A bit overarmed...
From
DangerousMeta comes the link to this story in
Newsday:
bq. Authorities in southern Italy seized about 7,500 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other combat-grade firearms from a ship headed for New York, officials said Tuesday.
bq. The weapons -- AK-47s, AKM rifles and machine guns worth more than $6 million -- were found mixed in with properly labeled guns in cargo containers on board a Turkish-flagged ship that docked at the port of Gioia Tauro, a police official said.
bq. Documents accompanying the cargo indicated the weapons were destined for a company in the U.S. state of Georgia, the official said, declining to name the company.
This will be interesting to keep an eye on... The company in Georgia could have been planning to re-export them but still, it makes you wonder if they were already "sold" to people in the US.
Posted by DaveH at April 22, 2004 10:38 AM