Monday, January 12, 2009

Eritrea gets implicated in Hamas rocket smuggling ring


israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) says Eritrea is among the countries through which weapons were being smuggled into Gaza to be used against Israel. “This is a complicated smuggling system that involves many different people around the world,” one official reportedly told an Israeli local paper.Israel’s security agency says it has learned, according to the report, that the Grad-model Katyushas were routed through Yemen, Eritrea, then moved to Sudan, and north to Egypt, and finally smuggled into Gaza.Eritrea on its part reacted fiercely to the report calling it a smear campaign by a “CIA agent”“In the wake of its futile attempts to defame Eritrea through linking it at one time with terrorism and at another with piracy, the Bush Administration is once again engaged in futile attempts to link Eritrea with so-called infiltration of armaments into Gaza, in a bid to cover up the tragic atrocities being committed in Gaza resulting from the Administration’s obstructionist policy,” an official website of the Eritrean government said. more..http://www.eastafricaforum.net/2009/01/11/eritrea-gets-implicated-in-hamas-rocket-smuggling-ring/

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