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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Israel puts cache from seized arms ship on show

M-302 missilesDozens of rockets, boxes of hundreds thousands of bullets and nearly 200 mortar rounds will be opened for the world to see Monday as Israel puts weapons on show from a recently intercepted ship smuggling arms that it says exposes the “true face of Iran” which allegedly dispatched it.

The IDF says it found 40 long-range M-302 rockets aboard the Panamanian-flagged Klos-C it intercepted in the Red Sea last week, as well as 181 120-mm. mortar shells and approximately 400,000 7.62-caliber rounds.

IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the mortar rounds had been made in Iran.

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