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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (1411)	1/6/2002 8:22:22 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

The takeover of the "Karine A" ended intelligence surveillance of the ship and yielded a large amount of concrete information from the investigation of the ship's crew. The information shows with certainty that the ship was purchased by Adal Mugrabi, the head of the PA's procurement department, and that the acquisition was supervised by Omar Acawi, a colonel in the PA naval police, and Fathi Razam, the deputy commander of the PA's naval police. The purchase was financed by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's senior finance official, Fuad Shubaki. The ship was purchased in Bulgaria for $400,000 and was brought to Port Sudan, where it was joined by the crew from Cairo. In Sudan, the ship was loaded with regular cargo, which was unloaded in Dubai, en route to the Iranian-owned island of Kish, where it was loaded with the weapons. From there, it continued to the Red Sea, in an attempt to cross the Suez Canal and to unload the weapons in floating containers in the direction of Gaza and El Arish. The nine Jordanian and Egyptian crew members on board the ship were not let in on the secret. During the loading of the ship near Kish, one of the crates broke and its contents fell out on board the ship. The seamen who saw the weapons said that they wanted to go ashore. Their commanders, four Palestinians including one who was trained by the Hezbollah naval wing, told them that from that point on, "there is only one way to get off the ship - with a bullet in the head." haaretzdaily.com