Via Danger Room: Iran-Iraq Rifle Connection Fizzles

Why am I not surprised?

Remember the flap about Iran supplying sniper rifles to the U.S.? Well, now you can forget it. Not a single one of the guns in question — Steyr-Mannlicher HS50 .50-cals — “has ever been documented as having been captured from Sunni insurgents or Shia militias in Iraq,” Bob Owen writes.

Entire article (with links) at Wired’s Danger Room.