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Purveyor

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Mon Jan 16, 2012, 01:42 PM Jan 2012

Russian-Operated Arms Ship 'Docks' In Syrian Port [View all]

REUTERS - A Russian-operated ship carrying a cargo of ammunition has reached conflict-torn Syria after being temporarily halted during a refuelling stop in Cyprus, sources in Russia and Cyprus said on Friday.

A source in Cyprus, where the ship made a stop for refuelling on Tuesday, said the ship had given written assurances its destination would not be Syria but Turkey.

It was allowed to sail a day later, whereupon it dropped off conventional tracking systems, switched course and reached Syria on Thursday.

“It had bullets. There were four containers on board,” a Cypriot official told Reuters.

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