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November 15, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.jrep.com/Reporter/Article-0.html

Captured Arms Ship Made Three Previous Smuggling Trips

(Jerusalem Report) Mitchell Ginsburg - Prior to its capture by the Israel Navy in May 2001, the arms-smuggling vessel Santorini made three successful trips from Lebanon to the Gaza and the Sinai coast to drop off its cargo. The Santorini's first voyage, directed by Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), was from Tripoli in November 2000. The arms were packed in Syria and transferred to Tripoli in a Syrian bus, according to one of the captured Lebanese crew members. Its second and third voyages, both in April 2001, were run by Hizballah.

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