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Israeli navy seizes ship, 300 tons of weapons
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Published: November 5, 2009
Updated: 11/05/2009 12:05 am
JERUSALEM - Israel's navy seized a cargo ship yesterday, intercepting what officials described as 300 tons of weapons being smuggled from Iran to Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas. The haul was the largest in Israel's years of efforts to curb the flow of arms to its militant Middle East foes.
Hundreds of crates -- some opened to reveal rockets, mortar shells and boxes of grenades and bullets -- lined the dock in Israel's port of Ashdod hours after the predawn naval operation in the Mediterranean Sea near Cyprus. Israeli officials made the most of the seizure to bolster their claim that Iran, with Syria's complicity, is arming enemies of the Jewish state, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that bar Iran from exporting weapons. Iran and Syria reject the allegation.
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