reply to post by TrueAmerican
"Edit to add: Another thing is also the issue of satellite detection of radiation signatures. I have to wonder if they are picking up anything."
Great point! I read in one of the articles on the Ukranian ship the U.S. helicopters were flying over. By now I'm sure that they've probably flown
over the Iranian ship now with a detector.
I just posted info. on the U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic Shipping Lines which was done "after" this ship was taken.
I do not think that they would "officially" release information on the ship "if" it contains "a dirty bomb". For one thing it would be way to
vulnerable. I would think that they would want full control of it first.
In fact, I would think that the less people that know, the better. In any other incident, the info is never released until well after the fact. The
international ramifications would be staggering.
If this is the case, with the politics lately, I would think/hope it would be open to international inspection. No misunderstandings that way.
Russia is practicing with nuclear jets very close to the U.S. border. I do not know when they planned the exercise, but the timing with all of the
recent turmoil, including financial, may be significant.
One of the articles listed explosives on the ship, so if true it was ready to be rigged.