Italy seizes 8000 Kalashnikovs headed for US.

[Midnight Son]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040420_153.html

ROME (Reuters) - Italian customs officers seized more than 8,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons on a ship headed to the United States, officials said Tuesday. The arms, worth about $7.15 million, were discovered aboard a ship arriving from Romania that pulled into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro on its way to the United States, Italy's customs said in a statement.

According to the travel documents, the arms belong to a large U.S. company with headquarters in the state of Georgia.

And could we please have the name of the large US company with headquarters in Georgia that needs 8000 assault rifles? Just curious.

[Lunch of Kong]

Coca-cola.

[Bullhajj]

Coca-cola.

The Cola wars are heating up.

[Matthew Gallant]

My guess is Turner Broadcasting.

[Jason McCullough]

You think you're kidding about coke, but they have a history of paramilitary involvement in South America:

http://www.google.com/search?q=coca+cola+south+america

[Anders Hallin]

You think you're kidding about coke, but they have a history of paramilitary involvement in South America:

http://www.google.com/search?q=coca+cola+south+america
Unlike which American company?

[MikeJ]

Unlike which American company?

All American companies have a history of paramilitary involvement in South America? Wow.

[Anders Hallin]

Alright, one or two might have been created too late for that.

[Chris Nahr]

That reminds me of a recent news story that a whopping 20,000 private contractors are currently employed by the occupation army in Iraq, second in size only to the US Army forces. Many of them are civilians rather than armed mercenaries, but still... gotta have rifles to protect these guys!