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US and allies brace for weapons trafficking in high seas
Agence France-Presses via Yahoo News Singapore ^ | August 22, 2005 | Unattributed
Posted on 08/21/2005 6:57:02 PM PDT by gpapa
It was a scenario straight out of a Tom Clancy spy novel.
The United States passed on intelligence to its allies that dangerous chemicals could be shipped from a Northeast Asian country to a port in the Arabian Gulf.
Japan sent out information that some ships fitting the profile of the suspect vessels had been monitored heading for their destination via the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca.
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