US, Argentina in diplomatic tangle after Argentines seize US military equipment
General Sources Monday 14th February, 2011
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina is accusing the U.S. military of trying to sneak guns and spy equipment into the country under the guise of providing a routine police training course ? a charge disputed Monday by U.S. officials. Argentine authorities say they seized nearly 1,000 cubic feet of undeclared equipment, describing it as machine-guns and ammunition, drugs and spy equipment. It was on a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane that landed Thursday with material for a training course that a U.S. Special Forces team had been invited to provide to Argentina's federal police. "Argentine law must be complied with by all, without exception," Foreign Minister Hector Timerman told Arturo Valenzuela, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, when Valenzuela called ...
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