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Pirates Get Rocket Launchers
On board the Ukrainian-owned ship Faina, which was captured by Somali pirates at the end of last month, were six multiple-launch rocket systems with ammunition, in addition to 33 T-72 tanks, Interfax reports, citing members of a Ukrainian Supreme Rada temporary commission on illegal arms trade.
RIA Novosti quotes commission head Valery Konovalyuk as saying that there were portable ballistic missile launchers on the Faina. Konovalyuk expressed concern that the weapons would be obtained by terrorists from the pirates.
The Faina was taken over by pirates in the territorial waters of Somalia on September 25. According to official information from Kiev and Nairobi, the tanks it was carrying were destined for Kenyan authorities. Several independent sources claimed, however, that Ukraine was selling the weapons directly or indirectly through Kenya to Sudan. There is a UN sanction against arms sales to Sudan in effect.
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