ROME -- Two four-meter medium-range missiles have been found at the southern Italian port of Bari stashed among crates of oranges in a truck bound for Germany, police said Tuesday.
The lorry's two German drivers - as well as contacts at their destination - were being questioned after the U.S.-made AMRAAM air-to-air weapons docked from Greece aboard a German-registered vehicle.
"Two (delivery) documents, instead of one, (going to) two different German towns, were found on the lorry," said local police chief Giuseppe Ialacqua after a customs inspection revealed the unlicensed cargo. The missiles, typically fired as a guided missile from one aircraft with the aim of destroying another aircraft, had been stripped of their explosive charges.
Pakistan: US intelligence agents 'uncover Bin Laden letters'
1/31/08
Islamabad - US secret service agents operating in the remote border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan claim to have found five letters signed by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Saudi daily Al-Watan said on Thursday.
Citing unnamed local security sources, the newspaper said that the letters are allegedly handwritten in Arabic and bear Bin Laden's apparent signature and seal. They appear to have been sent last December to some of Bin Laden's followers in the region. One of the letters is addressed to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Helmand, Mansoor Dadallah.
In the letter, Bin Laden reportedly offers condolences to Dadallah, the brother of Mullah Dadallah, late Taliban leader in Helmand, who was killed last year in a US air strike. After his brother's death, Mansoor Dadullah claimed he had received a letter from Bin Laden in an interview with satellite Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera.
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