WEAPONS IN IRAQ — a smoking gun:

WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish troops in Iraq have found four French-built advanced anti-aircraft missiles which were built this year, a Polish Defense Ministry spokesman told Reuters Friday.

France strongly denied having sold any such missiles to Iraq for nearly two decades, and said it was impossible that its newest missiles should turn up in Iraq.

“Polish troops discovered an ammunition depot on Sept. 29 near the region of Hilla and there were four French-made Roland-type missiles,” Defense Ministry spokesman Eugeniusz Mleczak said.

“It is not the first time Polish troops found ammunition in Iraq but to our surprise these missiles were produced in 2003.” . . .

Under a strict trade embargo imposed by the United Nations, Iraq was barred from importing arms after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

It’s as if the French don’t care about international law.

UPDATE: Here’s a story saying that the Poles are wrong.

ANOTHER UPDATE: James Rummel smells a coverup: “The Poles were willing to stick to their guns until Chirac yelled at them. Then, all of a sudden, they say that they’re wrong. So why doesn’t one of our guys just drive on over to where the Poles have set up shop and take a look? Because the missiles were destroyed on Wednesday.”

It did sound a bit suspicous to me, but who knows?