Double Hijack of "Arctic Sea" (ongoing)

[Magda Hassan]

Peter P, Mark, Peter L - something clearly happened, but what?

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shlomo Brom, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, did not rule out Israeli covert action against Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear arms, but doubted Israel would take action against Russian ships.

Um. USS Liberty?

If the Israelis will take out an American ship, they would have no reservations about taking out a Russian ship if they deemed it in their national security interests.

From Xymphora:

Another explanation for the Russian ship mystery is that it was a decoy/counterintelligence operation to identify any 'dual loyalist' Jews in the Russian government who might be tipping off the Israelis to any Russian military sales to the Middle East. All other explanations fail to account for the fact that it was the Russians who made a big deal out of this, hardly likely if the cargo of this unknown ship was embarrassing to them. A few 'accidents' and the Russian security problem is cleaned up

Yes.

Plus, if the Russians wanted to ship weapons to Iran, they were taking a very long and tortuous route.

Why not sail directly across the Caspian Sea?

I think Jan and Xymphora may be on to something here. It makes much more sense than anything else.