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Bosnian pyramid claim backed by Egyptian

General NewsOn Wednesday, Aly Abd Barakat, an Egyptian geologist, said that the hill located in central Bosnia that looked primitive and a human-made pyramid from ages.

Bakarat was sent by the Egypt's government to participate in the local team researching what Bosnian-born amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic says are three 12,000-year-old pyramids - the Bosnian Pyramids of Sun, Moon and Dragon.

He said that it would be difficult for nature to build something like the hill that was studied. Local and European archaeologists have denounced Osmanagic’s theory about pyramids in Bosnia. They said that ancient civilizations in Europe lived in caves and could not build such structures.

I see a future National Gepgraphic special in the works. In the mean time it would be nice to see some good quality pictures and video.

US government is paying contractors to move arms from Bosnia to Iraq

The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN.

According to a report by Amnesty International, which investigated the sales, the US government arranged for the delivery of at least 200,000 Kalashnikov machine guns from Bosnia to Iraq in 2004-05. But though the weaponry was said to be for arming the fledgling Iraqi military, there is no evidence of the guns reaching their recipient.

Senior western officials in the Balkans fear that some of the guns may have fallen into the wrong hands.

A Nato official described the trade as the largest arms shipments from Bosnia since the second world war. [...]

A complex web of private firms, arms brokers and freight firms, was behind the transfer of the guns, as well as millions of rounds of ammunition, to Iraq at "bargain basement prices", according to Hugh Griffiths, Amnesty's investigator.

The Moldovan air firm which flew the cargo out of a US air base at Tuzla, north-east Bosnia, was flying without a licence. The firm, Aerocom, named in a 2003 UN investigation of the diamonds-for-guns trade in Liberia and Sierra Leone, is now defunct, but its assets and aircraft are registered with another Moldovan firm, Jet Line International.

This is so absurd and indicative of the ineptitude of the powers that be the last 6 years that my reaction was to almost laugh rather then be shocked. Reality imitates the movies, Nick Cage's recent Lord of War, mix in a little Syriana, and maybe a dash of Wag the Dog.