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| 'Stink' attack on Japan's whalers | 'Stink' attack on Japan's whalers |
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| An anti-whaling group says its members have thrown "stink" bombs at a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic. | An anti-whaling group says its members have thrown "stink" bombs at a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic. |
| The Sea Shepherd group said crew on one of its boats lobbed 10 bottles of rotten butter and 15 bottles of a methyl cellulose at the Japanese ship. | The Sea Shepherd group said crew on one of its boats lobbed 10 bottles of rotten butter and 15 bottles of a methyl cellulose at the Japanese ship. |
| No-one was injured during Friday's incident north of the Mawson Peninsula, Japanese officials said. | |
| They said their ship was on a research expedition. Opponents say this could be a cover for banned commercial whaling. | They said their ship was on a research expedition. Opponents say this could be a cover for banned commercial whaling. |
| The Sea Shepherd said the incident took place at 0730 GMT on Friday off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory. | The Sea Shepherd said the incident took place at 0730 GMT on Friday off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory. |
| The group said its members on board its ship - the Steve Irvin - threw the bottles at Japan's Kaiko Maru vessel after pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet for a week. | The group said its members on board its ship - the Steve Irvin - threw the bottles at Japan's Kaiko Maru vessel after pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet for a week. |
| "That is one stinky slippery ship," Sea Shepherd's official Peter Hammarstedt said. | "That is one stinky slippery ship," Sea Shepherd's official Peter Hammarstedt said. |
| The group said its objective was to intimidate the Japanese whalers and keep them moving eastward out of Australian Territorial waters. | The group said its objective was to intimidate the Japanese whalers and keep them moving eastward out of Australian Territorial waters. |
| It said that the fleet had not been able to kill any whales during the chase. | It said that the fleet had not been able to kill any whales during the chase. |
| Japan says its research expeditions do not violate a moratorium on commercial whaling adopted by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. | Japan says its research expeditions do not violate a moratorium on commercial whaling adopted by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. |