A new U.N. report, to be published later this week, details Liberia's U.N. arms embargo violations. According to the report, Liberia bought over 200 tons of arms and ammunition during the summer. The arms were allegedly laundered through a Belgrade arms dealer and Nigeria.

As revealed by Reuters, the experts' report states that six cargo planes delivered the arms to Liberia's Roberts International Airport between June and August. The shipments included old Yugoslav stocks, supplied by an arms dealer from Belgrade. The dealer was identified by the report as Temex.

The report does not establish where Liberia got the money to buy arms.

The experts' panel that wrote the report was formed by the UN Security Council to monitor the imposed embargo, which includes an arms embargo, a ban on diamond exports and a travel ban on Liberian President Charles Taylor. The UN is accusing Liberia of supporting and fueling the civil war in Sierra Leone by trading weapons for diamonds.

Oddly, the smuggled arms also reached the main Liberian armed opposition, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), which started an armed revolt two years ago.

The Security Council is due to review the sanctions next month, but lifting them, especially after this report, seems unlikely, though Liberia is pushing hard for the arms embargo to be lifted.