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2006-11-10 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 although life-saving equipment was found to be deficient

Not as deficient as the excuses, I'll bet.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-10 00:33|| 2006-11-10 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 India detains Iran-bound N Korea ship

¿ Our SEALS fouled the prop forcing the ship to seek port?

¿ [MV Omrani-II] The ship's crew wished to defect?

¿ a not to subtle threat? [next time it could be "loaded"]

"Nork Motivations" I'll have to stop right here and leave the serious analysis up to the experts here at Rantburg who can fathom the Maximum crazy wack motivations of the Norks.

Posted by RD 2006-11-10 02:20|| 2006-11-10 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Check the interior between the double hulls, go knocking on bulkheads, bring in the geiger counters. Think like a smuggler, for god's sake.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-11-10 10:11|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-10 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Indian IB has a long memory. They'll search that thing top to bottom...

NEW DELHI -- Tae Min Hun, the dour captain of the North Korean
freighter Kuwolsan, glared icily from the bridge as tempers around him
soared in the midday heat. On June 30, 1999, as customs agents in
India's northwestern port city of Kandla waited impatiently to board
the vessel, Tae received urgent instructions from Pyongyang: At all
cost, let no one open the cargo boxes.

The Indians tried to look anyway, and a melee erupted. Tae and his crew
rained blows on inspectors and barricaded the doors with their bodies,
according to witness accounts and video footage of the encounter. A few
agents who managed to slip into the cargo bay were horrified to find
North Koreans sealing the hatches, trapping them inside.

When the ship's doors were finally reopened at gunpoint, the reason for
the extreme secrecy became clear. Hidden inside wooden crates marked
"water refinement equipment" was an assembly line for ballistic
missiles: tips of nose cones, sheet metal for rocket frames, machine
tools, guidance systems and, in smaller crates, ream upon ream of
engineers' drawings labeled "Scud B" and "Scud C." The intended
recipient of the cargo, according to U.S. intelligence officials, was
Libya.

"In the past we had seen missiles or engine parts, but here was an
entire assembly line for missiles offered for sale," said an Indian
government official familiar with the discovery. "This was a complete
technology transfer."

Today, the evidence from the Kuwolsan remains locked in a military
warehouse in the Indian capital, where it has been scrutinized since
being seized four years ago. The results of India's investigation,
shared among a small circle of intelligence and defense analysts, offer
an extraordinary glimpse into the shadowy world of weapons
proliferation, in which missile parts and bomb materials circle the
globe undetected, secreted away in cargo containers and suitcases,
concealed by phony ship manifests and fictitious company names, eluding
customs agents and defying international treaties.

Posted by john 2006-11-10 11:38|| 2006-11-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Test run comes to mind!!!!

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-11-10 12:33|| 2006-11-10 12:33|| Front Page Top

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