[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thank you for pointing that out and providing that link, Imperialist. Interesting. From your link:

"On the same day, the Times of London reported: "U.S. officials are investigating reports that Islamic terrorists have smuggled Stinger ground-to-air missiles into the United States from Pakistan."

"Senior Iranian sources close to the fundamentalist regime in Teheran claimed this weekend that the TWA flight 800 was shot down last month by one of these shoulder-fired Stingers of the type used by Islamic guerrillas during the Afghanistan war."

"The sources said the missiles arrived in America seven months ago after being shipped from Karachi via Rotterdam and on to the Canadian port of Halifax. They claimed an Egyptian fundamentalist group backed by Iran was responsible for smuggling the weapons across the Canadian border into the United States."

"The article went on to identify the group: the Gama'a al-Islamiya—the same group that attempted to blow up the New York Trade Center under the leadership of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. This same group allegedly notified the White House that they had shot down the plane, and even provided a serial number of the missile used. This last information has not been confirmed as of this writing."

[liberallyconservative]

Thanks for the ping. Looks like I've got another book to add to my voluminous reading list :)

[jerseygirl]

Re your post:

"Islamic terrorists have smuggled Stinger ground-to-air missiles into the United States from Pakistan."

Pakistan, once again.