Across Asia: Lebanon

Hezbollah denies arms link

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group denied yesterday any connection with a shipment of weapons that Israel said it had intercepted on the high seas.

Israeli officials said on Wednesday that naval commandos had seized a ship carrying hundreds of tons of Iranian-supplied arms, including rockets, to the Shiite Muslim group. Israeli Commodore Ran Ben-Yehuda has said the arms shipment was enough to keep Iranian-backed Hezbollah supplied for a month of fighting.