Comments on: Mystery Cargo – Somali Pirates Dying Aboard Hijacked Iranian Ship

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:34:13 +0000

Sounds like that car in the movie Repo Man ( LOL ). If you’ve never worked in a port you wouldn’t believe what goes to sea.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:23:42 +0000

Pirates check in…….but they don’t check out!

By: Motorod

Motorod — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:46:50 +0000

Could be anything, most likely chemical poisoning. Industrial chemicals can be deadly. Radiation at that level would have killed the crew as well, so if being smuggled would still have to be specially contained even if enclosed in container boxes, and I expect even these pirates know the symbol for radiation. Haven’t you seen inside a loaded container ship? There is no access to the majority of the containers. They’d have to be specifically loaded for special access.
Upon hearing the chemical weapon and automatic weapons rumor my first suspicion was that it’s a Bush Administration set-up & propaganda move to take us to war w/ Iran before the January change of administration, but decided I was just being paranoid even though it’d be easy to do what with all the American businesses in China.
The information appears to be working in just such a fashion on some of the readers in any case. Just what we need: War on a third front with a broken military, huge tax cuts to the wealthy and a financial crisis at home. If we’d have stayed out of Iraq in the first place. Bin Laden would be in prison or dead, there’d be no financial crisis & we’d be done by now.

Instead of “I’ve heard” and “I believe” why not list or verify your sources? What one hears and believes is usually far from the truth of the matter until all the information comes in.

By: Gary Prowant

Gary Prowant — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:24:09 +0000

Latest information found Saturday (Oct. 4th) is several U.S. naval ships are circling the merchant ship, Russian naval ship is on the way to the same area.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:54:23 +0000

Isn’t it odd that the MSM reports on the Ukranian ship, but NOTHING on this one? I believe that the US govt has sent investigators over to check out the bodies, but they will not report this to the American people. Election day is fast approaching, watch what happens after Nov 4th

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:44:23 +0000

Radiation?
Chemical poisoning!?!?!?

What a gloomy uneducated bunch.

Its obvious to me that the poor chaps are suffering due to global warming.
From what I’ve read, it wont be long til everybody within 2 degrees of the equator just spontaneously combusts…………………

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:36:34 +0000

Why are other news agencies avoiding this story? Are they afraid to send reporters over for a closer look? I new something was up that was more serious than just a few tanks etc. We could blow those up in a nano second if they started to unload them. The ship is surrounded by war ships. For good reason…

By: Thumperdude

Thumperdude — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:44:26 +0000

Sounds to me like the ship was a D-Con Rat Trap…and it worked!

If only someone had thought to try that earlier…a lot less pirate raids would have occurred.

By: sean fitz

sean fitz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:29:43 +0000

Hmmn, sounds like radiation sickness to me.

By: Elihu Irenicon

Elihu Irenicon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:36:41 +0000

Why does it HAVE to be radiation? It’s easy to confirm this in any event. No mystery there. The United States has access to the dead pirate bodies and could easily determine cause of death. Wouldn’t you think that if the deaths occured becasue of some sort of radiation poisoning that representatives of the United States would be screaming on every street corner from Somalia to the United Nations. My guess is the crew “gased” cargo containers as the ship fell. That is to say induced a toxic chemical with a short half-life. Remember the “Pirates” are simply middle men who are hired job-by-job by larger crime sindicates or corporations.

By: MrRcguy

MrRcguy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:17:28 +0000

Jeez. It seems pretty obvious it’s radiation poisoning. Everybody that reads this article will probably deduce the same. But I bet all the Govts. involved will come out stating it was just some innocuous chemical exposure instead of acute radiation sickness.

By: lord_liam

lord_liam — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:17:52 +0000

WOW!! Talk about curiosity killing the cat,chemicals, and Radiation both cause symptoms that have been described, u hate to think those containers could be sitting on a dock in port Newark NJ Usa and loaded to a waiting truck for later use,in connection to a terrorist event,I hope western sources are checking out those containers,and how many unpirated loads made it to their destination.

By: Gary Prowant

Gary Prowant — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:48:35 +0000

That first paragraph stating: Some of the Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fallen gravely ill “within days” certainly gives reason to believe the ship may even “glow in the dark”, as someone once said. Sounds like radiation to me, but I am not a “rocket scientist”….