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Saturday 15 December 2007

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US 1989 Panama Invasion to Be Probed
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Colombia Destroys 18,000 Weapons Handed In By Former Paramilitaries
Ecuadoran Police Find Arsenal, Osama Bin Laden Photos


Ecuadoran Police Find Arsenal, Osama Bin Laden Photos
Ecuadoran police reported Friday they had seized an arsenal and Osama Bin-laden photos in a house in Santa Elena province, some 560 km southwest of Quito, and made one arrest.

The police raided a house in Manabi neighborhood of Anconcito in Salinas.

They found Osama bin Laden Photos, shooting practice targets, 37 high caliber weapons and 2,680 cartridges.

The police did not say when the operation was carried out, although they confirmed the arrest of Ecuadoran citizen Jacinto Rufino Munoz who allegedly said he was a security guard in charge of the confiscated arsenal.

The police seized 2,456 5.56-mm ordinary cartridges and 224 5.56-mm trail cartridges; 19 Uzi machine gun feeders of many sizes, 12 M-16 feeders, two M-16s, an HK sub-machine gun, a Uzi sub-machine gun; a 22-mm rifle and a 38-caliber revolver, among many other military items.

The police reported that the people at the home did not resist arrest at the time of the police operation.
 


 

 

 

 
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