Hello, Scott Carney, here. I was investigating whether or not the lost Iraq weapons made their way into the hands of the Naxals and wasn't able to verify anything of interest (or rule it out, incidentally). When the US lost its enormous cache of weapons it included about 150,000 AK-47s. But you are right to point out that it didn't say what country the AK's were made in. It could be that the US military buys AKs from China or Russia and gives them to Iraq's security forces and then loses them.

At the moment I'm looking into other arms connections, possible with the LTTE in Sri Lanka and an arms dealer who was recently arrested in Kuala Lampur.

scott