Gun smugglers' trail leads through Prague to Mideast

Boston Globe ^ | October 15 2002 | ian Whitmore

[knighthawk]

PRAGUE - The suspected arms smugglers were busted around daybreak.

In an early morning raid, Czech police in Prague arrested two alleged weapons traffickers, a 28-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, and confiscated a catalog offering Russian-made guns, tanks, missile carriers, warplanes, and naval vessels to prospective Middle Eastern clients.

A few hours later, German police in the Black Forest hamlet of Pforzheim apprehended the pair's alleged boss, a Canadian citizen of Russian origin who used the alias Arthur Anderson.

The group, police say, had been operating out of the Czech Republic for three years, organizing the sale of Russian- and Bulgarian-made weapons to ''Arab countries on which an arms embargo is imposed.'' Although police would not confirm it, analysts and officials here suspect Iraq is one of those countries.

[knighthawk]

Europe-list

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[Freee-dame]

ping

[hosepipe]

somebody has'nt heard of TOW missles or Hellfire or
even Daisycutter technology... tanks are targets these days..

[knighthawk]

Saddam still tries to keep his fleet of T-55's and T-72's running. Don't know why, but they still believe they can be effective.

[hosepipe]

[ "Saddam still tries to keep his fleet of T-55's and T-72's running. Don't know why, but they still believe they can be effective " ]

3rd world status symbols......
The RG goose steps around like storm toopers....
Looks good to a 3rd world religion though.
Saadam could care lees about B-muslim-ony. But hes glad the mullahs keep the people real dumb and compliant. He's the Sheik of Arabbbbby...