
...d.v.s. Saddams livvakts guldpläterade AK-47-kopia. Varför har diktatorer så taskig smak? http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=148&a=662620

Utan att försvara Saddam's smaksinne så förekommer det väl guldpläterade vapen som gåvomaterial m.m. bland höga officerare inom det militära världen över, fast han hörde väl till extremfallen.On April 18, 2003 Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise Service (UK) notified the U.S. Embassy (Attaché Office) in London that it had intercepted a shipment of smuggled, ornamental weapons at Heathrow Airport that were sent from the Middle East and bound for a U.S. military base. ICE agents launched an investigation with the Army Criminal Investigations Division (Army CID) and determined that the goods had been looted from an Iraqi government facility by a member of the U.S. military. The package contained a gold-plated AK-47, a gold-plated pistol, a gold-plated rifle, and several ornamental swords, knives, and other pistols. On April 21, ICE and Army CID agents seized the material upon arrival in the United States and conducted a controlled delivery of the items to a U.S. military base. The investigation continues.