So what is the real story with that Russian ship?

Its was full of Arms for Iran and was boarded by the SAS thats a known fact. I was told this from a Captain of another ship that was sailing in the same area at the time of it happening and all the captians in the same area where reporting and had seen it happen.

facts that are important and routinely ignored is sop here. this story by the way is posted by someone who in other posts this ships disapearance is somehow an evil israeli plot.
despite the story massive in terms of events of the world it was posted here to serve a very different purpose.

There is a very real reason why this is not getting a lot of press coverage, and that is the pentagon does not want it to. We have been battling the Russian front in Middle East since we re entered it in 2002, and it is slowly becoming less clandestine which is... well not good... this is the very early signs of what could be another cold war between the United States and Russia... except this time China may have a heavy hand in it as well... the real problem comes when you look at the fact that it has the very real possibility of not staying cold with the Iranian nuclear issue at the fore front.

China and Russia have also recently been partaking in joint action military games... I really wish there was more knowledge of geopolitics and strategy running around on this site... it is incredibly important and highly ignored... which is very very bad.

First of all, your story is incorrect, the ship was seized in the Baltic Sea... suggesting it would have to be Estonian pirates... it was then intercepted off the coast of Cape Verde... that is not where it was supposedly hijacked though.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGMWEnaCdQQYsfVwZJjeIVkgLzgQD9...

The actual facts of the story are a lot weirder than you might imagine.

The crew is being quarantined from the public, and after the ship was intercepted 3 heavy lift cargo planes were sent to pickup "the crew and 8 hijackers" ...

This is a quote from the AP article...

"Israeli President Shimon Peres held talks in Moscow with President Dmitry Medvedev two days after the Arctic Sea was taken by the Russian navy. He said after the meeting that Medvedev had promised to reconsider selling S-300s to Iran."

There was a jpost.com (a Jerusalem news paper) article on this, but the link seems to be having some malfunctions... thank god for Google cached sites =D

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:S6i46kcjnFkJ:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1249418644694%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull+Shimon+Peres+says+reconsider+selling+S-300s+to+Iran&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Note: You may need to either copy and past that link into your browsers navigation bar, or search Google for the the site and click on the cached link next to the article.

Search term: "Shimon Peres says consider selling S-300s to Iran"

without knowing what the true cargo was,this is just a plain wierd story

Sounds plausible. Give it 40 years and we'll know what went down.

great. once again, russians feeding the fire with weapons. damn russkies go back to what you're good at, making vodka.

It is all very weird. All I know is that I want to be in the "Falafel Mafia" because it sounds brutal and delicious.

maybe they just got drunk on vodka and steered of course

less weapons going in our out of any country is ideal especially if that country supports terror

may be that they were just fishing and waterskiing

I read it was intercepted by Israeli Musaud and that they used it to pressure the Russians to slow down their business with the Iranians.

Did the iranians just D-Block a russian shipment? haha

So if the Iranians don't have them, then who does?!

(After reading) Ah, that makes sense!