Terror attack or false flag attempt on japanese oil tanker ?

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http://www.japantoday.com/category/crim ... -of-hormuz

TOKYO —

Japanese authorities have found radar data showing two small unidentified ships near the Japanese tanker that was damaged in a suspected attack in the Strait of Hormuz in late July, transport ministry sources said Tuesday.

The data retrieved from the tanker’s voyage data recorder showed two small ships changing directions many times and making other suspicious moves, raising the possibility that they may have been involved in the purported attack.

The Japan Transport Safety Board, a body under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the state-run National Maritime Research Institute are currently analyzing the images left in the tanker’s data recorder, the sources said.

The National Police Agency’s National Research Institute of Police Science is also checking substances collected from the damaged part of the tanker to see if they were components of an explosive.

The 160,292-ton tanker M. Star was damaged in a suspected explosion while sailing in Omani waters in the western part of the Strait of Hormuz on July 28, leaving one person slightly injured.

The radar data showed the small ships sailing parallel to the tanker, passing it and then turning around. They also showed that at some point, one of the ships disappeared from the radar, a move believed to indicate that it had moved to its blind spot around the tanker, according to the sources.

Operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd, the tanker was on its way to Japan carrying crude oil from Das Island in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. A total of 31 crew members—15 Indians and 16 Filipinos—were aboard the ship.

The Japanese government has set up an investigative panel formed by experts from the transport, foreign affairs and defense ministries as well as the police. Outside experts are also included in the panel. The panel’s first meeting is expected to be held on Wednesday.

After the ship was damaged, a manager of the UAE’s Fujairah port said something collided with the tanker.

In early August, a militant group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for an attack on the Japanese tanker.

Later, the UAE’s state-run news agency WAM, citing a UAE coast guard source, reported that local explosives experts ‘‘found a dent on the starboard side above the waterline and remains of homemade explosives on the hull.’‘

‘‘Probably the tanker had encountered a terrorist attack from a boat loaded with explosives,’’ the source was quoted as saying in the report.
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damage from the inside of the ship .


weird , looks almost too symmetrical for explosion .

if successful , no doubt This event would have been dubbed: "mega terrorist attack" and could very well may have lead to temporary closing strait of hormuz for sailing ,and who knows what other chaos scenarios could have risen from this .

and this event happened while a massive allied armada fleet of almost 100 war ships according to some sources , patrol the waters near by ,the area is very busy but relatively small area , 100 ships with state of the art radar technologies and they all miss this event ,and others ,numerous ships are still being hijacked there every couple of weeks .
which makes me wonder what the hell are they doing there if they fail to guard ships like they suppose to do .