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    Turkey: Russian ship carrying arms reached Syria

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Russian ship, allegedly carrying tons of weapons, made a dash for Syria after Cypriot officials allowed it to leave their waters, Turkish officials said Thursday.

    The ship had made an unscheduled stop in Cyprus Tuesday, technically violating an EU embargo on arms shipments to Syria, which has killed thousands in a crackdown on dissent.

    Cypriot officials — told by the ship's owners it was heading for Syria and Turkey — only allowed the ship to leave Wednesday after the owners said it had changed its destination for Turkey only.

    But Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal — citing information from the Turkish navy — said the ship had docked Thursday at the Syrian port of Tartus, which Russian warships use as a resupply stop.

    The St. Vincent and Grenadines-flagged ship, the Chariot, had apparently turned off its tracking device and the information could not be independently verified.

    The vessel, owned by St. Petersburg-based Westberg Ltd, had initially dropped anchor off the southern Cypriot port of Limassol due to high seas, drawing the attention of local officials who boarded to examine its cargo.

    They could not open and inspect four containers in the hold because of "the confined space" they were stored in, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, but officials nevertheless determined they were holding a "dangerous cargo."

    Cyprus state radio said the vessel was carrying "tens of tons of munitions" while Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a Westberg spokesman as saying that the Chariot was ferrying cargo owned by Russia's state arms trader Rosoboronexport.

    The spokesman said the cargo was listed as "dangerous" in the ship's manifest, but no further details were available.

    No one answered phones Thursday evening at the company which owns the ship.

    Turkey, which has become Syrian leader Bashar Assad's strongest critic, has imposed a trade and arms embargo on its southern neighbor.

     
    • Chiefen23  •  Morgantown, West Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      Russia delivering arms to Syria....This is news how?
      • Mohamed Issa 4 mths ago
        You are right..hehe.. It is like America delivering free F16 to Israel.
      • NELLY 4 mths ago
        just like NATO delivering arms to Rebels while violating their own UN embargo against Libya.
      • Average 4 mths ago
        Read the Russian state news, reports have been circulating for some time now that US and British commandos have been seen in Turkey near the border of Syria. The US and Britain are supplying arms and training to Syrian militias to overthrow the government of Syria. Russia is allied with the government in Syria and is trying to help prevent this. It's a proxy war of influence in the region. Covert ops are cheaper than overt operations and are not impacted as much by public opionion.
    • Viddy  •  Indiana, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      Russia is not part of the EU... the embargo is meaningless to them...
      • Alexis 4 mths ago
        It surely would be meaningless to Putin even if they were part of the E.U.. Putin must go, he cannot be trusted as any kind of partner with the United States, and apparently his own people. I'm so glad they've awakened over there. He is nothing but an old KGB style authoritarian dicatator.

        Miss Alexis
    • pikeguy  •  4 mths ago
      who'da thunk?
    • Asten  •  4 mths ago
      Lol, they'd fooled you idiots.
    • Damian  •  Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      The yahoo commentors stated yesterday the boat would still go to Syria when the original story came out. Thumbs up for Yahoo commentors reading an article for 2 minutes and being smarter than all of Cyprus's Officials put together!
    • Steve  •  Pioneertown, California  •  4 mths ago
      Yesterday the ship was allowed to leave Cyprus and to alter it's course to Turkey. What a bunch of idiots to believe that we all knew it was going to Syria so now what? I guess they fooled them!!!! Oh well more deaths in Syria
      • Daniel D Martin 4 mths ago
        I AGREE 100%
      • Daniel D Martin 4 mths ago
        Just like Obama thought by talking to Ahmedinayah ,Assad,Castro ,Chavez and North Korea he would convince them not to be tyrants
        Unbelievable that ourpeople could really be that naive
      • Kevin 4 mths ago
        They aren't going to the terrorist death squads that are doing the killing. They are going to the either the Russian naval base in Tartus or to the Syrian government.

        Right now al Qaeda flags fly over government buildings in Libya and we bombed them under the idea that they wanted democracy, not Sharia Law.

        Stop believing our corrupt, lying mainstream press or the western propaganda puppet al Jazeera that parrots the line saying the Syrian government is behind all these killings when is terrorist death squads from the Moslem Brotherhood.
    • RP  •  4 mths ago
      I would not be surprised if Russia sold ammunition to Assad, but I do not think that he is running short on ammunition either. He was not under any kind of international sanctions until recently and must have accumulated stockpiles of ammunition over the years. So, I am not sure what is really going on.
    • frank  •  4 mths ago
      said cyprus officials: we cannot let you take the guns to syria, we're really sorry. but if you were to choose another destination, say.. a country near syria, which is no eu member nor a eu threat... can't think of any right now.... you're free to go, sparing us of an international incident which could jeopardize the already tensed eu-russian relations.
      said captain of the boat: did i say syria? oh, no, my good sir, i meant turkey, yeah, we're taking the guns to turkey!
      said cyprus officials: we're sorry, we must have misunderstood. you're free to go!
      • greg 4 mths ago
        greek cypriots lie worse than Russians. They have been helping Assad to murder Syrian people.
    • Tariq  •  4 mths ago
      Russia supplies Iran with ammunition China buy their oil and we still trust both of them...why?
    • Jsn  •  4 mths ago
      Arms trading is a big business.
    • Diddley  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Oh come on when this story was on here yesterday we all knew that ship wouldn't go to Turkey. Now what are we to do, get all pissy at Russia? Russia is a lying dog and we all know it.
    • domenic  •  Carson City, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      Didn't see that one coming!! Note Sarcasm
    • SILLY  •  4 mths ago
      So now we all know what he have all know. The Russians are quietly supplying the Taliban
      and all the other groups weaponry to use against us, them, and everybody. What a bunch
      of hypocrites they really are. We know what America is doing but Russian, they deny every-
      thing.
    • Murat  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      Did not Russia just extend a few $B loan to the bankrupt Greek Cyprus? Nothing is free in life... Greeks did not even need much encouragement to help their good friends.
    • TTown  •  4 mths ago
      Typical, if the USA had done this the world would be in an uproar, but it's okay for the russians to do it... Remember this the next the USA is named as the instigator or war monger or war profiteer...
    • Bradley Pitman  •  4 mths ago
      Now you have to ask, What where all the French ships doing letting this ship into Syrian waters. The French patrol this water heavily. Smell anything here?
    • Todd  •  Ann Arbor, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      "killed thousands in a crackdown on dissent." You mean thousands of armed radical Islamic fighters who want to take control of the government and execute the native orthodox Christians.
    • pdp44734590j  •  4 mths ago
      Impose sanctions on Russia. Russia is supporting Syria, Iran and the muslim terrorists.
    • Evil eyes are watching me  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      War is imminent the Russian base in Armenia located close to the border with Georgia was actually moved to the Turkish border to contain Turkish forces attacking Syria. The USA will attack Iran; Iran has said they will bomb Turkey and Israel in return. Russia will protect Syria from Turkey or Israel and if Russia is attacked by the USA or Israel then WWIII will be declared assuming China to join Russia because they both have an alliance. Europe is useless they do not want to be involved in another devasting war seem that they had enough.
    • BIG K  •  Sioux Falls, South Dakota  •  4 mths ago
      It is a sad Day when the Countrys in the World help this Animal Assad to kill his own People . I spit on you Russia .
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