yota691 Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 US magazine: Aborted smuggling of a shipment of guns to Iraq © Sputnik. Hikmet Durgun 20:11 03.02.2018 Newsweek reported that a shipment of weapons smuggled from the United States inside the Mustang and Chrysler vehicles has been seized in Iraq. "Forty-seven rifles were hidden in a black bar and placed in the tailgate of the Ford Mustang and Chrysler 200 before the vehicles were loaded into a shipping container and sent to Turkey in September," the magazine said in its report . "It was aimed at smuggling weapons into Iraq to help the Peshmerga fighters , but Turkish officials discovered the illegal shipment before it reached much," he said. According to the website, Paul Stuart Bront, 51, from Bellevue, Washington, claimed to investigators that "he got $ 15,000 by an Iraqi citizen to smuggle weapons to Iraq for Peshmerga fighters." Iraqi citizen Rond Khalil al-Dalawi, 29, traveled to the United States on a tourist visa that expired in June. Barronet and Dalawi are charged with breaching federal arms export laws and may face five years in prison and $ 250,000 in fines. After the shipment was discovered, the Turkish Government informed the United States law enforcement agencies, which had found records of another shipment of three cars sent to the same address in Erbil, Iraq in February 2017, according to court documents. It is alleged that the name of Brent was included in the documents of the two shipments, and Dalawi was on one of the documents. "The first shipment included 30 rifles, according to court documents," Brent told investigators, adding that he "did not put the guns in the cars." "Dalawi worked with a third person who was not identified to load the cargo," he said. For his part, Dalawi told the investigators that "he has relatives in the Peshmerga forces, which were crucial to the American efforts to defeat the Dahesh," explaining that "he does not know that the shipment of guns violates US law," following that he "got permission from the Kurdish authorities." The magazine said that Turkey was concerned that the guns given to Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria could reach the hands of Kurdish separatists in Turkey. This is the first time that weapons have been disarmed in Iraq and Syria: a man in California was accused last August of attempting to ship guns through Turkey to Syria. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouter73 Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 Great idea. But maybe the news writer should know his automotive terminology. Tailgates are on pickups. Deck lids are on cars. But go RV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officiallytook Posted February 4, 2018 Report Share Posted February 4, 2018 Fords in the news again in Iraq... no one sees a trend here lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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