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Rockets, mortars shipped from Iran via Lagos said destined for Hamas CAIRO - Hamas has been ordering rockets and mortars from Iran, security officials said. A suspected Hamas weapons shipment from Iran was found to have contained mortars and rocket launchers. The shipment was seized months after a ship from Iran docked in the Nigerian port of Lagos in July 2010. http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/images/2010/nigeriaweap ons.jpg A Nigerian soldier, right, gestures as he and others show journalists a seized weapons cache at Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Artillery rockets like those often used by insurgents in Afghanistan were inside an illegal arms shipment seized by authorities in Nigeria. <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101028/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_arms_seizure_8> AP/Sunday Alamba _____ "The shipment in question was booked as a 'shipper's owned container' and supplied loaded and sealed by the shipper, an Iranian trader who does not appear on any 'forbidden persons' listing," the shipper of the Iranian containers said. In a statement on Oct. 30, the French company CMA CGM detailed a shipment from Iran's Bandar Abbas to Lagos in mid-2010. The 13 containers transported to Lagos were said to have included grenades, mortars, rockets and other munitions. "They were registered as packages of glasswool and pallets of stone," the company said. CMA said the ship with the sealed containers was loaded in Iran. The company said it had been misled by a false cargo declaration. "The containers were loaded in Bandar Abbas and discharged in Lagos in July," the company said. In a briefing in Lagos, Nigerian police exhibited the weapons from the seized Iranian cargo. They included 107mm rockets found in Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip. The Iranian shipper had requested that the weapons containers continue to Gambia, CMA said. Nigerian authorities seized the containers in late October despite clearance for voyage. Israeli sources said the Iranian shipment was meant for the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has denied the weapons shipment while the Iranian embassy in Lagos said it could issue a statement later this month. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
