Many soldiers in the main force of Haitian rebels seeking to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are armed with American M-1 and M-14 rifles given to Haiti in the 1980s. The turncoat militia the Artibonite Resistance Front, formerly known as Aristide's loyal Cannibal Army is hardly the first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons.
Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed.
Afghanistan
In the 1980s anti-Soviet
mujahedin
got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used...
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