murkier and murkier
from the Finish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat
"The paperwork of the freight vessel Thor Liberty, which was found to have explosives and missiles on board when it docked at Kotka Harbour, is in order, said the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
On Wednesday, Minister of the Interior Paivi Rasanen Christ. Dem.) was still saying that the bill of lading claimed that the containers, which were loaded with Patriot ground-to-air missiles, had been labelled as fireworks.
However, it came out later that this was a linguistic misunderstanding involving the words “rocket” and “missile”.
“There was no attempt in the documents to mislead in any way”, says Detective Superintendent Timi Virtanen of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)."
The rest of the article is interesting as it appears the ship had to find a safe harbour to escape the heavy storms. However they forgot to tell the pilot what was onboard...
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