Re: Two US warships escort Iranian ship carrying arms for Hamas out through Suez Canal

[St Louis Bob]

On Jan 23, 2:06 pm, aw...@blackhole.nyx.net (arthur wouk) wrote:
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> Two US warships escort Iranian ship carrying arms for Hamas out through
> Suez Canal
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> DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
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> January 23, 2009, 6:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
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> DEBKAfile's military sources report that a US Navy Coast Guard team this
> week boarded an Iranian arms ship flying a Cypriot flag in the Red Sea
> and found weapons in its hold.
>
> This was the first time an America warship had ever intercepted an
> Iranian vessel in international water. The incident activated the Memo of
> Understanding the former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice signed
> with Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni a week ago on actions to halt
> the flow of Iranian arms to Hamas as part of the Gaza ceasefire.
>
> The Iranian ship's captain showed the US boarding team documents
> recording the Syrian port of Latakia as its cargo's destination.
> DEBKAfile reports that both US and Israeli intelligence are certain the
> arms were bound for Hamas. But according to international law, the US
> Navy's Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, set up last week to combat piracy,
> was not authorized to confiscate the cargo or stop the ship because no
> enforcement mechanism was yet in place.
>
> After a few hours, therefore, the US force released the Iranian vessel
> and two warships escorted it out of Red Sea waters. The ship and its
> escort are due to enter the Suez Canal heading north Saturday night, Jan.
> 23, after being prevented from unloading its arms freight on the coast of
> Sinai or Gaza.
>
> Tehran has so far not reacted to the incident.
>
> DEBKAfile revealed last week that the new US task force policing the
> waters of the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Red Sea, under
> the command of Rear Adm. Terry McKnight, had been additionally assigned
> with intercepting Iranian ships smuggling arms for Hamas, often in
> conjunction with Somali pirates and Sinai Bedouin militias.
>
> Massed on the lead ship San Antonio is a helicopter detachment, a
> "surgical team" for dealing with small speedboats trying to hem the ship
> in and 14 Navy VBSS members, including two Navy boarding officers. The
> Coast Guard detachment is made up of eight members, all of them qualified
> as boarding officers.
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The next time around...I hope they make it.

[St Louis Bob]

Where are the pictures of the United States handing the Zionists
billions of dollars in military hardware? Oh that's right...Israel is
our dear dear friend..Puke!!