Israel/Iran

This article was posted overseas on Oct 29th 2008 and was forwarded to me by a friend still serving overseas. This is why Obama scares me....he has no articulated understanding of the world or the military and he has only said 1 time that I can remember that he would stand with Israel when he was pressed and despite all the other speeches saying he did not support Israel as past presidents had.
When I vent I am venting to for the 300 million Americans and the majority who truly don't understand what we face and who think abortion rights, their economic problems, gay rights, etc. are the most important reason to vote for a President. Those may be important reasons but not as important as protecting our American Way of Life for all 300 million Americans. Not all Americans have abortions, not all have economic problems, not all are gay and want to marry...but all are affected when we are attacked.....it took 4 years for the markets to return to pre 9/11 and this country all but shut down after 9/11......what if they had mustered another wave of attacks say a month later on 10/11....where would we be? President Bush, weather you like him or not, has kept us safe for the past 7 years......I fear Obama won't....he and Pelosi and Reid are already talking about reducing the Military by 1/3rd.....what does that tell our enemies? Us?
Chazal say that those who enjoy the benefits of miracles have no idea that those miracles have been taking place. Nothing could be truer.
People have been buzzing about an Iranian plot to destroy Israel, G-d forbid, this past Yom Kippur. When people first heard the story, they understandably had serious doubts about its veracity. But, with more and more proof piling up, it looks like the real deal.
Hashem foiled an Iranian effort to contaminate Israel with over 40,000 metric tons (100 million pounds) of radioactive nuclear-contaminated sand. The Iranians had planned to take advantage of the prevailing winds that blow off the Meditteranean to spread the deadly sand all over Israel, Heaven forbid.
On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyanat (photo at left), an Iranian civilian merchant ship carrying 44,458 dead weight, was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.
Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore.
At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.
Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.
Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the shipʼs locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel. Not the expected rocket attacks (which could be intercepted by the Israelis) but an even more deadly and unexpected attack by sea. It is very interesting to note that the Israeli government has in the past few weeks, been loudly demanding that the United States establish a naval blockade of Iran.
The reason for this blockade would be to prevent any more Iranian ships with deadly cargos from attacking either Israel or other targets from the sea.
Conclusion: We should be singing praise to Hashem nonstop day and night. Our job is to strengthen emunah, Torah study, and mitzvah observance. Hashem will fight our battles for us.

Joo yellow journalism

The MV Iran Deyanat arrived at Rotterdam on 11 November 2008. A "multi-disciplinary team comprising inspectors from the port authority, customs and habour police boarded and searched the ship" and found no hazardous substances on board.[12] The paperwork was in order and the ship was unloaded. Lloyd's List reported that the ship’s charterer—German-based Hinrichs—denied any evidence of pirates falling ill during the hijacking.[12] This contradicts the claims, however, that local officials made to sources such as The Times of South Africa[7] and Reuters.[11]
whatcha gonna do?
factual reports regarding pirates, nuke material, etc is difficult to compile.
CC

The MV Iran Deyanat arrived at Rotterdam on 11 November 2008. A "multi-disciplinary team comprising inspectors from the port authority, customs and habour police boarded and searched the ship" and found no hazardous substances on board.[12] The paperwork was in order and the ship was unloaded. Lloyd's List reported that the ship’s charterer—German-based Hinrichs—denied any evidence of pirates falling ill during the hijacking.[12] This contradicts the claims, however, that local officials made to sources such as The Times of South Africa[7] and Reuters.[11]
whatcha gonna do?
factual reports regarding pirates, nuke material, etc is difficult to compile.
CC
Huh?

Huh?
I think He is saying it is hard to know who to believe?

I think He is saying it is hard to know who to believe?
Gotcha. Thanks.