Weapons including AK-47 assault rifles and rocket launchers were found aboard a small stateless fishing boat bound for Somalia on February 27. Royal Australian Navy
More than 2,000 weapons including assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and mortar tubes were found hidden under nets aboard a small fishing boat bound for Somalia, American and Australian officials said Monday.
A team from Australian frigate HMAS Darwin discovered the cache last month some 195 miles off the coast of Oman.
The U.S. Navy believes the boat had set off from Iran and that the crew were Iranian, Lt. Ian McConnaughey, a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, told NBC News in an email.
McConnaughey said an initial assessment indicated the weapons were destined for Yemen to be used by Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels in the country's civil war.
The weapons were discovered aboard a dhow on Feb. 27 but the find was only announced Monday.
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WNU Editor: Who says it was going to Somalia .... maybe it was going to Yemen?
Update: Just found a UPI post that is speculating the same thing .... Australian navy seizes 2,000 weapons possibly en route to Yemen's rebels (UPI).
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Huge weapons haul seized heading for Somalia -- News 24
Weapons seized by Australia may have come from Iran, intended for Houthis -- CNN
3 comments:
As ususal, b at MoA rips the US Propaganda apart:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/03/us-central-command-promotes-the-war-on-yemen-where-al-qaeda-is-the-only-winner.html#more
Shipping ancient Ak's and RPG's (1986 era) to Yemen is like shipping low grade coal to Newcastle.
So it was going to Yemen? Some rifles?
from the Angry Arab: US-UK-Saudi achievement in Yemen
"The war has done particular damage to infrastructure—including reservoirs, airports, electric power stations, bridges and roads, markets, factories, stadiums, and hospitals. The education sector has been hit especially hard, with 39 universities damaged, 810 primary and secondary schools damaged, and another 3,809 closed. About 85 percent of the population of 27 million is in dire need of food, water, medicine, and fuel. Over 2.5 million Yemenis are displaced, and the attacks have killed or injured more than 23,000 civilians—among them thousands of women and children—using internationally prohibited weapons such as cluster bombs, as documented by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International."
It's BS (as usual). The Houthis get what they need in country. It's the Saudis who have to bring things, and men, in from abroad.
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