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Russian freighter goes missing - after safely escaping an alleged pirate attack.

I heard about this this morning. I've heard speculations that the company that owns it may have sunk it for the insurance money under the guise of it being "hijacked".

A timber carrying ship in the far north seems like an odd target.

I got the distinct (yet unfounded) impression that the ship was "pirated" by its own crew and the cargo subsequently bootlegged.

Wait - here we are!

I saw on yahoo a couple of days ago that there's strong evidence that this might have been a raid by Israeli special ops and the ship was containing loose old Soviet era missiles! This is reinforced by Israeli's Prime Minister making a surprise stop to Moscow and a few comments made on Estonia news networks with some of the family of one of the crew members.

So this might shape up to be a pretty damn big story.

It certainly would explain the presence of Somali pirates in Norway.

Judging by Israeli spec-ops methodology in the past, though, I'm just a touch surprised that any of the crew were left alive.

It's mentioned in the Jerusalem Post here. Sounds a bit fanciful, but you never know.

Lazar wrote:Sounds a bit fanciful

So does hijacking a couple of government Mercedes sedans to sneak spec-ops forces into Entebbe... oh, wait.

I think is realistic enough it might have happened. Israeli has some mean counter intelilgence and spec ops. Good for them. And makes me worried that Iran was trying to get a possible nuclear weapon this way (if its true).

Arctic Sea 'arms ship' has been cruising off West African coast

Still no admission from Russia about what was on board.