A follow-on to the tale of what may have been, after all, Baltic piracy in "Lost"cargo ship Arctic Sea gives up its secrets : The gunmen demanded a ransom and threatened to execute the crew if security services were alerted.... [read full story]
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Dec. 29, 2008: The cargo ship the Arctic Sea in Kotka, Finland. It had been an uneventful night for the Russian sailor steering the cargo ship Arctic Sea across the Baltic when, at 2:10 .a.m, he was confronted by eight masked...
In the London Times/ here "..... The response fuelled reports that the ship was carrying a secret cargo. Suspicion mounted when sources close to Mossad claimed that Israel had tipped off Russia that the vessel was smuggling...
The crew at the centre of the hijacked cargo vessel tell of their ordeal for the first time, The Sunday Times of UK reports. The Maltese-registered Arctic Sea, which was officially carrying timber from Finland to Algeria, was...
