Israel seizes thousands of rockets at sea
source: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/722569--analysis-israel-seizes-thousands-of-rocket...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8343447.stm
Israeli officials say they have seized a ship carrying a large consignment of Iranian weapons, including Katyusha missiles, to the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The ship, the Francop, which was flying under an Antiguan flag, was seized near Cyprus and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod.
If the Israeli account is true, this is a propaganda coup for the Jewish state.
First, the scale of the find - hundreds of tonnes, according to the officials - makes it unprecedented.
The Israelis say the cargo of the Francop was 10 times as big as that of the Karin-A, the ship they captured in 2002 allegedly bringing Iranian weapons to the Palestinians.
It could, they say, have kept Hezbollah supplied for a month of fighting.
Israeli officials say they have seized a ship carrying a large consignment of Iranian weapons, including Katyusha missiles, to the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
The ship, the Francop, which was flying under an Antiguan flag, was seized near Cyprus and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod.
If the Israeli account is true, this is a propaganda coup for the Jewish state.
First, the scale of the find - hundreds of tonnes, according to the officials - makes it unprecedented.
The Israelis say the cargo of the Francop was 10 times as big as that of the Karin-A, the ship they captured in 2002 allegedly bringing Iranian weapons to the Palestinians.
It could, they say, have kept Hezbollah supplied for a month of fighting.
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freecrack
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not really so much a coup as just another day being jewish in the middle east.
how does the global community imagine iranian made katusha rockets land without pause in israeli cities without iran supplying those who launch them, hizbollah and hamas?
do we suppose hamas and hizbollah are stealing the katushas from iran?
its only the latest event in willfull global ignorance to how terrorists work and who thet are,
we can invade jordan or egypt or whatever middle eastern country we dont like at the time, but islamic terrorism is rooted and proliferates in gaza and the african horn supplied by iran and lybia. - 2 years ago
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