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US, Israeli men 'guilty' in arms case
An Israeli defense consultant and his American business partner have pled guilty to illegal arms trafficking to war-weary Somalia.
Chanoch Miller, 79, an Israeli defense consultant, contacted Joseph O'Toole, 53, a retired US Air Force colonel and aviation consultant, to help arrange the shipment of 6,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Bosnia to Somalia.
The two used falsified documents that concealed the fact that the arms were destined for Somalia, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.
The plan was exposed when O'Toole contacted a presumed arms dealer, who was in fact working undercover for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, to arrange the export of 700 rifles from the United States through Panama to Somalia.
O'Toole and Miller each face up to five years in prison and possible fines. They will be sentenced in Florida on December 14.
PressTV - US, Israeli men 'guilty' in arms case
everywhere they put their dirty paws there is a war
10 months ago, it was another locust...
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