The 21st Century Phenomenon
According Der Spiegel website, on Monday 10/12/2009, American troops boarded a German-owned freighter, Hansa India, in early 10/2009, and found eight containers full of ammunition, which was allegedly heading to Syria from Iran.
The United Arab Emirates seized a ship illegally carrying embargoed North Korean weapons, bound for Iran, diplomatic sources at the UN have said, on Friday 08/28/2009 night.
N. Korea blinked first and ordered the Kang Nam 1, on Wednesday 07/01/2009, to return to N. Korea.
A booby-trapped Palestinian fishing boat exploded off, near the Gaza coast as it headed north toward Israeli territory in an apparent attempted terror attack, on Monday 04/13/2009 morning.
A bomb blast, on 08/29/2005 at about 07:30, on a ferry, Dona Ramona, in the southern Philippines injured at least 30 people, including nine children.
Cyprus officials today admitted, on Friday 01/30/2009, that they were carrying out a search of a ship that is suspected of carrying weapons from Iran for Hamas in Gaza.
A ship carrying weapons from Iran intended for the Palestinian Authority was captured, on 01/05/2002, in the Red Sea by Israel’s Navy and Air Force (Operation Noah’s Ark).
The 320,000 tone Saudi-owned super tanker has been hijacked, on Monday 11/17/2008, in waters off East Africa and is heading towards the coast of Somalia. The ‘Sirius Star’ was carrying two million barrels of oil
On 05/21/2003, Israeli naval commandos intercepted and took over a small fishing boat with a team of seven, the Abu Hassan, West of Haifa in Northern Israel, sailing from Lebanon to Egypt.
On 10/06/2002, IN the Gulf of Aden in South Yemen on the Indian Ocean two speedboats loaded with explosives rammed into the French tanker Limburg.