Original source URL: http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/september/09_29_1.html CYPRUS RELEASES SAM RADARS FOR SYRIA NICOSIA [MENL] -- The Republic of Cyprus has ended a three-week deadlock and released a shipment of surface-to-air missile radar systems to Syria. Officials said the Nicosia government decided to enable a Panamian-flagged ship to resume its journey and deliver North Korean air defense systems to Syria. The North Korean shipment was intercepted on Sept. 5 in wake of an alert by Interpol. "The Syrians did what we asked them and then the ship was released," an official said. "There was a discrepancy on the ship's manifest, but the contents were not illegal." Officials said the Gregorio-1 ship episode was resolved in talks with Damascus over the last two weeks. During a Sept. 15 visit, they said, a Syrian delegation applied for and received an export permit for the unidentified SAMs. NOTE: The above is not the full item. This service contains only a small portion of the information produced daily by Middle East Newsline. For a subscription to the full service, please contact Middle East Newsline at: •••@••.••• for further details. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Blogs: cyberjournal forum http://cyberjournal-rkm.blogspot.com/ Achieving real democracy http://harmonization.blogspot.com/ for readers of ETM http://matrixreaders.blogspot.com/ Community Empowerment http://empowermentinitiatives.blogspot.com/ Blogger made easy http://quaylargo.com/help/ezblogger.html
