Iranian Sniper Rifles in Iraq
Charles Johnson
Tue Feb 13, 2007 at 11:31 am PST • Views: 534
The Telegraph reports on recent discoveries in Iraq of Austrian sniper rifles originally sold to Iran: Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from Iran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.
The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year.The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.
Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon.
Is it a casus belli against Iran? I doubt it. The term seems to have lost its meaning.
Frank says: