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  • US seeks to buy ammunition from Taiwan as stocks run low after Iraq: report

    01/06/2005 8:06:04 AM PST · by Happy2BMe · 113 replies · 4,324+ views
    US seeks to buy ammunition from Taiwan as stocks run low after Iraq: report (AFP) 6 January 2005 TAIPEI - The United States is planning to buy hundreds of millions of bullets from Taiwan in the first such deal as its supplies are running low after wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a report said Thursday.Citing Taiwanese military sources, the United Evening News said Washington had made the request to acquire some 300 million 5.56-millimeter bullets for rifles for an estimated two billion Taiwan dollars (62.5 million US).The deal was yet to be finalized pending price negotiations, it said.An unnamed general...