Nigeria reports seized Iranian arms shipment to UN

Posted on 17/11/2010 by terrortrends

Nigeria has reported its seizure of a shipment of arms from Iran to the United Nations Security Council.

The Nigerian authorities discovered the weapons, including rocket launchers and grenades, last month in containers labelled as building materials.

The France-based shipping company CMA CGM which transported the shipment said it was hidden in containers labelled as building materials and attempts were made to send it to Gambia before the Nigerian police seized it.

Of course, if CMA CGM wasn’t doing business with the ayatollahs in the first place, they could be certain that the Iranians weren’t smuggling arms through their services, couldn’t they?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11765935

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JFK Airport Terror Plotter Linked to Iran

Posted on 08/08/2010 by terrortrends

Two suspects were convicted in Manhattan for a terrorism conspiracy that revealed ties to Iran and Venezuela.

According to the trial evidence, the plot members attempted to enlist support for the plot from prominent international terrorist groups and leaders, as well as the government of Iran, including Abu Bakr, leader of the Trinidadian militant group Jamaat Al Muslimeen, and Adnan El Shukrijumah, an al-Qaeda leader.

In February 2007, Russell Defreitas recruited Abdul Kadir to join the plot because Kadir, a former member of the Guyanese parliament, was an engineer and had connections with militant groups in Iran and Venezuela. During cross-examination at trial, Kadir admitted that he regularly passed information to Iranian authorities and believed himself bound to follow fatwas from Iranian religious leaders

Defreitas was arrested in New York on June 2, 2007. Kadir was arrested in Trinidad aboard a plane headed to Venezuela, en route to Iran.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2684-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2010m8d8-JFK-terror-plot-Convicted-terrorists-linked-to-Iran-and-Venezuela?cid=examiner-email

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Osama bin Laden’s son tells of life in secret lair and claims his brothers are in Iran with knowledge of the regime

Posted on 24/12/2009 by terrortrends

Six of Osama bin Laden’s sons have been living together in Iran for eight years – with the full knowledge of the regime, it was claimed yesterday.

The terror chief’s son Omar, who has a British wife, said the family phoned him from their secret compound near Tehran last month.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/24/we-ve-found-bin-laden-s-family-hiding-in-iran-115875-21920095/?

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