Posted on 03/30/2011 5:03:31 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Israeli naval commanders have seized a ship containing weapons to arm terrorists, a ship linked to Iran and further proof of its clandestine arms-smuggling networks.
On Tuesday, Israeli naval commanders boarded the Victoria, a German-owned container ship operated by French shipping giant CMA-CGM, some 200 miles off the coast of Al-Arish, Egypt.
The Israelis came equipped with a list of 39 containers, which they believed contained weapons bound for Hamas in the Gaza strip. And they were right.
Neatly stacked beneath sacks of lentils and cotton in three of the containers, they found crates full of long-range mortars as well as C-704 radar-guided anti-ship missiles that would have given Hamas the ability to sink Israeli navy ships at distances of up to 35 kilometers.
Israeli military spokesman called the Chinese-made missiles “strategic weapons,” and brought the ship into Ashdod for further inspection. In all, they seized more than 25 tons of weapons they believed were intended for Hamas.
Two days later, authorities in Malaysia announced they had seized two containers from on board a Malaysian ship bound for Iran that contained equipment for Iran’s nuclear program.
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They had the container numbers. The Israeli’s have an intelligence agency.
Regretfully ours died of misuse during Clinton’s reign.
Probably would have been a lot quicker if they had used naval commandos instead.
GO ISrael, Rock ON!!!
Why the weapons were really just a weird kind of plowshare.yea that’s it.
If bleeding hearts want people in Gaza to eat, they’d damn well better start shipping food WITHOUT embedded military hardware.
And, if Israel is REALLY serious, that ship will now be either become Israel-owned or towed to deep water and scuttled. All useful cargo from the compromised containers should be confiscated and sold in Israel to Israeli’s at bargain prices. The containers, themselves, should be sanitized, repainted and given outright to an Israeli cargo company.
There’s only ONE way to ensure this crap doesn’t happen: make it WAY too expensive for shippers to let it happen.
You start impounding, confiscating, or sinking ships and confiscating containers and cargo over this; I guarantee you’ll see 100% cargo inspection happening by ship and container owners.
Farm implements to buty Jews and Christians with..
Farm implements to bury Jews and Christians with..
Is this ANOTHER smuggling ship?
Israel had already announced intercepting one ship to Egypt from Syria via a Turkish port
This article is from March 21st...
You misspelled Carter.
Thanks. Just new details than when first reported. French and German connection not originally given. Reading the full article saw that this was in fact the/a ship that routed through Turkey.
I think this analysis is likely going to turn out far more accurate than anyone might guess.
I don’t know any other sources saying much of the same thing.
However, certainly GOD IS IN CONTROL.
And, all who touch Israel negatively will pay dearly.
That includes China.
However, I don’t see China as weak as this analysis seems to think of China.
China is prepared to trash 800 million people . . . and count on the rest rising to the top of the heap of the world in ruins. That is even the mentality of a lot of folks in the street at the lower levels of society.
THE CHINESE CULTURE, PEOPLE, ETC. is considered the paragon value and long overdue to rule the world.
” And, all who touch Israel negatively will pay dearly “ and Christ’s body ( his church ) i.e. Christians.
THX THX.
INDEED.
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