The Command Post - Iraq - Another Golden Gun?

April 17, 2003

Another Golden Gun?

A gold-plated gun given to one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen has been seized at Heathrow Airport.

The Kalashnikov AK47 is similar to the one uncovered at Uday Hussein's palace in Baghdad last week.

The loaded machine gun was discovered along with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, six bayonets and a sniper rifle in packages marked as computer equipment, The Daily Mirror said.[...]

An unnamed source told the paper that the gun was loaded, bubble wrapped along with a spare magazine and was bound for an address in the US but was picked up by an X-ray machine.

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Posted By Wind Rider at April 17, 2003 11:42 PM | TrackBack

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Three Kings. Just on a very small scale.

Posted by: Bruce H R at April 17, 2003 11:57 PM

I'm thinking that the name on the return address is "Geraldo"

Posted by: Jonathan at April 18, 2003 12:05 AM

Leave it to Uday to bling out an AK-47.

Uday is/was truly the Father of All Players.

Posted by: CINCSF at April 18, 2003 12:13 AM

Some GI is out one souvenir

Posted by: Lou at April 18, 2003 12:33 AM

I rather doubt it's a GI tropy. A) I don't think they have access to mail right now, and B) I rather doubt any soldier would send a loaded gun by air freight.

Posted by: Ray at April 18, 2003 02:23 AM

Ray you are kidding right?
GI's don't have access but thousands of officers can pull this off. They can easily have a pal in Kuwait or kqutar do it as well. How many generals, colonels, majors etc do you think we have over there? GI's regularly frieghted stuff back from Germany that would make you hair stand up.

Posted by: nelson at April 18, 2003 07:29 AM

Free enterprise. Besides, the former owner doesn't need it anymore.

Posted by: SSRIuser at April 18, 2003 07:58 AM

DOHHHH!!
should have sent it via canada

Posted by: homer at April 18, 2003 12:02 PM

yeah I vote war trophy.

he should have disasembled it first and wrapped lead foil bags for camera film around the parts first.... I mean uhhhh bad, bad, G.I. no no! war trophies are wrong......

Posted by: rumcrook at April 19, 2003 06:10 PM