Posted on 08/30/2007 12:32:21 PM PDT by radar101
A West Hills man has pleaded guilty to an audacious plan to buy as many as 100,000 Uzis in the United States and sell them to officials in Iran's government.
Under a plea agreement reached this week, Seyed Mostafa Maghloubi, 49, acknowledged that he tried to obtain submachine guns and night vision goggles and ship them to Iran, in violation of U.S. laws prohibiting such transactions.
According to the plea agreement, Maghloubi's plan dated to at least October 2005 when he approached an unidentified individual and said he was interested in buying the weapons and goggles.
The individual, who was identified only as a cooperating witness for the government, brokered a meeting between Maghloubi and an undercover Los Angeles police detective who Maghloubi believed was an arms dealer.
During that meeting in February, Maghloubi said that he was interested in buying the items for Iran and that he had high-level contacts with government officials in that country, according to the plea agreement.
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Hang em.
The Iranians want Jewish made Uzis?
Um, not to be an ass, but isn’t the Uzi made by Israeli Industries? Guess them ragheads ain’t so strident when it comes to guns.
pragmatic, they are great weapons, plus who knows where they would eventually be sent (hizbollah?)
Heck. I clicked over here thinking he probably hid the weapons in his U.N. office.
Wrong thread.
The Judge needs to put this guy UNDER the jail.
Throw him in the can and toss away the key —
He can’t sell arms to terrorists, only the Government is allowed to sell arms to terrorists!
Thats a pretty common Amish name if membery serves me right.
They can't do that to our pledges. Only we can do that to our pledges.
You mean... his name is not Oliver North?
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