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Russian Weapons Diverted by Syria to Hizbullah


[Die Welt-Germany] Jacques Schuster - On Jan. 31, a Russian transport plane landed at Damascus airport carrying 600 containers of Russian antitank weapons. Representatives of Hizbullah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were waiting on the runway. While a Syrian officer watched, 100 containers were loaded onto trucks and sent to Hizbullah in Lebanon. The delivery to Hizbullah violates UN Resolution 1701, adopted on August 11, 2006, after the war in Lebanon. Syria has frequently diverted Russian arms to its allies in Lebanon, but always claimed the weapons were stolen from Syrian military camps.
2007-02-08 01:00:00
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