South African dock workers are refusing to unload a shipment of arms from China destined for Zimbabwe.

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union said it did "not agree with the position of the government not to intervene".

Reports say the Chinese cargo ship An Yue Jiang, anchored off Durban, is carrying 3m rounds of ammunition, 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades and 2,500 mortar rounds.

Thanks for that jrj, I was wondering about the Chinese and Russian bad attitude towards the Zimbabwe situation, and lone behold, it comes down to Arms Sale.. now isnt that a shocker!!..

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The world needs to gets their A*** into gear
this fool mugabe uses these weapons on its own people all arms sales should stop now!!!
i surpose human rights is not big in the minds of the chinese leaders anyway

Considering what they do to their own, Id have to agree..

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Its kinda funny that "Lord of War" was just aired here in Finland.

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Talk about making dough.........I worked for Manley Valve chrome plating valves for the Patriot missles and didn't make 1 1000th as much money but you can rest assured my valves killed more ragheads. If you want to be a smart *** and ask me if I feel quilty...... Fvck NO. My valves in those missles kept OUR troops safer. Hooah?

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Killed a few RAF piolts aswell.....cheers for that.......human error i guess....not your valves....only joking......just call it friendly fire from a brit

Patriot??? what are those and how come they have killed British airmen,i dont want to sound stupid but i dont understand

Patriot Missle Batteries are basically Anti Aircraft Missiles, which are advanced enough to shoot down modern fighter jets. jrj's reference was to a friendly fire incident "Blue on Blue" in Iraq which saw an American Anti Aircraft Battery fire a Patriot Missle at a British Tornado returning from a bombing missing behind Iraqi lines. The plane was destroyed and the two man crew killed. Thats the only blue on blue with British Aircrew Im aware of. A horrible accident.... nothing more...

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It was ment as a joke really......friendly fire in this case means having the crack ......i say it to most americans when im pulling their leg.......
if its effectiveness against high performance aircraft was in doubt.......i guess its not now...

link...........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot