Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.

In a development that should cloud further discussions over what country's government has been supplying weapons to Shiite militias, Italian anti-mafia investigators have busted up an arms deal negotiated through an intermediary for Iraq's interior ministry.

Most intriguing, the US military apparently had no knowledge of the pending $40 million sale that would have supplied 105,000 Russian-made weapons to the ministry.

Here's the rest of the story.

Okay, Pundita, stop mucking around the Iraq Slogger site.