14-04-2012, 12:08 PM
Report: German ship carrying Iranian weapons to Syria stopped at sea
According to Der Spiegel, cruiser was carrying ammunition to Syrian port city of Tartus; German government says looking into report.
By Ofer Aderet and The Associated PressTags: Syria Iran Bashar Assad
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A German ship carrying Iranian weapons was stopped the Mediterranean on Saturday, according to a report by Der Spiegel.
The ship, weighing 6,200 tons, was carrying weapons and ammunition to Tartus, Syria with the aim of arming President Bashar Assad's forces, the report said.[TABLE="class: features, width: 464"]
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The German government says it's looking into the report.Der Spiegel quoted shipping agent Torsten Lueddeke of Hamburg-based C.E.G.
Bulk Chartering as saying: "We stopped the ship after we received information
on the weapons cargo."He said the ship was chartered to Ukraine-based White Whale Shipping, and they said the ship was carrying pumps and similar equipment.Neither C.E.G. nor the ship's owner were immediately reachable. The German
Economy Ministry said it looks into all suspected embargo breaches but didn't yet have details of the case.Earlier on Saturday, human rights group said Syrian forces shelled two central districts in the battered city of Homs, the first bombings since a ceasefire took hold on Thursday."There was shelling last night in the old part of the city, in Jouret al-Shiyah and al-Qaradis. And I have heard eight shells fall in the past hour," Karm Abu Rabea, a resident activist who lives in an adjacent neighborhood, said on Saturday morning.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that shelling had wounded several people overnight.On Friday, Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But at that time the UN-brokered truce largely held up without the widespread, bloody offensives that have pushed the nation toward civil war.Activists said security forces killed at least six people, a lower-than-usual toll. The rallies, described as some of the largest in months, stretched from the suburbs of Damascus to the central province of Hama, Idlib in the north and the southern province of Daraa, where the uprising began in March 2011.http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/...a-1.424190
According to Der Spiegel, cruiser was carrying ammunition to Syrian port city of Tartus; German government says looking into report.
By Ofer Aderet and The Associated PressTags: Syria Iran Bashar Assad
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A German ship carrying Iranian weapons was stopped the Mediterranean on Saturday, according to a report by Der Spiegel.
The ship, weighing 6,200 tons, was carrying weapons and ammunition to Tartus, Syria with the aim of arming President Bashar Assad's forces, the report said.[TABLE="class: features, width: 464"]
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The German government says it's looking into the report.Der Spiegel quoted shipping agent Torsten Lueddeke of Hamburg-based C.E.G.
Bulk Chartering as saying: "We stopped the ship after we received information
on the weapons cargo."He said the ship was chartered to Ukraine-based White Whale Shipping, and they said the ship was carrying pumps and similar equipment.Neither C.E.G. nor the ship's owner were immediately reachable. The German
Economy Ministry said it looks into all suspected embargo breaches but didn't yet have details of the case.Earlier on Saturday, human rights group said Syrian forces shelled two central districts in the battered city of Homs, the first bombings since a ceasefire took hold on Thursday."There was shelling last night in the old part of the city, in Jouret al-Shiyah and al-Qaradis. And I have heard eight shells fall in the past hour," Karm Abu Rabea, a resident activist who lives in an adjacent neighborhood, said on Saturday morning.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that shelling had wounded several people overnight.On Friday, Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But at that time the UN-brokered truce largely held up without the widespread, bloody offensives that have pushed the nation toward civil war.Activists said security forces killed at least six people, a lower-than-usual toll. The rallies, described as some of the largest in months, stretched from the suburbs of Damascus to the central province of Hama, Idlib in the north and the southern province of Daraa, where the uprising began in March 2011.http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/...a-1.424190
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