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Arms shipment haunts South Africa’s past and future
A Danish freighter off Fort Elizabeth carries 25,000 AK47s and 14 million rounds bought from Armscor by Lebanese intermediary Eli Wazen. End-user certificates are disputed as the ship headed to Beirut then to Yemen. Investigations unfold as Mandela’s visit to Washington highlights a widening scandal and questions about Armscor’s covert trade.
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