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| Israeli Intelligence Identifies New Explosives Route from Sudan |
| 2003-06-26 |
| Palestinian insurgents have found a new route for importing explosives to the Gaza Strip. Israeli intelligence sources said Sudan has become a major source for Palestinian weapons, explosives and detonators. They said several Palestinian insurgency groups based in Sudan arrange for shipments of material from Khartoum through Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula. Our friends the Egyptians.... From Sinai, the sources said, the weapons and explosives are smuggled through tunnels into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli assertion came as Greece seized a ship with a cargo of 680 tons of explosives and 8,000 detonators in the Ionian Sea. The Comoros-flagged Baltic Sky, monitored by an NATO task force, obtained the explosives and detonators from Tunisia and refueled in Istanbul. The explosives were said to have consisted of industrial-grade ammonium nitrate, which a Khartoum-based company said it ordered for road construction. Nice cover story, but probably getting old now. Greek officials said ammonium nitrate has been used in several major attacks on civilian targets, including the 2002 bombing of a nightclub in Bali. Egypt has long known of the weapons route, the sources said. But they said that despite appeals by Israel and the United States, the regime of President Hosni Mubarak has failed to stop the weapons flow. Can’t support the boomers and get $billions from the US, Hosni. Push will sometime come to shove. The intelligence sources did not detail Palestinian means to fund the weapons procurement. But on Tuesday, Israeli authorities handed down indictments against Islamic leaders that charged that they funneled at least $6.8 million to Hamas members in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The indictment said at least two of the Israeli Muslims were in contact with an Iranian liasion with Palestinian insurgency groups. The liasion was identified as Nabil Mahzoumeh, deported by Israel in 1985. Greek intelligence chief Pavlos Apostolidis has not ruled out that Al Qaida might have ordered the explosives. But he said the Tunisian shipment appeared too large for any one insurgency group. I’m shocked that I have been uuused by terrrorrrists in this way! I knew notting! "I cannot imagine how Al Qaida could take 680 tons of TNT, but on the other hand we cannot find out what it was intended for," Apostolidis said in a television interview. "So I cannot exclude that Al Qaida or another group close to it was the final destination of the shipment." Contractor in the Sudan
that’s rich! |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |