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Iraqi Officials Implicated In Black-Market Weapons Deal

Associated Press   |  CHARLES J. HANLEY and ARIEL DAVID   |   August 12, 2007 12:56 PM

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In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.

Their discovery led anti-Mafia investigators down a monthslong trail of telephone and e-mail intercepts, into the midst of a huge black-market transaction, as Iraqi and Italian partners haggled over shipping more than 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into the bloodbath of Iraq.

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