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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 16 november 2022
U.S. Navy: 70 tons of missile fuel from Iran to Yemen seized

By JON GAMBRELL a traditional wooden sailing
Associated Press vessel known as a dhow in
DUBAI, United Arab Emir- the Gulf of Oman on Nov.
ates (AP) — The U.S. Navy 8, the Navy said.
said Tuesday it found 70 During a weeklong search,
tons of a missile fuel com- sailors discovered bags of
ponent hidden among ammonium perchlorate
bags of fertilizer aboard a hidden inside of what ini-
ship bound to Yemen from tially appeared to be a
Iran, the first-such seizure shipment of 100 tons of
in that country’s yearslong urea.
war as a cease-fire there Urea, a fertilizer, also can
has broken down. be used to manufacture
The Navy said the amount explosives.
of ammonium perchlo- The dhow was so weighted
rate discovered could fuel down by the shipment that
more than a dozen me- it posed a hazard to near-
dium-range ballistic mis- by shipping in the Gulf of
siles, the same weapons Oman, a route that leads
Yemen’s Iranian-backed from the Strait of Hormuz,
Houthi rebels have used to In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors inventory urea and ammonium perchlorate found the narrow mouth of the
target both forces allied to on a dhow intercepted in the Gulf of Oman on Nov. 9, 2022. Persian Gulf, out to the In-
the country’s international- Associated Press dian Ocean.
ly recognized government Islamic Republic’s theoc- The Houthis and Iran’s mis- for Navy’s Mideast-based The Navy ended up sinking
and the Saudi-led coalition racy. Tehran blames for- sion to the United Nations 5th Fleet, told The Associ- the ship with much of the
that supports them. eign powers rather than did not respond to requests ated Press. “The unlawful material still on board due
The apparent rearming its own frustrated popula- for comment. transport of weapons from to the danger, Hawkins
effort comes as Iran has tion for fomenting the pro- “This type of shipment and Iran to Yemen leads to in- said.
threatened Saudi Ara- tests, which have seen at just the massive volume of stability and violence.” The Sullivans handed over
bia, the United States and least 344 people killed and explosive material is a seri- The U.S. Coast Guard ship the four Yemeni crew
other nations over the 15,820 people arrested ous concern because it is USCGC John Scheuerman members to the country’s
monthslong protests call- amid a widening crack- destabilizing,” Cmdr. Timo- and guided-missile destroy- internationally recognized
ing for the overthrow the down on dissent there. thy Hawkins, a spokesman er USS The Sullivans stopped government on Tuesday. q

Experts blame genetic

mutation for Australian

girls’ deaths

SYDNEY (AP) — Two genetic experts told an inquiry in
Sydney on Tuesday that a rare genetic mutation prob-
ably caused the deaths of two daughters of an Austra-
lian woman who was convicted of killing them. The in-
quiry is examining new scientific evidence that Kathleen
Folbigg’s four young children may have died of natural
causes between 1989 and 1999. Folbigg, now 55, was
found guilty in 2003 of three charges of murder and one
of manslaughter. But growing numbers of scientists are
convinced that recent genetic breakthroughs have cre-
ated reasonable doubt of her guilt.q

Professor Mette Nyegaard, left, and Professor Michael Toft
Overgaard return from a break for the second inquiry into
Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions for killing four of her children in
Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.
Associated Press