Friday, February 01, 2008

Orange missiles

I was checking the agriculture news (China's snowstorm is messing up their winter crops, and the Philippines imports cheap veggies from China that underprice our local farmers).

And ran across this:
Missiles hidden among oranges

Two four-metre medium-range missiles have been found at the southern Italian port of Bari stashed among crates of oranges in a truck bound for Germany, police said Tuesday. The lorry's two German drivers - as well as contacts at their destination - were being questioned after the American-made AMRAAM air-to-air weapons docked from Greece aboard a German-registered vehicle.

"Two (delivery) documents, instead of one, (going to) two different German towns, were found on the lorry," said local police chief Giuseppe Ialacqua after a customs inspection revealed the unlicensed cargo. The missiles, typically fired as a guided missile from one aircraft with the aim of destroying another aircraft, had been stripped of their explosive charges.

Hmmm....wonder if they'll put up an air advisary about flying out of Frankfort...

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