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Hezbollah denies connection to arms smuggling ship

Tehrān : Iran | 23 days ago  
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  • Container is unloaded from Antigua-flagged Francop vessel at port of Ashdod
    Container is unloaded from Antigua-flagged Francop vessel at port of ...
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  • A container ship docks at the port of Ashdod
    A container ship docks at the port of Ashdod
    Source: Reuters
Container is unloaded from Antigua-flagged Francop vessel at port of ...
Hezbollah has denied any connection to a large cache of arms found on a ship intercepted by Israel. Soldiers on Tuesday night boarded the freighter ship, flying the flag of Antigua, and discovered some 300 tons of arms and ammunition, including 3,000 rockets, disguised as commercial freight, according...
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  • News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency | 22 days ago
    Hezbollah has denied any connection to a large cache of arms found on a ship intercepted by Israel. Soldiers on Tuesday night boarded the freighter ship, flying the flag of Antigua, and discovered some 300 tons of arms and ammunition, including 3,000...
  • News Source: The Guardian | 22 days ago
    Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian backers have flatly rejected Israeli claims that a shipment of arms and ammunition intercepted at sea was destined for the Lebanese militia group. As Israel moved quickly to exploit the propaganda value of the...
  • News Source: AKI | 22 days ago
    Militant Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah has denied any links to the arms ship seized on Wednesday by the Israeli navy which claimed it was heading to Syria or Lebanon from Iran. "Hezbollah denies any link to the weapons that the Zionist enemy...
  • News Source: The Age | 22 days ago
    THE radical Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has strongly denied any link to arms seized by Israeli commandos on the way to Syria. The shipment, intercepted two days ago, was among the biggest arms cache seized by Israel, which said the weapons...
  • News Source: United Press International | 22 days ago
    A day after Israel intercepted an Iranian cargo ship carrying arms 100 miles offshore, the vessel was permitted to continue its journey, the army said. Thirty-six containers of weapons were unloaded by the army at the Israeli port of Ashdod before...
  • News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth | 23 days ago
    Rani Ben-Yehuda said, "The quantity of arms seized on the weapons ship Francop is ten times or even more than the quantity of weapons on the Karin-A ship."   In a briefing to reporters at the naval base in Ashdod, Brig...Ben-Yehuda said that the...
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  • Blog Source: www.goodasis.com
    Hezbollah also called the interception of the ship, which was boarded near Cyprus, an act of “piracy”. Israel said the arms cache, which it said was one of the biggest it had ever found, came from Iran and was bound for Hezbollah in ...
  • Blog Source: berita-terkini-semasa.blogspot.com
    Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship'. The vessel was taken to Ashdod for further inspection. Israel's navy has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of weapons 160km (100 miles) off its coast, the military says. The cache included rockets and
  • Blog Source: www.paklinks.com
    Iran and Syria have denied Israeli claims that a ship seized in the Mediterranean was carrying Iranian weapons for Hezbollah militants.The Israeli military said the arms cache was one of the largest it had ever found. ...
  • Blog Source: www.makatilocal.com
    Iran and Syria deny arms claims. 4 November 2009 No Comment. Iran and Syria have denied Israeli claims that a ship seized in the Mediterranean was carrying Iranian weapons for Hezbollah militants. The Israeli military said the arms ...
  • Blog Source: westernexperience.wordpress.com
    Moallem says there were no arms on board. The IDF has released a video of the ship's weapons being unloaded in the port of Ashdod. There are rows and rows of mortar shells, rockets, and crates filled with grenades. ...
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    Israel considers Iran a strategic threat because of its nuclear program and long-range missile development, and says Tehran is lying when it denies it is building atomic arms. Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group, ... "Hezbollah categorically denies
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