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April 22, 2008 by Ty Tribble | 0 Comments

High Bidders Get F-14 Parts on the Web

GAO study finds sensitive military items for sale on eBay and Craigslist.On any random day, more than 114 million items are listed for sale on eBay.

More than 6 million new items are listed every day through 39 trading platforms worldwide. Craigslist, while smaller in scope and localized to individual markets, is another site of brisk sales of almost any imaginable item.

Unfortunately, the two sites are also popular destinations for the sale of sensitive and stolen defense-related items never intended for resale, including F-14 airplane parts, nuclear-biological-chemical gear and body armor plates.

“It doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to understand the troubling nature of some of these items being sold online,” Rep. John Tierney, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, said at a hearing earlier this month. “For instance, Iran is the only country currently operating F-14s.”

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