Muhammad al-Corleone: New Trouble in Iraq

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Yet another problem for General Petraeus and the American military to worry about: the Italian mafia is selling weapons to insurgent factions in Iraq. It just got caught trafficking “100,000 sophisticated machine guns.” Wonder if that’s in the vaunted counterinsurgency manual

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