[ RadSafe ] "Arctic Sea" mystery

[Emer, Dudley]

I suppose then that everyone else is making it up as well. 
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090819/GLOBALBRIEFING/908199991/-1/ART
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52306,news,russian-navy-closes-in-on-missing-freighter-arctic-sea
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52201,news,secret-cargo-theory-in-hunt-for-missing-arctic-sea-ship-hijack
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-missing-ship,0,6992084.story
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/15/russia.missing.ship/

The whole thing is so bizarre I'd have to believe there's more here than meets the eye. The point being no one knows what the deal was, but whatever it was it certainly wasn't your mundane hijacking considering the ship was reportedly hijacked twice on the same voyage. 
I suspect the only clue you'll get as to what really happened is that the story will just magically go away.

Dudley Emer
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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:27 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] "Arctic Sea" mystery

World Net Daily is hardly a Pultizer Prize winning den of investigative
journalists.  They have been inventing "news" for years.  In 2000, they
claimed that Pres Clinton's warship moored in Haiphong Harbor would not
properly fly the American flag - that incensed a lot of veterans - President
Clinton did visit North Vietnam, but not aboard a warship.  He flew in;
there never were any plans for a warship to carry the President, but WND,
caught with their pants down, still refused to back down and invented that
they got the information from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Samoa and that he had heard it from some Admiral at Pearl Harbor.  Sound
nuts, well, that's what the quality of their journalism was in 2000 and
frankly, they still have the same high quality staff!

Roger Helbig

(I have quite a series of e-mails on the Flag caper)

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:48 PM
To: 'Peter Bossew'; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] "Arctic Sea" mystery

Peter and RADSAFErs,

I read the story at "Der Standard". There it is stated that information
about the "radioactivity"-measurements were given to the paper "Oesterbotten
tidning" (a Finnish paper written in Swedish). I checked the paper. Not a
word about this topic. I checked the major Swedish papers - not a word about
radioactivity measurements. As Peter pointed out the Finnish Radiation
Protection Institute (STUK) has no information on their website either in
its finnish, swedish or english version. The finnish paper
"Hufvudstadsbladet" (also in Swedish) does not mention as well anything
about these measurements. The remark in Wikipedia led to Helsingin Sanomat
and as much as my very bad finnish allowed me to understand it was a very
short comment (few lines) that the fire brigade had done measurements and
that STUK was of the opinion that there was no reason to do it.

Speculations about the freight cover all sorts from drugs, weapons to
nuclear and dirty bombs (!!!).

Have a good laugh about the fantasy of journalists!

Franz 

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von Peter Bossew
Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. August 2009 19:29
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] "Arctic Sea" mystery

According to Wikipedia, "MV_Arctic_Sea", sec. "Investigation",

"The Jakobstad fire department conducted radiation measurements on August
14 at the departure pier of the ship, but the investigation was stopped by
the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, stating that there was
no reason to conduct measurements."

As ref. a Finnish newspaper article is given. Also an Austrian newspaper
reports the story; for those who read German:
http://derstandard.at/fs/1250003543717/Bericht-ueber-abgebrochene-Radioaktiv
itaetspruefung
. In the article they say that the firefighters were given a "hint".

There is no comment in the STUK homepage.

Does anybody know more ?



Peter Bossew


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