Drizzt
April 13, 2003, 10:07 PM
Cyanide-Shooting Guns Found in Baghdad
.c The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Soldiers searching homes in a Baath Party enclave on Sunday turned up weapons straight out of James Bond movies - among them suitcases that concealed submachine guns and air pistols that fired cyanide pellets.
The men of A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, found 21 briefcases specially designed to hold Heckler and Koch MP-5K 9 mm submachine guns. The guns could be fired by pulling a trigger on the handle of the case. There were also several silencers for 9 mm pistols and a gold-plated MP-5 fitted with a silencer in a presentation case.
Next to the brief cases were two smaller cases holding air pistols. There were four magazines holding pellets for the pistols; they were labeled stinger, noise, tear gas and cyanide.
Outside the house in central Baghdad was a Soviet-era Volga sedan in which the troops found two 4,400-pound safes - empty.
04/13/03 17:36 EDT
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.c The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Soldiers searching homes in a Baath Party enclave on Sunday turned up weapons straight out of James Bond movies - among them suitcases that concealed submachine guns and air pistols that fired cyanide pellets.
The men of A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, found 21 briefcases specially designed to hold Heckler and Koch MP-5K 9 mm submachine guns. The guns could be fired by pulling a trigger on the handle of the case. There were also several silencers for 9 mm pistols and a gold-plated MP-5 fitted with a silencer in a presentation case.
Next to the brief cases were two smaller cases holding air pistols. There were four magazines holding pellets for the pistols; they were labeled stinger, noise, tear gas and cyanide.
Outside the house in central Baghdad was a Soviet-era Volga sedan in which the troops found two 4,400-pound safes - empty.
04/13/03 17:36 EDT
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