No surprises here. North Korea happens to be the most insane nation in the world and Hezbollah is more armed then the majority of sovereign nations. Good intelligence work here and thanks to the Thai government for stopping that airplane. I guess that reach out to the world tyrants is not exactly working out as hoped for President Obama.
by Anne Barrowclough
The missile-laden plane on the tarmac at Bangkok Weapons on an arms-laden aircraft seized in Bangkok en route from North Korea last year were intended for sale to the militant Islamist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel’s Foreign Minister has claimed.
Avigdor Lieberman described North Korea, Syria and Iran as a new “axis of evil” during an official visit to Japan today.
He accused them of building and spreading weapons of mass destruction, adding that they posed “the biggest threat to world security”.
Mr Lieberman told reporters: “We saw this kind of cooperation only two or maybe three months ago with the North Korean plane in Bangkok with huge numbers of different weapons with the intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah.”
Mystery has surrounded the destination of the Ilyushin-76 aircraft, which was found to be carrying 35 tonnes of weapons including rockets and grenades when it was seized on landing for a re-fuelling stop at Bangkok on December 12.
Its East European crew told Thai officials that their aircraft carried nothing more suspicious than oil-drilling equipment. However a tip-off from foreign intelligence services — believed to be American — led to a search of the aircraft that uncovered the weapons hoard, while flight documents indicated the plane’s destination was Iran
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