Double Hijack of "Arctic Sea" (ongoing)

[Peter Lemkin]

There has been a very strange thing happening to the ship Arctic Sea.
See the ongoing thread at http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/showthread.php?t=28305

Some Quotes:

A Finnish-owned cargo ship sailing under a Maltese flag was briefly hijacked off Sweden between Gotland and Öland last week, the Swedish police said in a statement Thursday, adding the hijackers had posed as police.

According to the Swedish authorities up to ten hijackers had boarded MV Arctic Sea, tied up the 15-strong Russian crew and left the ship after searching for something on board for about 12 hours.

It simply does not make sense.
A 98-metre-long cargo ship, the M/S Arctic Sea, is reported to have been hijacked off the coast of Sweden, after which it is sighted again in the English Channel, and then it disappears without a trace.
Nevertheless, this is what has happened, in the age of satellites and radar systems, and in the waters of the European Union.

Maritime officials of the European Union believe that the missing cargo ship, the Arctic Sea, may have been hijacked twice. An anonymous official source told the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph that in addition to being hijacked off the coast of Sweden, the vessel was also seized off Portugal at the end of July.

The official said that the ship had reported an attack by “pirates” in Portuguese waters.

The source would not reveal further details because of the ongoing investigation.

Previously, the British Coastguard has said that the hijackers were probably on board when the ship passed through the English Channel. The Coastguard said that it had received a message from the ship which seemed suspicious.

Viktor Matvejev, the director of the shipping line that operates the Arctic Sea, told Reuters News Agency on Thursday that he believes that the hijackers are still on board.

Here is one for the conspiracy lovers. All the posts on the Daily Mail forum thread regarding this story have been deleted Now that forum is well moderated so its not due dubious comments. Why delete the entire thread?

I am not paranoid. No. But my first idea after reading the first headline was "black op".

Carsten

Would LOVE to know what is on that ship - or what these fake pirates thought was on it!......bet it isn't choclolate bars.