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Iran "Arms Ship" Bound for Gaza Downed Near Sudan

Haaretz Service

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If Israel really had found an Iranian ship bound for Gaza with arms they would have taken every possible measure to stop it without sinking it, board it with video cameras running and thus provide the world with evidence of their long standing claims of Iran supporting terrorism in Palestine and Iraq.  The fact that they didn't do this makes it a near certainty that they knew there were no munitions aboard the ship they sunk.  Unfortunately American leadership are accomplices and will not choose to draw this obvious conclusion.
 
If you were president wouldn't you  send divers -- an international team of divers with lots of on-sight international media coverage to determine the veracity of the Israeli claim?  Sp would I.
 
Dick Eastman  -
 
April 27, 2009  "Haaretz" -- --An Iranian vessel laden with weapons bound for the Gaza Strip was torpedoed off the coast of Sudan last week, allegedly by Israeli or American forces operating in the area, the Egyptian newspaper El-Aosboa reported on Sunday.

Anonymous sources in Khartoum told the newspaper that an unidentified warship bombed the Iranian vessel as it prepared to dock on Sudan before transferring its load for shipment to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

These sources said they suspects U.S. or Israeli involvement in the attack, but neither Washington nor Jerusalem have released a statement yet on the matter.

The Israel Air Force, meanwhile, is suspected of attacking a convoy of Iranian arms that passed through Sudan en route to Gaza in January, according to reports released in March.

American officials confirmed the IAF involvement in that attack, The New York Times later reported, abd said they had received intelligence reports that an Iranian Revolutionary Guards operative had gone to Sudan to help organize the weapons convoy said the report.

Israel has neither denied nor confirmed involvement in that incident.

In February, Cypriot authorities detained an Iranian arms ship en route Iranian arms ship en route to Syria, apparently upon request of the U.S. and Israel.

A search of the ship, which was sailing from Iran to the Syrian port of Latakia, found ammunition for T-72 tanks, used by the Syrian army, as well as various types of mortar shells, said a senior Israeli official.

The United States has claimed that the ship was carrying weapons from Iran to Hamas or the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah.

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