Comrade...where's my cargo ship?!?

This is my latest favorite story going on...that every now & then pops up from under the radar. The Arctic Sea a Russian owned Finnish operated cargo ship carrying "timber" to Algeria goes missing in August...then pops up weeks later off the Cape Verde Islands (not too close to Algeria...check out map. Of course everyone thought pirates at first...but that's not quite what happened.

• The ship was boarded & then released 3 days after it left Finland...then pops up weeks later off Cape Verde Coast
• The crew never pulls into port after the boarding...even they they were "assaulted"...it goes dark...
• A global alarm never goes up on maritime channels for assistance in finding the ship
• Russia sends battleships to hunt down the missing vessel
• The ship finally turns back up under heavy military guard
• The crew is under gag orders
• Netanyahu (the Prime Minister of Israel) makes an unscheduled trip to Russia the beginning of Sept

Is it safe to say the ship was carrying more then timber...? Most likely arms for Freedom Fighters..Russians love to support Freedom whenever & wherever they can...Who boarded the ship, held the crew at gunpoint & then left w/o taking anything...other then I'm guessing some pics... Was the Russian gov't complicit (what was Putin's cut?) in this or were rogue forces...better yet both working in tandem...how much of this is going on...? I'm guessing way too much...keep looking out for further developments on this story. The FT just ran a story on it in their weekend edition.