not hundreds of thousands in retaliation.

I can't remember the thread, but I do recall reading the news that Somali pirates had died with 'nuclear-type injuries' had been debunked, and people where fired over it.

Believe what you want to offcourse.. if you love living in fear, knock yourself out.. but I urge you to delve into the matter at greater lenght and not just basing your world view based on one snippet of news?

I do not know what really happened there but i see no reason for Iranians to do this. Not only Israel will be damaged - also Egypt, Jordan,Saudi Arabia,Palestinian autonomy. The water passage is near all of those countries. Iran of course has tense relationships with almost all of those countries but this is a little too much. And to do it from Iranian ship.... I do not think that Iranian planners are stupid/ inadequate.
Even if Ahmadinejad wants this war to start for religious reasons, it is much better for him that it will be started with Israeli strike. Not Iranian terror attack. He got Hizbollah to do this kind of job anyway.