Pentagon's Afghan arms dealer = some 22-year-old guy from Miami Beach

itd be better to get someone funny to play the lead

Let me remind you all again: Florida is a GREAT place to live. No suntan oil required – you rub the toxic air on your nipples.

i didn't read the whole thing - did it touch on who the new #1 arms supplier might be?

This whole thing sounds like a Gary Shteyngart novel.

^^ this is the truest thing I've read on ILX in forever and ever

xpost - no they only cut this guy off as of ... today

and they say they're going to accept shipment of all the arms they've already paid for from him which is like $155 million more worth of shit

yay!

xpost

fuck a movie this needs to become the inspiration for a CSI Miami season finale

this thread already has half of caruso's lines in it! THE DIALOGUE IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE DIALOGUE

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

this is all hilarious until you realize it's...

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...not

YAAAAAOOOOOWWWWW!!!

comments thread on TPM raises an interesting idea: two 20-something dipshits probably don't have the wherewithal for this kind of thing, even if it was corrupt. procuring the right contracts, setting up shit between with shady swiss dealers, knowing enough to swap out the chinese packaging, etc. there have to be some real adults involved somewhere, on the US side.

xp rofl

by dealing chinese munitions he may have violated the federal law against...

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...dealing in chinese munitions.

YAAAAAOOOOOWWWWW!!!

Umm, gff, these are kinda just mob kids, no? That's the beauty of the "this is a Gary Shteyngart novel" comment (because that is kinda in fact the plot of both of his novels, in different ways)

yeah i hate to say it but it doesn't take too much smarts to sell surplus ammo

omg carso sunglass dawning emoticons!

efraim has 1 friends. Tom

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...awwwww

YAAAAAOOOOOWWWWW!!!

Not smarts, but international connections of the "family business" type

omg caruso would totally say that in the meanest most sarcastic way possible xp

connections and sunglasses, that's all you need

god bless the free market

Have any of the political blogs run his daddy's name against donor lists?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/asia/28ammo.html?sq=arms%20dealers%20afghanistan&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=print

follow up article

in jail mufukka: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/577409.html

word on the street = m4fi4

oh i see that that's already been posited here.

The government contracts to buy Chinese bullets from this schmuck and then busts him for selling them Chinese bullets. Well done everyone.

actually they contracted for hungarian bullets.

but there is plenty of blame for everyone