The MV Iran Deyanat. Photo from Maritime News Russia.

[H/t: Cheat-Seeking Missiles]

I meant to link to this the other day after reading Laer’s post at C-SM and was reminded of it again after seeing it also on Ace today. From Shirat Devorah: Hijacked Iranian Ship was a Dirty Bomb Meant for Israel on Yom Kippur

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 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.

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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.

News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. and they witnessed some of the deaths due to exposure to ‘something on that ship.’

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Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. 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. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea.. It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.

The reason for this blockade would be to prevent any more Iranian ships with deadly cargos from attacking either Israel or other targets from the sea.

Laer wrote:

If this is true and Iran had pulled it off, it would have been impossible for the Tehraniacs to avoid blame for the attack, and the Chinese would have been hard pressed to avoid accusations of knowingly abetting the plot. I’ve always felt that if (when) Iran gets the bomb, it will be delivered via intermediaries to Israel for detonation, not atop an Iranian missile because I thought plausible deniability was important to the Tehraniacs.

Apparently I was wrong, and they’re crazier than I thought.

Ace looked at this story and concludes:

Although this all seems patently absurd, so did 9/11. While liberals will all laugh at the cowardly chicken little conservatives, the difference between us seems that we can imagine the possibility of the next 9/11, whereas they can barely even acknowledge the last one.

And here’s the thing: We must have paid off the pirates to have ourselves a sneaky-peek at this ship by now.

Assuming we did that, why is there no statement from the US that the cargo is harmless whatsits or the like?

The Drawn Cutlass has an opinion on why this story isn’t getting any attention from the MSM.

This story is under tight wraps, it isn’t getting coverage at all. There’s another Somali pirate story, the ship with the tanks aboard, and this isn’t that ship. If this story was covered by the MSM it would doom Obama’s chances at being elected, because the electorate would turn to McCain in a nuclear war situation. The MSM, which would normally jump at the chance to reveal a story that the administration is keeping under wraps, has its own reasons to spike this story.

Things like this must be kept fully in mind when you cast your vote for President on 11/4. We all can imagine how John McCain would react to something like this if, God forbid, Iran or another Jihadist entity were to launch a successful attack on our ally, Israel. One can only speculate on what a President Obama would do, and the best guess is that he would think about it — a whole lot! — and then what?

Exactly . . .

It’s all a story that would do Tom Clancy proud. Wait a sec. Clancy’s Jack Ryan novel Debt of Honor — about a 747 being crashed into the Capital building during the State of the Union Address — was published way back in 1994, 11 7 years before 9/11!

Uh Oh!

“Calling John McCain! President John McCain . . .”

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