The Times (UK) online reported November 5 that Israeli special forces had seized 500 tons of Iranian weapons being transported aboard a cargo ship for delivery to the terrorist group Hezbollah.
The Times says, "A squad of small Israeli swift boats sped up to the Francop, an Antiguan-flagged freighter, just before midnight on Tuesday and boarded the craft off the coast of Cyprus. The crew offered no resistance and the charter company insisted that it had no idea there were large amounts of missiles, rockets, shells, grenades and assault rifles hidden in containers in the hull."
Come on, they didn't know about missiles and rockets? How big were the containers?
The story continues: "The haul was by far the largest interception of weapons smuggling since an Israeli raid in the Red Sea in 2002 on the Karine A, a ship carrying arms from Iran to Hamas, another Iranian proxy which now controls the Gaza Strip. Tuesday’s raid comes amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, whose President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has vowed the wipe the Jewish state off the map."
Iran's arming of Hezbollah is nothing new, and this is just one more example of Iran's destabilizing role in an already volatile region. Hezbollah is reported to have as many as 40,000 rockets, supplied by Iran, to be fired at Israeli cities.
The Times says, "Danny Ayalon, the Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, told The Times that the interception was just the 'tip of the iceberg', adding that Israeli intelligence showed an increasing volume and frequency of Iranian shipments to its militia allies in the region. 'We found dozens of containers, with hundreds of tonnes of arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran,' said Rani Ben Yehuda, the deputy naval commander."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6903092.ece
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It's also not surprising to have not seen this in any of the US mainstream media. Not surprising but quite sad.