Serbia and Albanian media have published reports about illegal arms trafficking and smuggling originating from the Balkan region toward several countries, including Iraq and Lebanon.
The reports accused officials in both governments - Iraq and Lebanon - as well as Hizbullah of involvement.

Serbianna newspaper said Israeli intelligence monitored late in 2009 the sale of 6,000 Katyusha rockets type 107mm by the Albanian government to Chad and Iraq, before it turned out that a large number of these missiles had been in the hands of groups fighting Americans in Iraq.

This raised doubts that Hizbullah may have obtained some of these rockets.

The Gazeta Tema, a pro-opposition Albanian daily, meanwhile, accused Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and former Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu of involvement in buying a quantity of anti-aircraft missiles worth $4 million from the Ukraine and Albania without Albania's need for them.

According to the newspaper, anti-aircraft missile systems, including SA Igla 16 and SA 18 with a range of up to 5,000 feet, are equivalent to U.S. Stinger missiles, which have reached Albanian stores before disappearing again after a Lebanese cargo company took charge of shipping them abroad.

It quoted intelligence sources as saying Hizbullah resorts to this company -- which serves as the foreign operations branch of Hizbullah -- to assist the Shiite group in the transfer of arms purchased from the former socialist countries, including Albania.

Gazeta Tema pointed out that a number of Bosnians are involved in these operations, including Damir Vazeljk.

A report in Miami News Times had said the trial of Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, 21, came to raise further doubts about the likelihood of his involvement in the arms shipment to Hizbullah from Albania after it became clear that his partners in Albania were engaged in the same kind of work and with the persons involved in the shipment of these weapons.