posted on Nov, 18 2008 @ 11:28 PM
This situation just continues to get worse and worse and the Kenyan government can't do anything about it.. And I honestly don't know why this
thread isn't getting more attention.
First, a few weeks ago, there was the ship laden with tanks, weapons, and god knows what ( it is said that some of the hijackers ended up dying and
had hair falling out whatever that was all about).. U.S. navy vessels guarded the ship while they waited for a Russian ship to "deal with the
situation".. But that was weeks ago and I never heard what happened.
As long as these guys are getting away with hijacking these vessels, they are going to make more and more ransom money, they are going to become
richer and richer, they are going to have better and better firepower, be better and better manned, and it will eventually get to the point where only
outside military intervention will do anything effective against these idiots.
A week after the pirates hijacked the tank and arms shipment from iran, the number of pirate-hijacked vessels off the somali coast was in the
thirties....... And god knows what it is now.. We aren't being told the whole story.. And it doesn't make any sense.
Given the weapons and firepower Russia has been selling to Venezuela lately, I wouldn't be surprised if they already have an alliance with Iran where
Iran gets paid huge sums of money from Russia to be the middle man responsible for shipping that hardware, ammunition, etc.. Iran can conduct these
shipments under the guise of private shipping companies and then have plausible deniability of they get caught shipping something they aren't
supposed to.. It lets all 3 countries of the hook and the fall guy can be the shipping company. Because of the recent sanctions put on Iran by the
International community they aren't supposed to be shipping anything involving weapons or military supplies/equipment. The only way they would be
able to get away with it is by the Iranian government using private industry to do the dirty work. That way the Iranian government could have a fall
guy if they got caught. These are some pretty slippery bastards. Every day, tensions in the strait of Hormuz gets worse. They are literally trying
to get America to slip and pull the trigger. All that Iranian aggression aimed at U.S. navy vessels could be a way of Iran producing a distraction of
sorts in order to keep the American navy occupied while they do whatever they want.
-ChriS
[edit on 18-11-2008 by BlasteR]