Maltese company implicated in arms trafficking to Iraqi insurgents

I've posted a couple times about the fact that finding explosives or other munitions in Iraq which have Iranian markings doesn't necessarily mean the Iranian government is supplying the insurgents. And this is exactly why.

Italian authorities yesterday announced they had interrupted an international arms trafficking deal that was to have operated between China, Malta, Italy and Libya, and which planned to supply hundreds of thousands of weapons to Iraqi insurgents, international media reported yesterday. The operation was to have seen an unnamed Maltese company acting as a middleman between Chinese weapons producers and Libyan buyers, who would, in turn, move the weapons on to Iraqi insurgents, according to coded emails recovered by Italian agents.

Now for a question. Had this transaction been successful, would Bush feel compelled to accuse the Chinese government of supplying weapons to the insurgents? Just asking.

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