Italian authorities seized a container of weapons and explosives going from Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
Gee. I wonder what they were going to use them for.
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.
I get so sick of all this xenophobic suspicion. I see nothing unusual about Arabs smuggling high explosives and assault weapons into the US. What could possibly be suspicious about that?
I’m getting fed up and fatalistic. For once I agree with Jacques Chirac on something. The next time there is a terrorist attack on the USA we should nuke the most likely suspect supporting state, as M. Weasel proposed to do in case of an attack on La Belle Nation.
“Listen up Muslims, this terrorism isn’t our problem, we’re making it your problem. Every time an American is killed or injured by an Islamist terrorist attack we’re going to nuke one of your cities. If there is a terrorist nuke attack you can kiss Mecca goodbye. You know who these scum are, you know where they live, you are the ones who have been supporting them, now you go out and kill every one of them and send us their heads, or be on the receiving end of nuclear fire. We want their heads for the 9/11 Memorial, since we think a pyramid of skulls will give a nice effect. I understand there is historical precedent for such things. And if Iran or North Korea uses their new nuke toys on anybody, I said anybody, we will destroy the entire country with nuclear retaliation. Get busy.”
After all, it’s not like any Saudi nationals have ever committed any terrorist acts. Even if they did, I’m certain they would only attack those nasty conservatives that keep stirring them up, which means that NYC, with its overwhelmingly liberal population, can’t possibly be a target.
But Tatter, you are forgetting that NYC has the largest population of Jews of any city in the country, maybe the world, making it the primary target for the jihadis. If there ever is a nuke terrorist strike in the USA I expect them to hit Gotham, since that way they can kill the most Jews.
Yes, I know you were being sarcastic.
Now, what the hell has gotten through, since this cannot be the only shipment the scum have sent to the US. Oh, and Meryl, shouldn’t the title be “Our Fiends, the Saudis”?
I went to the website for Il Mattino (Naples)and looked at the August 20, 2006,issue. The story there appears to say that the authorities believe the weapons were to be transshipped and were actually headed for the Persian Gulf, i.e., Iraq or Iran. My Italian is somewhere below rudimentary and the Babelfish translation is comical (“carico di morte,” “cargo of death,” becomes “cargo of dead women”) so maybe someone who really knows Italian can translate it. But at least it doesn’t look like what that clip suggested, that Saudis are arming terrorists in the U.S. The story is at http://ilmattino.caltanet.it/mattino/view.php?data=20060820&ediz=NAZIONALE&npag=8&file=APRE.xml&type=STANDARD
Seems a rather roundabout way to get cargos to the Gulf, considering they could just stick it on a dhow at a Saudi port on the gulf. Of course it might get intercepted by a USN or USCG boat patrolling the Gulf but they could transship through one of the emirates pretty safely, I suspect. That’s not to mention shipping it across the border via truck or camel.
And the title still shold be “Our Fiends the Saudis”.