Polish Troops Find New French Missiles in Iraq

[MrMonk]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-poland-missiles.html

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish troops in Iraq have found four French-built advanced anti-aircraft missiles which were built this year, a Polish Defense Ministry spokesman told Reuters Friday.
France strongly denied having sold any such missiles to Iraq for nearly two decades, and said it was impossible that its newest missiles should turn up in Iraq.

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``It is not credible to say that the Roland missiles found a few days ago were produced in 2003 and delivered just before the Anglo-American intervention,'' the spokeswoman said. ``Let's be absolutely clear about this: no military exports to Iraq were licensed after July 1990.''
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The Roland missiles in dispute are in use in 10 countries, according to the article. Were there identifying marks that could be used to trace them? Go fish.

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``The ammunition depot was neutralized,'' said Mleczak. Polish television pictures showed missiles placed in a shallow trench and a huge explosion when the Poles blew up munitions at the site.

[hedda_foil]

1. Nice. The Old "We Found Them and Blew Them Up For You" Game.

[Noordam]

2. On order from Poland...... that marking pointing to Poland

are no longer there. :evilgrin:

[pfitz59]

3. South Park's "Blame Canada" retitled "Blame France"!

Clarence and Phillip do Baghdad! Roland missiles have been around a long time. What about all those Hawk missiles in Iran? Time to revive Iran-Contra! Screw the BFEE!

[bahrbearian]

4. You want evidence it's right there..in that big hole in the ground.

[bahrbearian]

5. Didn't Chimmpy make a speech in Poland

Claiming to have found WMD in the form of the Moible Lab's Do you think they still believe that shit too!!!

[MGKrebs]

6. Just a little dyslexia.

They were actually missiles from Poland, found by a guy named Roland!