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Originally posted by northwoods
One question that everybody should think, especially those who don't believe conspiracy in Arctic Sea case. Is there any non-conspiracy answers to question, I think not.
What could be interest of group of men hijacking the old vessel which had ordinary timber cargo and demand ransoms when risk to get caught is huge?
Originally posted by da pickles
reply to post by Donny 4 million
i remember the helos . what i was refering to is that there has been no mention of them after the vesselhad been found
Originally posted by da pickles
reply to post by Donny 4 million
i remember the helos . what i was refering to is that there has been no mention of them after the vesselhad been found
Originally posted by smurfy
Northwoods posted a list of the crews names back a bit, I think it was maybe 16 in all. Does anyone know the geneology of the surnames? it could be interesting to know.
Originally posted by Voiceoftreason
Originally posted by smurfy
Northwoods posted a list of the crews names back a bit, I think it was maybe 16 in all. Does anyone know the geneology of the surnames? it could be interesting to know.
Nope, pretty much all typical Russian names.
Originally posted by northwoods
Reds Timber, the company which is shipment party on transportation from Finland to Algeria told that Arctic Sea gets new crew and refuel, don't know from where but it does not interrupt the transporting current timber cargo to Algeria. So, she continues the journey with possible new crew and is in good shape. Therefore, if this information is right we can soon see her AIS signal on screen :-) After that somewhere in September, vessel will return to Finland.
This means that only Russia investigated the crime scene which is not what Finnish, Swedish or Malta authorities want to.
New port arrivals to Bejaia Algeria is set between 29/9 - 30/9.
That is not yet in port arrivals ETA list:
www.portarrivals.com...
And what comes to hijackers, Estonian state prosecutor Lavli Lepp told last evening in local news that Russia has given details about hijackers identity to Estonia. There are 4 Estonian citizen involving and two Russian who has "permit of residence" in Estonia. So it makes 6 man from NATO country Estonia in a way or another.
[edit on 19-8-2009 by northwoods]
Considering that, according to the AIS records, the ship did not had any strange manoeuvres or delays while passing the English Channel, that could only happened after or before.
Originally posted by Gordi The Drummer
Once the hidden cargo was stripped out, at a friendly naval dockyard, (or if possible, actually on the ship, and then removed by chinooks 29/7), the Arctic Sea was returned to the west end of English Channel / off Northern France / Bay of Biscay / Cape Verde (take your pick!!).