Posted on 10/30/2010 3:59:08 PM PDT by nuconvert
An illegal arms shipment including rockets and grenades discovered in Nigeria this week was loaded in Iran by an Iranian trader, the firm that operates the vessel that delivered it said on Friday.
Security agents this week intercepted 13 containers declared as building materials and discharged from the CMA CGM Everest vessel at the country's busiest port of Apapa in Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos.
"The shipment in question was booked as a 'shippers owned container' and supplied loaded and sealed by the shipper, an Iranian trader who does not appear on any 'forbidden persons' listing," said CMA CGM, which operates the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel.
CMA CGM, based in France, said the containers were loaded in Bandar Abbas, a southern port city of Iran, and discharged in Lagos in July.
But last week the shipper asked to have the containers reloaded and sent to the Gambia, a tiny west African country wedged inside Senegal, according to the firm.
Clearance had been obtained before Nigerian customs intervened and halted the shipment, according to CMA CGM.
Iranian embassy officials in Nigeria refused to comment, saying a statement would be issued later.
A Nigerian intelligence agency spokeswoman has said authorities were on heightened alert following October 1 twin car bombings in the capital that killed at least 12 people.
Ten of the containers opened so far contain an array of weaponry, customs spokesman Wale Adeniyi said, despite being declared as building materials.
CMA CGM said it has been cleared of any involvement in the illegal shipment and called itself the "victim of (a) false cargo declaration."
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Lol - after they can think up a good story.
We need to treat them nicer.
What have we done to make them hate us so? Maybe if we kissed their asses and disarmed ourselves and promised to obey sharia law they would love us! (I think I need a shower after that.)
If we are really, really, REALLY nice and give them everything we have and bow to their leaders....
They will kill us last!
What have we done to make them hate us so?.................................... Apparently they didn’t like the idea of the US Armed Forces advisers operating and directing artillery fire on their troops during the Iran/Iraq War. Also they didn’t like our support of the secular Shah. Remember, for the most part, it isn’t the people of Iran, it is the religious hatred of the Ayatollahs and Mullahs that control them. Once they get rid of their leadership you will see that they are mostly just like us. There is a movie out called “Nede”,(Spell???) it gives you an inside look at the Iranian people. My Iranian friends wish they could hang the Mullahs, as they have brought nothing but misery to Iran. Most of the fanatical Mullahs brought in to Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini were from???? Ans. Our good friends in Saudi Arabia, home of the Wahhabi.
And one of the very first things the Ayatollah did was to outlaw the private possession of firearms. He had his fanatical followers go from door to door and collect them.
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