And they would have got away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling Romanians!
The lead about the arms trafficking scheme came from Romanian customs officials, who were embroiled in a court fight with Bon, the Italian entrepreneur, over a shipment of 200 German sniper scopes. The merchandise had been confiscated in 2008 at the Bucharest airport en route to Iran.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Financial Guard officers are investigating the clues about how sniper scopes ending up in the Taliban’s arsenal. They are also pursuing leads that some of the 1,000 sniper scopes Homayoun bought, paying up to $2,600 each, may have reached insurgents in Iraq. According to the investigative report and Italian officials, British troops discovered the same kind of scopes in Iraqi militant hideouts in Basra in 2006 and 2007.
And we’re worrying about Jesus scopes? Jesus. Scopes. Jesus Scopes monkey. Trial? OK, I’m done.