Hezbollah denies link to arms ship
Updated on 05 November 2009
Israeli officials have tallied up hundreds of tons of weapons seized from a commandeered ship as Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas denied Israeli claims that the arms were meant for them.
Israeli naval commandos, acting on intelligence reports, boarded the Antiguan-flagged Francop before dawn in waters off Cyprus on Wednesday and discovered that the cargo included hundreds of crates of rockets, missiles, mortars, anti-tank weapons and munitions.
The arms shipment was the largest Israel has ever seized, and it shone a spotlight on dangerous tensions between Israel and Iran.
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