Hide-and-ship: Did the US know Libyan weapons were en route to Syrian rebels?
April 29, 2012 22:12
The US and NATO have some questions to answer about the massive weapons cargo seized by Lebanese intelligence officials, Franklin Lamb tells RT. He says they surely knew the shipment was on its way to Syrian rebels, but still turned a blind eye.
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Стари свет07.05.2012 02:52
What type of weapons were found?... Press TV: A final question for you Mr. Jaber. There was lately a ship that was confiscated by the Lebanese Army off Lebanese shores and it seemed to have weapons being smuggled, allegedly being smuggled, into Syria. Is this some kind of a plan and who do you think is behind this? Jaber: First of all, it is not the first ship which made traffic of weapons to Syria, but it is the first ship which has been captured. The question is: Did the UNIFIL not see before any ship and now the Lebanese Navy discovered this and the UNIFIL said it did cooperate with the Lebanese Navy. The important thing is the content, the kind of weapons on this ship, which is very sophisticated, and we know they had missiles against aircraft and missiles against armor, and they had many kinds of sophisticated explosives like C4, dynamite, etc.
hawk (unregistered) wrote in #15RT subscribers are blind someone please explain how america is to blame and not just give your feelings on america, because you dont have any proof im not saying america didnt have anything to do with this but guess what i dont have any proof "ITS NOT WHAT YOU KNOW ITS WHAT YOU CAN PROVE" ---------------No proof looks right. Just "allegation" and "suspicion." According to the article: 1) Somebo dy witnessed the ships origin (no, that is NOT PROOF of sender of cargo):There is an eyewitness, Hassan Diab, who saw the ship Lutfallah II, carrying a Sierra Leone flag, being loaded in Benghazi, Libya. We know that Qatar and Saudi Arabia control five warehouses in the area of Benghazi. So the great suspicion is that the intercepted arms are from those left over from the Libya campaign. ..,.2) No interest of parties in a search is also NOT PROOF:"What is remarkable about that adventure is that the Americans almost surely knew about it. NATO did. The Israelis did not touch the ship this time. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) did not stop this ship." UNIFIL's mission was to: Confirm the withdrawal of Israeli forces Restore international peace and security Assist the Lebanese government in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area. 3) means nothing... NOT PROOF: ... other shipments have come from Lebanon into Syria. It is enough just to wonder - Who is aligned with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and what is the motive to pass on searching? Blind indeed...
Why are there so many -300 ratings on this page? The same -300 on different comments by folks of different views and countries across the world. Imagine the probability of that happening!
lol, there is some moron reducing our votes, do you really think we care, we know there would be a plus in front...how pathetic, a loser who we can see has nothing better to do and no real job....lol.
RE:Teddyformusic , --------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------It is true that Europeans have used Christianity to fool and dominate the World and indeed,they continue to do so.But you will certainly agree with me that most of evil in which the Christian West has been involved, there is little or no evidence to prove that such evil has taken place in the name of God or religion.Not even the two World wars,Hitler for example had little or no regard for religion.The Western Christian Europeans have been committing horrendous crimes as criminals and thugs, religion has played no part in their evil actions.However,the Muslims have overtly declared that their actions,peaceful or violent,are guided by the almighty God and are in accordance with the Holy Scriptures.The lates Saddam Hussein,Osama Laden and Gaddafi claimed to be lead by God in whatever they did,bad or good.The mad and destructive Arab uprising was started and is being sustained in the name of Jihad,and more interestingly, Muslims are killing fellow Muslims.
It's not astonishing when the new dictators in Russia defend Arab dictators (weapons traders)and at the same time they won't let the Syrian people defend himself against the heavy weaponry (Russian made) of the Assad's family regime.I think the Russian govt has made a great mistake by helping the Syrian dictator against his people ,it seems that you still ignore the nature of the Arab spring revolutions .
Today twin bombs exploded in Idlib, killing a number of people. This
shipment of weapons stopped in Lebanon, if it made its way to Syria,
could have only contributed to more death and sorrow.
Only people who stubbornly refuse to see TRUTH about Syria with their own eyes still believe the total BS of Banksters-Zionist-EU -NATO-Washington DC (DC = District of Criminals) and of the Qatar-Saudi SalaFascist and WahaboNazi propaganda. Shame on you Qatar and Saudi, siding with Israel against fellow Muslims and against Christians in Syria. Clearly the terrorist thugs operating in Syria are armed, financed, paid, fed and cuddled by the above Axis of the Devil. Period.
hawk (unregistered) wrote in #14
funny how the americans are the bad guys here with NO PROOF. If there is please show me, because i missed it. America gets blamed for anything that happens now. I wonder were these weapons will be going now, maybe to the highest bider wake up people there is no more american, middle eastrian , russian,or anyother race or nationality anymore just green(money).they think they have done something this is just one ship out of many. wasnt it gaddafis own people who overthrew him.i bet you they wish they can have a do-over.one last thing b4 I go please show me sum PROOF and not just word of mouth
----------- ---------who are you to ask proof? what will YOU DO? if we show you the proof?in the past, we have showed you (RT and world community) CRIMES commnitted by USA, they had all kind of proof from video to Live interview by some AMERICAN girl in Georgia RESCUED by Russian military, from Georgian Military,
you simply won't even let her TALK and take it off the camera, We showed you YOUR AMERICA lies, showing videos from GREECE RIOTS and label it as this is happening in RUSSIA, what did you do? what will you do this time either? JUST SIT IN YOUR BASEMENT AND BE MISERABLE LIKE YOU ARE? THIS Labenese INTELLIGENCE officers are 99 times better then your are out of 100 times, given their worse, so I won't even mention how good they can be compared to you, when they are at their best. GO FIGURE, YOU ARE NO BODY.
International Community = US, UK, France and Israel.When you hear Susan Rice use that word just take your mind to the above.Libya is now a exporter of terror, thought they said Gaddafi was a bad guy, what do we call the NTC gang?Any arms embargo by the UN will surely be violated by NATO like we witnessed in Libya.
You are trying to pull religion into something that in the west had
little to do with religion(in america during those times do you really
believe that they built churches so they can go and pray? no! they were
busy killing and conquering, slavery had nothing to do with religon same
as world exploration. THE CHURCH DIDNT BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS
ROUND).
While islam IS BASED ON KILLING THE INFIDEL.
The west world IS NOT LEAD by religion. While muslims are.
All religions are diseases but islam is CANCER.
I am just pointing out that your logic for defending islam is faulty. Not trying to defend the west since they did stuff like killing indians with diseases and so on... but just trying to point out that RELIGION wars/influence kinda ended in western world with the Crusades. While it still continues as terrorist attacks in Islam and Genocide of African infidels.
haha:) You are confusing government(aristocra ts) and church. At that time church and religion didn't have as much influence as they did before (Crusades). But still they did spread religion around the world. Also immigration of Europeans to the new world, which ended in genocide of natives. But this is nothing unique to just westerners.
The islamic empires did the same, and were much worse.
Islam is peace, says the Muslims who insult other religions. Islam is peace said the Muslims who invaded Egypt and subjugated the Copts. Islam is peace they said to the Zorastrians who fled to India. Islam is peace said the Muslims who ransacked gr8 university of Buddhist- Nalanda. Islam is peace said the Muslims as they slaughtered
Hindus and Buddhists. Islam is peace said the muslims as they slaughtered the Sikhs & Armenians & Greeks. Islam is peace says the Muslims now as they.... Like the genocides of Bulgarians/Greeks/Se rbs and ethnic cleaning from their lands and Constantinople. Georgian kingdom devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions. Non muslims were killed or forced to convert. Muslims from some parts of the empire would be forcefully relocated on lands of others so regions could be controlled. Gen ocide of Christians in Iraq. Terrorist attacks on SCHOOLS in Russia. (killed 160+ kids in one school).
Even today the islamists kill the "infidels" like the black tribal people of Sudan - The infidels. Destruc tion of churches and calling for destruction of same is done by muslim and their "leaders"(Egypt/Serb ia...). Or turning churches into mosques.
Read more about genocide of Hindus and Buddhist & Sikhs by Muslims in the region of present day Afghanistan and India(plus Pakistan)...Look at Afghanistan and Pakistan today and compare them to their pre-Islamic past and you have the answer!
Can you believe that world's oldest university Taxila existed in the region called Pakistan? But that's true..long back when this region was populated by Hindus andBuddhists not Muslims.
hawk (unregistered) wrote in #14
funny how the americans are the bad guys here with NO PROOF. If there is please show me, because i missed it. America gets blamed for anything that happens now. I wonder were these weapons will be going now, maybe to the highest bider wake up people there is no more american, middle eastrian , russian,or anyother race or nationality anymore just green(money).they think they have done something this is just one ship out of many. wasnt it gaddafis own people who overthrew him.i bet you they wish they can have a do-over.one last thing b4 I go please show me sum PROOF and not just word of mouth
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to those who are WILLFULY BLIND == no amount of proof, reality, facts -- are useful. such people - including the US leaders -- "create" their own proofs to FIT into their notions and worldviews.... ex ample: it was the USA that ACCUSED - "without a doubt....we have the proof, we KNOW where they are -- IRAQ has weapons of Mass Destruction " " -- Dick Cheney and Company : "WE dont' want to wakeup one day and have MUSHROOM CLOUDS of Destruction over our cities" -- Condoleeza Rice - "hinting" that IRAQ HAD WMD's "about to reach" the USA ..... in such things -- FACTS : IRAQ , under STRICT obtrusive constant inspection - confirmed EVEN by the USA's OWN CIA -- was INCAPABLE of having WMD's but FACTS were not the CORRECT "proof" to the USA's WAR HUNGRY leaders ...... as british M5 intelligence ITSELF admitted: "the USA already decided to invade IRAQ....events are being MADE to FIT the plan"......
RT subscribers are blind someone please explain how america is to blame and not just give your feelings on america, because you dont have any proof im not saying america didnt have anything to do with this but guess what i dont have any proof "ITS NOT WHAT YOU KNOW ITS WHAT YOU CAN PROVE"
funny how the americans are the bad guys here with NO PROOF. If there is please show me, because i missed it. America gets blamed for anything that happens now. I wonder were these weapons will be going now, maybe to the highest bider wake up people there is no more american, middle eastrian , russian,or anyother race or nationality anymore just green(money).they think they have done something this is just one ship out of many. wasnt it gaddafis own people who overthrew him.i bet you they wish they can have a do-over.one last thing b4 I go please show me sum PROOF and not just word of mouth
I believe we now know, once again, who is behind it all.I wonder how much these outsiders pay the Syrians to overthrow their own government; especially when they are injured or killed while performing for the U.S., Britain, France, and the pigsty in Occupied Palestine, the four now calling themselves the "International Community."
Tom Sad wrote in #3
Both the ship and the weapons should be destroyed without further delay.The crew members should be dealt with according to the Lebanese laws.The evil international community talks of arms embargo on Syria only to weaken the Assad leadership. The Arabs in the Middle East are the greatest enemies of Islam and, indeed,they are worse than the devil which is mentioned in the Holy Koran. It is now very clear that Islam is all about violence and blood letting and has nothing to do with faith. It should be banned in all non Arab countries. Nigeri a must act decisively and ban the dubious religion to avoid more bloodshed and the senseless destruction of property.Islam should be strictly limited to Arabs in the Middle East so that the rest of the World can be peaceful.
=== ==================== ========= without defending Islam -- for I am not even religious and I don't believe in a "god" --
what explains the TWO WORLD WARS instigated and waged by and among and from the SEATS of Western "christian civilization?"
does "islam" explain the Destruction of the native indians by the CHRISTIAN european/americans? ...and further other destructions and subjugations and plunder of the lands of many OTHER NON-christian -- including NON-islamic -- cultures in EVERY REGION ON EARTH?
does Islam explain the THEFT of Australia by CHRISTIAN europeans from NON-islamic Aborigines?....
was it ISLAM that STOLE South Africa from the african natives -- subjecting them to generations of Cruel "Christian" ordered APARTHEID -- while enslaving them in mines a mile UNDER the earth for their native land's DIAMONDS?
WHICH countries have been INVADING and EXTRACTING the "black gold" and other natural resources from ARAB - and Islamic Lands in the middle east ? was it "islamic" ? or
CHRISTIAN Britain, Germany, France, USA, Italy...etc.?
with such a HISTORY -- in EVERY REGION --across EVERY religion or native cultures -- be it China, or India, or Middle East, or Africa -- etc....
EXACT LY which PART of the WORLD and its "religion" has waged wars of exploitation across CONTINENTS and across religions and cultures?
Hide-and-ship: Did the US know Libyan weapons were en route to Syrian rebels? ========= ======
Was the USA "created" from Extermination and Plunder of the land of the Native Indians?
has the USA been the world's biggest supporter of Fascist , Right-wing Regimes?
Does the USA Suppress Freedom and Democracy everywhere while PRETENDING to "export democracy?"
is the USA the SEAT of Wall STreet/Washington Consensus Disaster Capitalism...the SOURCE of Trashing the World Economy?
Is the USA the world's Self-appointed "policeman", preaching "freedom' at the point of a gun, economic warfare, and cultural and social assaults upon country after country in order to "give them freedom of choice" to be OBEDIENT to the world's "exceptional nation?" IS the USA the nation that proclaims with its behavior : "WE have to destroy your freedoms in order to PRESERVE them".....as with "we had to destroy a village to save it" -- in Vietnam?..... Did the USA LIE to the world about iraq's "WMD's" to justify the USA's "creative destruction" Project in Iraq --- and of course Libya, Syria, perhaps to follow IRan, etc?........
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Стари свет 07.05.2012 02:52
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johnny be good 03.05.2012 00:53
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стари свет 02.05.2012 02:35
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