Again, US "mainstream" media were noticeably mum on the matter, and again it is under a puppet president, this time - Obama.
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Argentina seizes illicit cargo on US military plane
Fecha: 14/02/2011AFP
Argentina and the United States engaged Monday in a diplomatic spat after Argentine authorities seized what they said were undeclared weapons and drugs on a US military aircraft last week.
Buenos Aires planned to lodge a formal protest with Washington, while the US State Department said it was "puzzled and disturbed" by the seizure of what it said was routine equipment for training the Argentine federal police.
Argentine officials said the US Air Force C-17 transport plane was searched and its cargo seized by customs officials on Thursday at Ezeiza International Airport after arriving with experts and material for a hostage rescue training exercise.
In a statement late Sunday, President Cristina Kirchner's government said it would lodge a protest with Washington and ask it to cooperate in a probe into the air force's attempt "to violate Argentine laws by bringing in hidden material in an official shipment."
Argentina has said it seized "sensitive material" that had not been declared in a manifest submitted by the US embassy.
"Among the material seized, which the State Department makes no reference to, are from weapons to different drugs, including various doses of morphine," the foreign ministry said in Sunday's statement.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said the authorities conducted what he called "an unusual and unannounced search of the aircraft's cargo."
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