Chinese Arms Latest
Rather than repeat what others have already dug up about the Chinese arms shipment, here’s a link to Sokwanele’s consolidated post on the issue – it has details of the current situation and will be regularly updated with news as the get it.
20. April, 2008 at 14:58
If one goes to the Lloyd’s maritime website:
http://www.lloydsmiu.com/lmiu/vessels/index.htm
It lists the Chinese ship in question, The An Yue Jiang as a casualty on the east coast of afirca – five hours ago! Could this be the Chinese Ship with the weapons. How sweat would this be!!!
20. April, 2008 at 17:19
Forgive the conspiritorial tone, but the reporting of the ship as a casualty could be a cover to rename the ship and revise the inventory. An Lue where are you? Soon to be appearing in Beira under a new name?
20. April, 2008 at 23:17
It does seem a bit too convenient to be coincidence – if it was a casualty through a genuine emergency, I’d be thanking divine intervention! Not sure what the practicalities of re-registering a ship under those circumstances would be, though – I’d like to think it shouldn’t be that easy.