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August 27, 2009
Hidden in Plain View
By Roland Oliphant
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On August 17 the Russian patrol vessel Ladny apprehended and boarded the Maltese-flagged, Finnish owned cargo ship Arctic Sea, which had apparently been hijacked in Swedish waters three weeks earlier. The rescue operation – accomplished “without a shot being fired,” according to the Russian navy – marked the end of the three-week mystery of the missing cargo vessel. But the subsequent criminal investigation may well last longer and prove even more enigmatic than the ship’s original “disappearance.”

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