{"article":{"id":223653,"heading":"1\/9 Palestine Watch: U.S. covertly shipping arms to Israel","author":"Lee Siu Hin - Peace NO War Network","created":"2009-01-11 03:15:12","modified":"2009-01-12 02:17:13","last_modified":"Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:17:13","article":"
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\r\n U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel\r\n By Stefano Ambrogi - Reuters
\r\n Friday Jan 9, 2009\r\n http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/usTopNews\/idUKTRE50875320090109\r\n LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to\r\n deliver hundreds of tons of arms to Israel from Greece later this month,\r\n tender documents seen by Reuters show.\r\n The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) said the ship was to\r\n carry 325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed as\r\n \"ammunition\" on two separate journeys from the Greek port of\r\n Astakos to the Israeli port of Ashdod in mid-to-late January.\r\n A \"hazardous material\" designation on the manifest mentions\r\n explosive substances and detonators, but no other details were given.\r\n \"Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot,\"\r\n one broker said, on condition of anonymity.\r\n \"This (kind of request) is pretty rare and we haven't seen much of\r\n it quoted in the market over the years,\" he added.\r\n The U.S. Defense Department, contacted by Reuters on Friday in\r\n Washington, had no immediate comment.\r\n The MSC transports amour and military supplies for the U.S. armed forces\r\n aboard its own fleet, but regularly hires merchant ships if logistics so\r\n require.\r\n The request for the ship was made on December 31, with the first leg of\r\n the charter to arrive no later than January 25 and the second at the end of\r\n the month.\r\n The tender for the vessel follows the hiring of a commercial ship to\r\n carry a much larger consignment of ordnance in December from the United\r\n States to Israel ahead of air strikes in the Gaza Strip.\r\n A German shipping firm which won that tender confirmed the order when\r\n contacted by Reuters but declined to comment further.\r\n CHARTERS \"RARE\"
\r\n Shipping brokers in London who have specialized in moving arms for the\r\n British and U.S. military in the past said such ship charters to Israel were\r\n rare.\r\n Israel is one of America's closest allies and both nations regularly\r\n sell arms to each other.\r\n A senior military analyst in London who declined to be named said that,\r\n because of the timing, the shipments could be \"irregular\" and\r\n linked to the Gaza offensive.\r\n The ship hired by the MSC in December was for a much larger cargo of\r\n arms, tender documents showed.\r\n That stipulated a ship to be chartered for 42 days capable of carrying\r\n 989 standard 20-foot containers from Sunny Point, North Carolina to Ashdod.\r\n The tender document said the vessel had to be capable of \"carrying\r\n 5.8 million pounds (2.6 million kg) of net explosive weight,\" which\r\n specialist brokers said was a very large quantity.\r\n The ship was requested early last month to load on December 15.\r\n In September, the U.S. Congress approved the sale of 1,000 bunker-buster\r\n missiles to Israel. The GPS-guided GBU-39 is said to be one of the most\r\n accurate bombs in the world.\r\n The Jerusalem Post, citing defense officials, reported last week that a\r\n first shipment of the missiles had arrived in early December and they were\r\n used in penetrating Hamas's underground rocket launcher sites.\r\n (Reporting by Stefano Ambrogi; editing by Michael Roddy)\r\n  \r\n
\r\n U.S. says arms shipment to Israel not\r\n linked to Gaza\r\n By Stefano Ambrogi - Reuters
\r\n Friday, January 9, 2009\r\n http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/usPoliticsNews\/idUKTRE50874B20090110
\r\n \r\n LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has sought to hire a merchant ship\r\n to deliver ammunition to Israel this month, tender documents show, but the\r\n Pentagon said the shipment was not linked to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.\r\n A Pentagon spokesman said the ammunition was for a U.S. stockpile in\r\n Israel. The U.S. military pre-positions stockpiles in some countries in case\r\n it needs supplies at short notice.\r\n In the tender documents, the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC)\r\n said the ship was to carry 325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed\r\n as \"ammunition\" on two separate journeys from the Greek port of\r\n Astakos to the Israeli port of Ashdod in mid-to-late January.\r\n Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said he would\r\n not comment on shipping routes for security reasons but confirmed a shipment\r\n of ammunition to Israel was planned.\r\n \"The delivery of ammunition is to a pre-positioned U.S. munitions\r\n stockpile in Israel in accordance with a congressionally authorized 1990\r\n agreement between the U.S. and Israel,\" Ryder said.\r\n \"This previously scheduled shipment is routine and not in support\r\n of the current situation in Gaza.\"\r\n The shipment originated in the United States, Ryder said. He provided no\r\n further details on the intended cargo.\r\n A \"hazardous material\" designation on the manifest mentions\r\n explosive substances and detonators but gives no other details.\r\n The request for the ship was made on December 31, with the first leg of\r\n the charter to arrive no later than January 25 and the second at the end of\r\n the month.\r\n The tender for the vessel follows the hiring of a commercial ship to\r\n carry a much larger consignment of ordnance in December.\r\n A German shipping firm which won that tender confirmed the order when\r\n contacted by Reuters but declined to comment further.\r\n (Additional reporting by Andrew Gray in Washington)\r\n
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