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Old 02-12-2007, 10:38 PM   #1
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...13/wiran13.xml

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Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.

A Steyr HS50 rifle, Austrian supplied rifles, arms trade, Iran equipping Iraq insurgents
The Steyr HS50 is a long range, high precision rifle

The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.

The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.

Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.

Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.


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Old 02-12-2007, 10:41 PM   #2
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yeah, probably using computer parts from Hong Kong to communicate with eachother as well!!! ... let's send three carrier groups to surround Taiwan!!
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Is Halliburton still doing business with Iran?
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I say we send the 101st Airborne into Vienna and straighten out those American killin' Krauts!
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a 50 cal can easily shoot down a helicopter
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More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.

A Steyr HS50 rifle, Austrian supplied rifles, arms trade, Iran equipping Iraq insurgents

The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.

The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.

Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.

Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.





now you see why people come home in body bags?
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More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.

A Steyr HS50 rifle, Austrian supplied rifles, arms trade, Iran equipping Iraq insurgents

The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.

The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.

Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.

Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.





now you see why people come home in body bags?

The lefties think this sort of thing is a joke,.....and why not they and their friends don't join the military and serve their country they just ***** and whine.
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The lefties think this sort of thing is a joke,.....and why not they and their friends don't join the military and serve their country they just ***** and whine.
it's a lot easier to crack a beer and b1tch at a message board.. or try to find a lawyer to sue someone on a board that made you look fooooooooolish... than do anything real. more than half of the problem comes from within; we all know who i mean.
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The arms trade needs to be reigned in. Let's not pretend that the U.S. is not as guilty as anyone in this regard. Objectively speaking, Iran has as much right to be in Iraq as we do, i.e., none. When the American right wing has the guts to admit they were wrong, American troops will stop coming home in body bags. (Some right wingers, like Chuck Hagel, are finally coming around.)
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Remember last year there was a post about how a whole C-130 that belonged to the US filled with AK-47's was missing I believe it was in turkey or somewhere and could not be found, somehow these rifles also flooded the market in this area. We have complicity in arming those who dissent against us in the mideast. It is always easy to blame another country, however the US has tremendous responsibility. I know this is a blog from the left, but cannot find the original article..

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artm...w.cgi/60/19746

Baghdad - Fears have surfaced that as many as 200,000 AK-47s shipped by the U.S. to Iraqi security forces may have ended up in the hands of terrorists.

The Northern Ireland newspaper The Daily Mirror reports the 99-ton cache of AK47s was supposed to have been secretly flown out from a U.S. base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have since vanished.

Orders for the deal originated with the U.S. Department of Defense. But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private arms traders.

And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was criticized by the United Nations in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, a fact uncovered by human rights group Amnesty International.

Amnesty chief spokesman Mike Blakemore said: "It's unbelievable that no one can account for 200,000 assault rifles. If these weapons have gone missing it's a terrifying prospect." American defense chiefs hired an American firm to take the guns from the 90s Bosnian war, to Iraq. However, flights, which supposedly took off between July 2004 and July 2005 were not recorded by air traffic controllers in Baghdad.

A spokesman for the coalition forces confirmed they had not received "any weapons from Bosnia" and added they were "not aware of any purchases for Iraq from Bosnia". NATO and U.S. officials have already voiced fears that Bosnian arms - sold by US, British and Swiss firms - are being passed to insurgents.
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