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| Shelley Express still at Las Palmas |
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| Shelley Express, ex Arctic Sea It's ba-ack |
In August 2009, the 'hijacked' Arctic Sea was off Las Palmas. Three Russian Il-76 transport planes (each capable of carrying 44 tons of cargo) were used to bring in the crew and maybe Surface-to-Air S-300 missiles destined for Iran by the Russian industrial complex. Perhaps after the urging of interested nations, the Moscow government intervened with naval forces, 'found' the vessel and sentenced the woeful hijackers, a Latvian and an Estonian, as well as three others described as stateless. This is a brief statement of an intriguing mystery. more alsoand read