[mylife]

The story makes no sense.
Why would they send Soviet arms form here to the ME?
You can pick up that stuff anywhere over there.

[Jet Jaguar]

Agreed.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Perhaps the idea was to use them in America?

[gaijin]

It makes sense because the goal of this op was a twofer:

1. Bust an AQ guy

2. Provide fodder for the fiction that the 2nd amendment is a threat to the *non US* world.

That was also the goal of fast and furious.