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I've heard rumours that the vessel was carrying weapons from Russia to Iran, and that the 'pirates' were recruited by the Mossad (Israeli secret service) to interrupt the trade.
Source:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418676474&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Which, sends us here
Did Mossad hijack Russian ship to stop Iran arms shipment?
The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported over the weekend that the vessel Arctic Sea had been carrying x-55 cruise missiles and S300 anti-aircraft rockets hidden in secret compartments among its cargo of timber and sawdust.
Pravda's Web site reported that the ship had been smuggling cruise missiles to Iran on a well-worn path via Algeria, but a "power that has relations with Ukraine" had prevented this. Novaya Gazeta reported that the hijackers had been operating on behalf of the Mossad. It also reported that President Shimon Peres's visit to Moscow the day after the Russians recaptured the vessel had been motivated by an urgent request to his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to refrain from arming Iran.
Israeli officials dismissed the reports as "classic conspiracy theories," but defense experts noted that Israel has a record of seizing foreign vessels carrying arms to its enemies.
"This appears as the classic conspiracy theory. I didn't see any evidence for it and so we aren't going to comment," said Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
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I'm pretty sure that the Israeli reputation for seizing foreign freight involves Israel doing it themselves, not them hiring clowns to do it for them.
I could swallow a story about the US hiring clowns to seize a freighter for them, but Israel would do it themselves.
Not true Gary.
Quite a few Mossad operations involved recruiting (or posing as) foreigners to do the work.
Case in point, the Cherbourg Project.
The Israeli agents masqueraded as Norwegians to take the boats.
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