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On January 3rd, Israeli commandos boarded and seized a Palestinian cargo ship, the Karine A, in the Red Sea. The 4,000-ton vessel was loaded with 50 tons of arms from Iran destined for the Gaza Strip, controlled by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. The huge cache of arms and munitions was displayed for foreign journalists at Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat and presented as evidence of what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Mr. Arafat's "empire of lies."
The "terror ship" cargo reportedly included 3,000 pounds of plastic explosives, Russian Katyusha rockets, hand grenades, mines, mortars, rifles, and anti-tank missiles. Sharon charged that this helps ...
Source: HighBeam Research, PLO: Protected Lethal Organization; Despite their terrorist track...