OK, Dave — this one’s for you!

A couple of days ago I got an email form Shirat Devorah with an update on that Iranian ship that was being held captive by Somali pirates. The Brian Harring article declares that the ship WAS a dirty bomb that was going to target Israel on Yom Kippur. Did you read about it in the MSM? Didn’t think so . . . (nuttin’ but crickets chirping over at AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, LAT, etc.)

“October 10, 2008 Armed Somalia pirates on Friday released three Indians and 26 other members of the crew on board a hijacked cargo ship after keeping them in captivity for more than one and half months. ….The ship MV Iran Deyanat, carrying 40,000 tonnes of iron ore en route from China to Netherlands, was hijacked on the Red Sea by Somali pirates on August 22.” 80 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen.

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An American-based website, http://www.longwarjournal.org/ strongly pro-U.S. Department of Defense initially discussed this on September 22 but, like the DoD, has had nothing to say about it since, and this in spite of an enormous flood of commentary on the internet that never somehow seemed to filter its way downward to any aspect of the American media. After her capture and removal to a Somali port, the Deyanat’s cargo containers were broken into by the pirates in search of loot.

The result? Sixteen of them died of extreme radiation poisoning.

Once this bizarre and frightening information emerged, a blackout was imposed inside the United States and from the date of capture until today, not one word of this has ever been seen in or on the American media.

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The ship was released by Somali pirates on October 10, after a $250,000 cash bribe was paid by the U.S. Navy for her release. The MV Iran Denyant was taken into immediate custody of a joint naval taskforce present, to include Russian and French ships. Crew members had all been interrogated and all of them, deemed “uninformed of the ship’s course or cargo” were duly released to their diplomatic representatives. The ship was boarded, occupied and thoroughly searched by U.S. Navy specialists but a subsequent report on the suspicious cargo containers has been heavily classified.(‘Top Secret- Galactic’)

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I have a correct copy of the ship’s real manifest that a U.S. Navy source faxed me about two hours ago. There was no rocket fuel on board. Her cargo contained “a significant quantity” of radioactive waste from China, in lead-lined and secured cargo containers. The ship was never boarded by anyone from the time she left Nanjing in China until the Somali pirates grabbed her. Sixteen pirates died within two weeks, of heavy radiation poisoning, and three more are expected to die. An international force consisting of American, Russian, French and Dutch ships were involved in blockading the ship and preventing her from leaving Somalian waters.

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The entire matter has been shut up and you will never see any mention of it in any mainstream media. The matter is now considered closed.

The author goes on to speculate that the Bush administration’s desire “to open a ‘US Interest Section’ in Tehran just after the presidential elections on November 4th” is the reason that this has been totally clamped down and buried.

Me? Shoot, I don’t know — doesn’t look like any of us will for 20-50 years or so . . .

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Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has spoken — Iran would rather see Barack Obama in the White House than John McCain. Why?

We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much[.]

I think it’s because they believe that ol’ Barry will be a big ol’ pussy, rolling right over if Iran attacks Israel! At least that’s the impression VP candidate Joe Biden made the other day with his rant about a new Obama administration facing a huge International crisis within the first 6-months of taking office. The general consensus is that Joe is warning all of us that Barack will blink and try to talk his way out of a conflict with ol’ Mahmoud and the Mullahs instead of kickin’ some Iranian ass!

Haaretz is reporting that Iran has warned foreign diplomats in London that senior officials in Tehran are leaning toward a preemptive attack on Israel. Maybe that is what ol’ Slow Joe was referring to — and telling us not to get too terribly upset when Obama turns the other cheek; when he turns away from Israel to avoid a larger conflict with Iran.

A third hot front in the war with radical Islam we sure don’t need, but unless you’ve never paid any attention to history, ignoring someone that is lobbing attacks your way isn’t the way to make them stop — unless you simply surrender. Hmmm, that’s what Obama has been recommending us doing in Iraq. See a pattern yet?

President John McCain won’t let Iran get away with an attack on Israel without paying a heavy price and the whole world knows that to be a fact. Therefore, if McCain is elected Iran more than likely won’t dare to attack Israel on his watch. No one in the world knows anything about how a President Obama would react except that his rhetoric to date strongly indicates that he wouldn’t.

See a pattern yet? Doah!

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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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Laer over at Cheat-Seeking Missiles has been real busy today so I’ll excerpt and link to a couple of his goodies.

First, if you missed it on Face The Nation yesterday like I did, General Wesley Clark — at the time a Barack Obama ‘mouthpiece’, intimated that John McCain’s military career didn’t make him qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. Laer responded to Clark’s lambasting of McCain:

What a sterling condemnation of … Barack Obama. What does being a Socialist organizer in Chicago do to prepare Obama for president? How much executive experience did he gain as an abortion hawk in the Illinois Senate? And in his 143 days on the US Senate floor?

Yeah! 143 days with nothing to show for it, a bunch of South-side Chicago political wheelings & dealings trumps riding a fighter jet, being a prisoner of war and commanding a naval air wing, huh General?

Never mind, though. Obama promptly threw the General under the bus! Man, it’s gotta be gettin’ crowded under there.

I caught the blurb on Drudge last night that President Bush was livid over a story in The New Yorker that would again expose the details of a classified program in our war on terror — or as Seymour Hersh puts it, “the President’s war on terror” — not any of us involved, natch — just ol’ BushCo at it again.

I’ll have to agree with Laer again:

Sedition, thy name is Seymour Hersh.

The Liberal elites don’t get it at all, and they don’t respect anything about the military. In fact, their behavior shows that they fear our own government and those sworn to protect it more than they fear those striving to obtain nuclear weapons in order to kill us in mass.

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[Update: Today's article in Reuters puts my little musing of yesterday in a sharper focus.]

I think of things while in the shower. Like this moring, I was thinkin’ that in just a few more weeks the eyes of the world will be on the new Olympic stadium in Bejing as the athletes march in the opening ceremony. Heads of state from all over the world will be there, including President Bush and one would assume the highest ranking of the Chinese Communists. All the high-ranking al Queda operatives and planners could possibly be thinking as they watch and read about the 2008 Olympics is, “What a target rich environment — Oh ya betcha!” When I got that far in my mind, my inner Tom Clancy decided it was time for a little channeling o’ the Okie . . .

“No, it wouldn’t be easy, maybe not even possible, but if one could pull this off, Allah would be most pleased and the virgins would be non-stop — even to the point where a faithful man would have to consider asking for them to stop, or maybe slow it down a bit. But, one would have to have faith that if there would be so many of them that the stamina would also be provided. What other payment would suffice the success of such a demonstration of the power of Allah? The time to dream is over, time to act. The torch has reached the platform and in mere moments the Olympic flame will be lit — and then the flame of cleansing will follow. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! . . . It is time.”

The last thing that anyone in the Olympic Stadium saw was the Olympic flame coming alive followed by a searing beyond-white light — microseconds later no one in the immediate area was alive, actually no one was anything at all except for vaporized and burned at the molecular level. Televised images of the Olympic Opening Ceremony from inside the Olympic village ceased immediately, those from remotes within a few miles went black seconds later — only those from far away that had satellite links showed what had to have been a nuclear blast. Spy satellites confirmed this and that knowledge set off a second chain of events.

The Chinese military immediately began looking for the likely culprit — surely this had to have come from Russia, or the U.S., probably Russia. Not England, or France. Pakistan? India? Not likely, but have to admit, close. North Korea? No.

Most of all, must save face. Who to strike? Eenie. Meenie. Miney. Mo.

The Russians saw it coming but with little time to decision make, let alone act. “Punch the Button comrades . . . punch ALL the buttons!”

Washington had more time, and the ballistic missile defense system saves San Francisco. Lucky them . . . The President gone, the east coast soon to be history — what to do? Launch ‘em ALL! Let God sort it out.

The Israelis weren’t stupid. Western Europe and America were never going to help, never going to be able to help, not in this or the next generation’s lifetimes. The Arabs and the Persians would descend upon God’s people and finish what the Nazi’s started decades ago. It really wasn’t a decision to make, it was fate, and destiny, and if God was willing — self preservation.

They launched ‘em ALL! No more Saudi oilfields and refineries. No more Iraqi oil. No more Arabic capitals. No more Iranian nuclear threat. No more much of anything . . .

Needless to say, what would be left of the world, and the world’s economy, wouldn’t be a very fun place to be. We don’t really understand the environmental fallout of pumping that much radioactive matter into the atmosphere, but one wouldn’t be able to put up an argument that what followed wasn’t man-caused Climate Change. This time, that moniker would fit.

If I were even remotely as talented at Robert Ferrigno this would be a great place to start a story. I’m not — so let’s hope we never have to live it to find out what happens . . .

Gee, Barack’s forthcoming soul buddy and anticipated dinner companion, (Hey, let’s talk Jack), ol’ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again, threatening the end of the state of Israel and the United States. Breitbart reports:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.

“I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene,” he said.

“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”
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“I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed,” he said to a group of foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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“With the appearance of the promised saviour… and his companions such as Jesus Christ, tyranny will be soon be eradicated in the world.”

In your dreams, dude! Of course, Obama is promising to make dreams come true . . . let’s hope this isn’t one of them, even if just by rank stupidity and the willingness to appease. Someone needs to tell ol’ Barack that it’s much easier to “negotiate” with a loaded Colt on your belt than it is being bound with a scimitar at your neck.

Peace through strength, baby! Peace through strength.

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