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The Rise and Fall of Two Florida Stoners Who Made It Big as Gunrunners
In the summer of 2006, the war in Afghanistan was going badly. The Bush Administration's surge of troops to Iraq had left few resources to deploy to Kabul, as a long shot Presidential candidate named Barack Obama said on the campaign trail. Desperate to turn the tide, the Pentagon decided to try to "stand up" Afghan security forces. Hundreds of millions rounds of various Soviet Bloc ammunition were required, rounds that could only be obtained by doing business with Eastern European arms dealers.
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