{"id":15018,"date":"2009-10-13T09:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15018"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:19:28","slug":"german-flagged-vessel-busted-with-ammo-bound-for-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15018","title":{"rendered":"German-flagged vessel busted with ammo bound for Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfunction.typepad.com\/perfunction\/2009\/10\/us-warships-raid-german-freighter-carrying-arms-from-iran-to-hezbollah.html\">Cuffy Meigs<\/a> reported yesterday that US forces boarded a German-flagged ship bound from Iran to Syria with seven shipment containers of 7.62x39mm ammunition and the means to manufacture more. According to Cuffy, since Syria has it&#8217;s own means of manufacturing ammo, it was probably bound for Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contraband arms were off-loaded and secured in Malta, and the <em>Hansa India<\/em> is currently steaming off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal, presumably back to Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/1461\">Don Surber<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to wait and see what transpired. Maybe Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s government blew the whistle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this while Hillary Clinton is in Moscow trying to convice the Russians to help clamp down on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. I suspect that Iran and Hezbollah is in the midst of creating another diversion from the nukes by provoking Israel to stage another invasion of Syria, since it was Gaza&#8217;s turn earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/israelmatzav.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/us-troops-board-german-ship-carrying.html\">Israel Matzav<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier on Monday, I reported that Britain had decided to boycott Islamic Republic of Iran shipping lines. I guess now we know why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/13\/us-caught-german-ship-running-arms-to-iran\/\">Ed Morrissey asks<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What else do German ships transport into and out of Iran?  What else have we not caught?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fat lot of good more sanctions to punish Iran will do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuffy Meigs reported yesterday that US forces boarded a German-flagged ship bound from Iran to Syria &hellip; <a title=\"German-flagged vessel busted with ammo bound for Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15018\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">German-flagged vessel busted with ammo bound for Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}