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Believe it or not

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Moscow - A Russian newspaper claimed Friday that suspected pirates who
boarded the freighter Arctic Sea were actually agents of the Israeli secret
service trying to stop it smuggling arms to Iran.

According to Russian media, the Arctic Sea may have been carrying illegal
X-55 cruise missiles destined for Iran hidden among its cargo of lumber.

Men acting on the behalf of the Israeli Mossad secret service commandeered
the ship to divert the weapons away from Israel's regional enemy, the daily
Novaya Gazeta said.

Citing Moscow publicist Yulia Latynina, the daily pointed to the surprise
visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres on August 18, a day after the Arctic
Sea, which had been missing for three weeks, had been tracked down and
liberated by Russian forces off West Africa.

During his visit, Peres, who according to Latynina had no other business in
Russia, requested Moscow refrain from supplying weapons or missile defence
systems to Iran.

Russian authorities denied that the Arctic Sea had been smuggling
weapons.

Russian ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Dmitri
Rogozin, said earlier Friday that such allegations were a 'fantasy' and
'ridiculous.'

The deployment at great expense of Russian Black Sea fleet to liberate
the hijacked ship was undertaken for the sake of the 15 Russian seamen on
board and not supposed weapons, Rogozin said.

Russian authorities in Moscow on late Friday formally charged the eight
alleged hijackers with kidnapping and piracy, the Interfax news agency
reported.

The suspects include a Lithuanian, a Russian, three stateless persons,
and a Spaniard, the report said, adding that the citizenship of the two
remaining suspects had yet to be clarified.

According to official reports, the Arctic Sea was liberated from pirates
on Monday off the coast of West Africa.
According to the Russian sources, pirates took the freighter on July 24 off
the coast of Sweden.

Victor Matveev, director of Solchart Management, the shipping company that
owns the Arctic Sea freighter stated Friday that his company 'still has not
received any official information' about the ship or its crew.
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Iran...hidden weapons..lets watch the US war machine froth at the mouth now. :roll:
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Anyone shipping long tube like objects with fins beware (otherwise know as logs with branches)
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What I want to know is which Hollywood actor will play the lead role in the block buster movie?
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Last I heard was that there were suspicions the ship was carrying the Russina equivalent of Patriot ground to air missile batterries to protect Iranian Nuclear Installations.
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