Rocket propelled grenade launcher available for $100 in Iraq

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Middle East, Transnational Crime |

Grenades cost an extra $50 each.

Source: Ahmed Rasheed and Ross Colvin, ” Iraqi police selling weapons on black market,” Reuters, February 5, 2007.

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