Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Italian authorities seized a container full of weapons including Kalashnikov assault rifles and plastic explosives bound for the US from Saudi Arabia in May, Press reports said.
Il Mattino newspaper reported that the 'arsenal' was discovered during a search of a ship registered to an unnamed ex-Soviet republic which was travelling from Saudi Arabia to the US east coast.
In addition to 70 AK-47 assault rifles and plastics used in explosives, the shipment also contained launch pads for rockets, it said.
An inquiry is under way with the participation of US secret services, said an AFP report.
The report could not be confirmed.
Too bad they couldn't let them through and then see who came to pick them up.
Sure it wasn't just a normal shipment as protected by that 2nd amendment the US has? ;)
It is a bit funny they didn't do what they seem to do in a lot of those cases which is to replace the contents with duds then spring the receiver.. Replace all the machine guns with BB gun replicas and see what fun ensues.. haha