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Until a few months ago Saddam Hussein was sending his Mig-21 jet engines abroad for refits and upgrades. That wasn't all. The sanctions-busting company doing the refits was also apparently working with the Iraqis on converting some of their jet trainer aircraft for remote piloting. This would have made them into so-called 'poor man's cruise missiles,' capable of delivering thousand pound munitions up to 900 miles.


Where was this factory?


Germany?


Pakistan?


North Korea?


The island in the South Pacific Osama bin Laden is setting up as a new Shariah-based version of Fantasy Island?


Nope


Try a section of Bosnia (Republika Srpska) under the jurisdiction of the United States military.


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Check out this new article in The Washington Monthly for all the ugly details.

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