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Last month, in between all the other things I've been doing (a long and tedious list) I noticed a news story alleging that Somali pirates had hijacked an Iranian ship (this is not the hijacked Ukranian ship that has been all over the news) and started getting sick and dying after being exposed to the cargo. Most of the stories suggested chemical or biological possiblities, but the reported symptoms were textbook radiation sickness.
Pirates dropping dead of radiation sickness after being exposed to their looted cargo gets my attention. So I did a bit of googling and found that this story had gotten reported by several conservative sources and nowhere else. Fox news was the most moderate news source that carried the story.
Then I went and did other things for a month before doing more googling the other night, because it came to mind. The pirates released the ship Oct 10. If somebody knows where it is they certainly aren't telling the press. The wikipedia article says the ship is headed to Muscat but apparently several Indian and Filipino sailors from the ship went home.
Supposedly now Russian Intelligence claims that the ship was a dirty bomb. (Also see this, this, and this.)
Notably, I cannot find a single liberal or moderate news source (unless you count Fox as moderate) in the U.S. who has mentioned any of this. In fact, while it's all over the international news, the sources for which I can identify a clear bias are also conservative in their own countries. But I think that pirates getting radiation sickness is at least as interesting as 40 year old tanks. I don't think the whole thing is made up in it's entirety, though now that I think of it I could see U.S. military interests in the Phillipines getting a false story in the media there to back up some psyops (Iran sent a dirty bomb to Isreal, we must punish them. Don't vote for Obama, who won't go whip Iran's butt and so forth), but not so much with India.
What the heck is going on here?
Pirates dropping dead of radiation sickness after being exposed to their looted cargo gets my attention. So I did a bit of googling and found that this story had gotten reported by several conservative sources and nowhere else. Fox news was the most moderate news source that carried the story.
Then I went and did other things for a month before doing more googling the other night, because it came to mind. The pirates released the ship Oct 10. If somebody knows where it is they certainly aren't telling the press. The wikipedia article says the ship is headed to Muscat but apparently several Indian and Filipino sailors from the ship went home.
Supposedly now Russian Intelligence claims that the ship was a dirty bomb. (Also see this, this, and this.)
Notably, I cannot find a single liberal or moderate news source (unless you count Fox as moderate) in the U.S. who has mentioned any of this. In fact, while it's all over the international news, the sources for which I can identify a clear bias are also conservative in their own countries. But I think that pirates getting radiation sickness is at least as interesting as 40 year old tanks. I don't think the whole thing is made up in it's entirety, though now that I think of it I could see U.S. military interests in the Phillipines getting a false story in the media there to back up some psyops (Iran sent a dirty bomb to Isreal, we must punish them. Don't vote for Obama, who won't go whip Iran's butt and so forth), but not so much with India.
What the heck is going on here?