Their discovery led anti-Mafia investigators down a monthslong trail of telephone and e-mail intercepts, into the midst of a huge black-market transaction, as Iraqi and Italian partners haggled over shipping more than 100,000 Russian-made automatic weapons into the bloodbath of Iraq.

Great. With friends like the Russians, who needs enemies?

And this is only the ones they have caught. Imagine how much comes from China, Iran, Syria and a host of others.