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| Iraq | |
| Weapons Cache for Saddam’s Son Odai Found | |
| 2003-04-11 | |
| U.S. soldiers stumbled Friday upon the personal weapons cache of President Saddam Hussein's son Odai, finding boxes of assault rifles and dozens of ceremonial firearms in an abandoned house. The infantry company was searching through a Baath Party enclave when they made the discovery of Odai Hussein's collection inside the home. Many of the weapons were apparently already looted; there were hundreds of Beretta 9mm pistol boxes, but no pistols. But not everything was gone. There were dozens of gold- and silver-plated military weapons, apparently presented as gifts to Odai. None of those were taken by looters. Yet And there were boxes of Austrian-made Steyr assault rifles, including a dozen still in their packing crate. The boxes bore the address of a Jordanian military official. In Jordan, government officials scoffed at the idea that the discovered Steyr boxes could have been a supply of arms to Iraq after the imposition of U.N. sanctions in 1990. "Lies (scoff) All Lies!"
The serial numbers will tell when they were made, Steyer will have those if we already don't. Bet we do. "In the Arab world, it's common to exchange gifts, and the boxes said to be found — which are apparently of a trivial quantity — are very much in line with that custom," the official told The Associated Press. One is a gift, dozens are a shipment. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 "You say Uday,and I say Odai" "Uday, Odai" "Odai, Uday" "Let's knock the whole family off!" |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-04-11 12:52:14 |
| #1 Odai (Uday) is the dumb one... |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-04-11 11:25:20 |