An arms expert said Monday he believed the ship was carrying weapons to Somalia, in contravention of a U.N.arms embargo.

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But Andrew Mwangura of the piracy specialist group East African Seafarers' Assistance Program says he believes the ship is one of the regular weapons carriers circumventing the U.N.arms embargo on Somalia.

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Of 502 violations of U.N. arms embargos only one has resulted in a conviction.

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Does the U.N. arms embargo restrict the United States from sending arms to the Libyan rebels in the east?

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The U.N. arms inspectors were in Iraq for more than seven years.

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