Naval operations
WEAPON SHIP ‘HANSA INDIA’ SEIZED IN SUEZ CANAL
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. Continue reading
N. KOREAN SHIP, BOUND TO IRAN, ANL-AUSTRALIA SEIZED
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. Continue reading
TRAPPED N. KOREA [KANG NAM 1]
N. Korea blinked first and ordered the Kang Nam 1, on Wednesday 07/01/2009, to return to N. Korea. Continue reading
BOAT BOMB EXPLODED NEAR GAZA
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. Continue reading
DONA RAMONA BLAST
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. Continue reading
CYPRUS SEARCHES THE WEAPON SHIP ‘MONCHEGORSK’
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. Continue reading
WEAPON SHIP ‘KARIN A’
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). Continue reading
SOMALI PIRATES
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 Continue reading
ABU HASSAN BOAT
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. Continue reading
LIMBURG BOMBING
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.
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