AXIS OF EVIL

Arms shipment to Syria halted (JTA)
A North Korean shipment of air-defense systems that may have been on its way to Hezbollah was intercepted en route to Syria. A ship carrying 18 truck-mounted mobile radars and three command vehicles was stopped this week while docked in Cyprus after Interpol issued an arms-smuggling alert. Local authorities said legal deliberations were under way on what to do with the shipment. During its war this summer with Israel, Hezbollah lost a large number of gunmen and ground missiles to airstrikes.