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Track The Real-Time Position Of Ship Which Pentagon Says Was Seized By Iran
Following initial confusion about which ship was shot at, seized and confiscated by Iran, with Arabiya and Farsnews reporting it was a US ship with 34 soldiers on board, while the Pentagon subsequently stating there were no US personnel on the cargo ship which was a Marshall Island-flagged cargo vessel, the Maersk Tigris, the situation still remains fluid, especially considering the latest news out of the Pentagon:
- U.S. SENT DESTROYER AND AIRCRAFT TO MONITOR SHIP, WARREN SAYS
But why if it isn't a US ship? And how will Iran react when the US naval "cavalry" arrives in its territorial waters?
Some more news on the ship in question: according to Bloomberg, the Maersk Tigris cargo vessel was in international waters when taken by Iranian navy, Cor Radings, external spokesman for Rickmers Ship Management, says by phone. Rickmers is manager of vessel. 24 crew on board ship; not known why vessel was taken. Rickmers trying to re-establish contact with vessel.
Meanwhile, those curious can track the confiscated Tigris, in real time courtesy of Marine Traffic (link). One thing is clear: there are no US cargo ships anywhere in the vicinity of the Tigris...
... although there may be some military ones soon. That's a different story.
As for this being "only" a Marshall Islands ship, a good question was asked moments ago:
The US is responsible for Marshall Islands Defence under the Compact of Free Association. Does this cover protecting its commercial vessels?
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Gov't finding it more and more difficult to propagandize the lies
How else do you think the US was going to give Iran the nuclear material it promised? Seize ship, unload goods, release ship.
Maersk is a Danish shipping company. On of if not the biggest.
http://www.maersk.com/en
Most ships are "flagged" under obscure countries
A "cargo" ship from the "Marshall Islands"... mmmhmmm... and the Pentagram has credibility because???
My friend used to fly helicopters off of "merchant" ships under other country's flags to do Navy Seal drops for a few years. Just because its a merchant ship under a different country's flag does not mean it doesn't have US soldiers on it. Mind you most merchant ships are just merchant ships.
I love this, the USA does this shit all the time in international waters and breaking UN charters by invading countries. I guess the feeling of exceptionalism is rubbing off on some folks.
The Iranian leadership knows Obama won't do a damn thing. Obama is so against any military action he is willing to give away 'the store' while negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran...even as the Iranian leadership says death to the USA, tells the world that US blacks are in worse shape than ever even though there president is black and now the shipping incident. After telling Bashir al Assad not to cross a red line and then backing down after Assad crossed that line, Obama has shown the world he is impotent. I agree with Obama that everthing must be done diplomatically to achieve a peaceful resolution, but in life when a bad person you are confronted by threatens you, your family, and then spits on you while grabbing one of your family members, well you stop 'pleading' with that person and kick his ass good and sound so he doesn't pop off again. ALl of Obama's actions are leading to an emboldened enemy and in the end when the threat confronts us at home the mess that will need to be cleaned up will be way worse than cleaning it up now. Time to spank the bad kid and make him sit in the corner with a dunce cap on.
HAHAHAHAH look at this sheep.
If you wanted to pay for it out of your own pocket. I'd say more power to you. Unfortunately the cost of war is always socialized. Therefore I'll call you a thief. Get out of my pocket thief and if I could I'd whack your hand off as you were picking my pocket for my contribution to the war effort.
They don't need this ship, they're getting it (Uranium) from Russia who got it directly from the US, courtesy of Hillary.
Running cirlces around US foreign policy...
If the news is true, the US Gov't just found it moar difficult to fuck with Iranian ships in the waters off Yemen. I hope the DoD hasn't taken up checkers in sympathy with their Dear Idiot, but they are certainly out of practice with adversaries who don't just sit "there" and take it (or give it) engaging Uncle Sam in only a single theater or continuous geographic land mass.
Therefore they will resort to increasingly violent means to enforce the collective opinion.
No app for finding ISIS, unless you're a US cargo plane dropping weapons.
Two Qatari and 6 Turkish officers were killed in a commando style raid by an elite Syrian Army special forces unit. These officers were commanding al Nusra units that entered Syria in the past 8 hours from Turkey. In addition to the Qatari and Turkish officers, two dozen senior al Nusra military and political officers were killed, the core of their command structure.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/04/27/syria-smashes-al-nusra-leadershi...
I didn't see this on CNBC or CNN.
You really got to love the controlled US media. I love the fact that we are funding ISIS (mostly through black budget and middle men) while the media is telling us we need to fear ISIS. Its also funny how Syria is so much more western oriented than the Saudi (so called Royals) but they are the enemy.
Could be elite Iranian or Russian SFs unit dressed up like Syrians maybe. No matter as it looks like the al Nusra leadership folks got their asses kicked.
@813kml , have you tried to run VIN numbers through Carfax? ya might find out how they obtained 200 toyota 4wd, 4door technicals, with factory set heaqvy gun attachment platforms, with A/C, you know for running to the grocery store.
that's because they are everywhere. Shelter in place! Shelter in place!
......"Capt, Stubing, Doc and Gopher led the asault to fend-off the would be attackers, unfortunately Julie the Cruise Director took a burst from an AK-47..."....an AL Jazeera Source said...
What are the odds, that it just happens to be leased to some CIA front outfit?
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering too. And will some ISIS guys go hungry this week, now that the Iranian sailors are eating their cookies and drinking their MRE instant coffee....
Maybe they just stopped on Hormuz Island for a BBQ?
So much for 34 Anericans on board the ship:
The Iranian Navy has reportedly seized a US ship with 34 crew members on board, for violating Iran's waters in the Persian Gulf. An Iranian warship is taking the vessel to the city of Bandar Abbas, Fars and Al Arabiya report.
A Pentagon spokesman has confirmed that Iranian forces have boarded the Marshall Island-flagged Maersk Tigris vessel, Reuters reports.
The ship had no US citizens on board and was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz when it was seized, the spokesman said, adding that US planes and the USS Farragut responded to a distress call from the vessel and are monitoring the situation.
http://rt.com/news/253853-iran-seize-us-ship/
>>> U.S. SENT DESTROYER AND AIRCRAFT TO MONITOR SHIP, WARREN SAYS
>>> But why if it isn't a US ship?
Because Marshall Islands is a US protectorate.
Marshall Islands is a occupied by USA - fixed for you, no thanks needed
We took it from the Japanese Empire.
We occupied some folks.
"Marshall Islands is a occupied by USA - fixed for you, no thanks needed"
So is Diego Garcia and Guam. And a host of other island nations that have been occupied, conquered by the USA.
We occupied some folks.
We junked some folks.
"Full speed ahead to Diego Garcia. We've gotta' get that disassembled 777 loaded by Friday."
last week this
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/u-s-ship-may-intercept-iranian-aid-to-yemeni-rebels/ U.S. ship may intercept Iranian aid to Yemeni rebelsApril 21, 2015, 7:13 AM|The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is on its way to the waters off Yemen. That move is part of an international effort to keep weapons from entering the country. Iranian ships heading towards Yemen are believed to be carrying weapons meant for rebel forces. David Martin reports from the Pentagon.
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We fought a war over Muslim Pirates in the early 1800s....time again maybe..
Sir, I cannot find that in any Common Core curriculum.
The course is titled How Muslims Helped Found the US by Prof. Barry Obama. It's part of LGBT curriculum included as part of History - Getting Real with The Women and LGBT that Actually Shaped the Modern World. Old Dead White European Males were kicked to the side to make way for the mainstream view decades ago. Came in with the new math. Please keep up.
Hm you learn power by reading between the lines in K-12 or from TV & Hollywood movies/Computer Games in the USA. Unless you go to Catholic School or a Private School.
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- Privateering through Corporate Socialism & Welfare Programs after losing Job Off Shore, through merger, or loss of pension & retirement from Wall Street
- Or Privateering state sponsored Confiscation of Ships, Trade Goods, Weapons, Drones, Black Mail of government Officials, Military Personnel, or Tech Scientists
- Or maybe there are Rogue Pirates either in Intelligence Agency, Drug Gang, International Bank or private individuals
- Our Favorite is regulation Capture or Legislation Capture through proxies from inside the system who are loyal to a network, class or Elites, or Government Culture
If only that was sarcastic...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/13/remarks-president...
... moar of the same in the intervening years ...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/15/president-obama-hosts-iftar-d...
Jefferson never held an Iftar dinner.
Just because a monkey repeats the same lie, year after year, doesn't make it true.
Sort of like claiming that an infidel or an apostate Obozo is actually some devout closeted Muslim.
While generally aware of O's comments - I did hit the first link. I need to wait til beer o'clock for the other.
Just for laughs, can anyone tell me the name of an Islamic based charity along the lines of Doctors Without Borders or Operation Smile or Christian based charities building houses, making clean water available etc etc. You know, where the Islamic group helps other non Islamic people?
The Dear Leader has an entire congregation of true believers with not a single properly functioning brain cell among the lot of them. They apparently dragged out Jefferson's copy of the Koran and passed it around like some sort of magic Talisman to sanctify their lies or idiocy. If owning a copy of the Koran was proof of anything (other than perhaps trying to know one's enemy in this case) --I think Hugues de Payens probably also owned a copy of the Koran, he was certainly more likely than Jefferson to have actually held an Iftar, in the downtime between bouts of killing Mohammedans.
As to your question... are you willing to accept a certain organization founded by crazy Swiss guy about 150 years ago?
one day, on the road with horses, we stopped somewhere in the middle nowhere, and in the morning a women, muslima, came out of nowhere, gave us bread and said, this was her duty as a good muslima. she looked as if she had nothing herself.
never put folks in one pot. never ever.
and okay, this wasnt an organisation, but organisations are not really, what they are sold as. feeding people in camps, to keep them calm, so that the conquerors can go on doin their business etc, think of it.
Yeah but other monkeys of all races will believe a lie when it is repeated enough. At least that number of monkeys is shrinking as they are waking up and becoming men. A motivated pissed off MAN is the power elites worse nightmare, hence the war on Straight men.
Son, hate to break it to you, but modern texts have been "dummied down". My nephew's American History text was over 400 pages, when I looked at how it covered the Spanish American war, it got one long paragraph. I kid you not. No mention of The Maine, our preemptive surprise attacks on Spanish fleets, how we "kept" the Philippines after "liberating" them, yet how we never got around to supposed primary cause of the war which was "liberating" Cuba. No mention of Nimitz's findings that the ship explosion at the start of the war was likely self inflicted. Disgraceful then, just as disgraceful how we gloss over it now.
The key to our history of "bombing Libya" is to understand that Regan was the 2nd President to do so. Thomas Jefferson was the first, authorizing shelling of a few shoreline cities from our fledgling navy as retaliation for hosting pirates. Since Regan, I've sort of lost count of how many times the US has attacked Libya (only 10 fingers for counting).
Libya was introducing gold backed currency. He had to go.
Is there a war app?
Maybe an actual False-Flag this time.
Oxymoron much ?
It was headed for the UAE, how convenient.
All I see is cargo ships on that link... no tracking of warships or is that an in-app purchase?
Air America ... in a ship ?
"Track The Real-Time Position Of Ship Which Pentagon Says Was Seized By Iran"
Forget that, I want to know where the "Dancing Mossads" are.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Warships don't transmit AIS info.
New Zealand’s “Warships” do!
it is probably stretching the truth a bit to say Kiwis have warships.
Beat me to it.
I looked at the AIS and the Tigris was the only one in the area transmitting. I came here to report, but they already had the info.
Has anybody gone to the golf course and told our fearless leader?
He'll see it on the news this evening.
Maybe the Iranians are merely tightening the enforcement of infringment of their waters by foreign/cargo vessels, or the Crew in the wheelhouse had a good party with Saudi-provided European girls and boys, and they got sloppy in their navigation, while still DUI. We'll find out soon enough.
Sorry: virtually no warships transmit AIS info, just Kiwis and other happy-go-luckies who don't ever expect to blow shit up. Or get shot at.
W T F !!
Came out of Saudi Arabia last...might be a snub towards the Saudis than the US.
Lets not jump to conclusions, Iranians are very hospitable people especially towards infidels, they might just be extending hospitality to the crew of the vessel.
Liberating them in a similar way that the US Liberated Iraq.
"I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down, some day one of them might not come up. Who would know why? (guffaws)... We can do a variety of things... I'm not advocating that! [actually you are]... (but) we are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nasty."
https://youtu.be/PfoaLbbAix0?t=1m20s
The S.S Minnow has been found.
Gilligan's Island Theme Songhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0
US Owned vs Ships registry is a huge difference.
US owned commercial vessels are registered outside of US to avoid-circumvent US jurisdiction-laws-taxes and liabilities. Most US owned ships are registered in a foreign country and are called: Foreign flag or pirate flag ships. Greece, Panama, Honduras, Liberia are typical foreign flag registry countries.
All US registered merchant vessels, must have at least 80% of it's crews menbers to be US citizens, ship and crew fall under the command of:
The US federal government, it maintains fleets of merchant ships via organizations such as Military Sealift Command and the National Defense Reserve Fleet. In 2004, the federal government employed approximately 5% of all American water transportation workers.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine
A Tim Cook Apple app tracking the number of times a penis enters his anus. Let's me be clear. Based on his homosexual workout, Tim is in healthy status.
Flight 655 shot down by American discord.
http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=a7a_1405743992
Why would Iran do this? It makes zero sense. Is this internal sabotage within the Iranian military going up against the turbans who think they call the shots?
According to Farsnews (Iranian):
I can't speak to the legitimacy of the claim, but Iran isn't going to care to stir up any shit right in the middle of the nuke talks. It may have been a legitimate seizure if the ship owed the port authority money, even if the ship was in international waters. Still, odd timing considering the risk to Iran and the end of sanctions - they wouldn't do it as a simple provocation.
Maybe there was something especially interesting on board that either Saudi Arabia, the U.S. or the UAE would rather not have the world know about? One of the stolen Pantex nuclear pits, some hungry fruit bats or 50 tons of VX would be particularly embarassing for the offenders and probably help Iran at the talks.
Nice link to the marine traffic site that makes it easy to track the vessel's history. Between 08:09 and 09:00 UTC this morning (About 9-10 hours ago), the vessel did a sharp turn towards the Iranian island of Qeshm and headed straight for it in the opposite direction of its declared destination, the port of Jebel Ali in Dubai.
According to defensenews.com, the vessel was intercepted by the Iranians around 5am Washington time (12:00 UTC). At that time, it was steaming North-West directly towards Iran, fairly deep in Iranian waters off the coast of Qeshm having made two course changes, 5 degrees at 08:09 UTC and 304 degrees at 11:18 UTC. Both course changes in the opposite direction to its destination port of Jebel Ali.
Tracking history of Maersk Tigris
So, the MSM "facts" that it is a US container ship is false, that Americans are on board is false, that it was in international waters heading away from Iran is false. In fact, there does not appear to be anything truthful about this weird incident.
MSM was hoping to sell the international community the ship was transporting nuclear weapons. Another lost Jewish media cause.
From the same Farsnews article above:
So the track history seems consistent with Iran eventually stopping and seizing the vessel, then taking it to Bandar Abbas. This, after the odd turn towards Iran. The turn towards Iran was almost the same direction as the surface winds (not into but with the wind). There's no known nuke stuff that direction in Iran - it's all much further north.
http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=979_1372899707
I have the original with floating bodies in the sea. Just not handy.
Someone within the Bank of International Settlements is half baked to create lies to push the digital banking era.
I have news for you, we will eliminate you first. Bullet meets gun, gun finds you. Be forwarned.
baby boy
Were you on your fairy wings when you observed the Iranians fire at the bridge? As of now all are reporting that it was a shot across the freighters bow. Which is to say "you are in our territorial waters and so you better make for our port so we can see if you are carrying contraband or weapons. Happens all the time but when the West does it, it doesn't even get a mention in People Magazine.
Just more double standard, baby boy.