Israeli Commandos Board and Seize Ship Carrying Iranian Missiles and Bombs

[Gratiot]

Israeli naval commandos seized a ship carrying hundreds of tons of Iranian-supplied arms, including rockets that can hit Israeli cities, to Lebanon's Hezbollah group, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.

Commodore Ran Ben-Yehuda, speaking as the search of the Antigua-flagged Francop was under way in Israel's Mediterranean port of Ashdod, said the weapons were found behind civilian goods in at least 40 shipping containers.

The shipment, he said, was enough to keep Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which fired some 4,000 rockets into Israel during a 34-day war in 2006, supplied for a month of fighting.

"The weapons came from Iran and were meant for Hezbollah," Ben-Yehuda told reporters at Ashdod port, where wooden crates of bullets, rocket-propelled grenades and variety of rockets which he said were unloaded from the ship filled a dock.

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[Airwolf]

They should just return the rockets to their rightfull owners........One at a time and in the same manner as Hezbollah would have sent them over to Israel.

[Gratiot]

They should just return the rockets to their rightfull owners........One at a time and in the same manner as Hezbollah would have sent them over to Israel.

  Great suggestion 

[Chris_]

A eye for a eye and all of that

[Happy Fun Ball]

They should just return the rockets to their rightfull owners........One at a time and in the same manner as Hezbollah would have sent them over to Israel.

I disagree. Send them over all at once.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Has to be quite a tale of intelligence gathering and espionage leading up to that, hope whatever sources they used are not compromised.

[asdf2231]

I'm pretty sure that they may be getting a friendly phone call from our NSA every now and then with suggestions to look at a particular vessel.  Somehow I'm pretty sure of that.

[Gratiot]

I'm pretty sure that they may be getting a friendly phone call from our NSA every now and then with suggestions to look at a particular vessel.  Somehow I'm pretty sure of that.

Surprisingly enough it's often reported to be the other way around.  I believe Bill Clinton, Bush senior and junior,  Rumsfield, and even George Tenet have been on the record stating that the military funding for Isarael isan absolutely a bargain if for only the massive amount of intelligence data that Israel shares with the US.  While Mossad may not be considered as mythical as it once was.  I thunk it was in Tenets book where he stated there human intelligence gathering capabilities are second to none, including us.

[WMD Owl]

I'm pretty sure that they may be getting a friendly phone call from our NSA every now and then with suggestions to look at a particular vessel.  Somehow I'm pretty sure of that.

The Somali Pirates use inside sources at maritime insurance companies to pick their targets.   They know position, course and speed.  

The Israelis have much better intel.

I'm going to check the routing on this ship.  They may have picked up this cargo in a Black Sea Port,  because if it was picked up in a Persian Gulf Port, the Israeli Navy usually does their intercepts in the Red Sea.

Hmm very intersting.. the containers in question were picked up in Egypt.

[Chris_]

A eye for a eye and all of that

Hey, if we're gonna play a game of Rochambeau, let's play.   We'll kick y'all in the nuts as hard as possible, then you can kick in the nuts.  Mmmmkay?

[DixieBelle]

They should just return the rockets to their rightfull owners........One at a time and in the same manner as Hezbollah would have sent them over to Israel.

I like your style.