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October 16, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.liberation.fr/monde/0101124125-la-russie-soupconnee-de-livrer-en-secret-des-armes-au-hezbollah

Report: Russia Suspected of Secretly Delivering Weapons to Hizbullah

[Liberation-France] Jean-Pierre Perrin - On July 4, the Angela, a cargo ship flying the flag of Gibraltar, was subjected to a thorough search in the Bulgarian port of Varna. Two containers were found to contain dual-use metal pipes produced in Russia. The grooves on both sides of the tubes suggest that these were parts for the assembly of missiles. Questioned for 17 hours, the captain, a Lithuanian, eventually confessed that the vessel was destined for Latakia, a major Syrian port. Why was such a delivery clandestine since Moscow and Damascus are linked by military cooperation agreements, unless the final destination of the material seized in Varna is not Syria? According to Western military sources, if these missiles are assembled in Syria, some of them are destined for Hizbullah.

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