On the Jordanian weapons to Peru

The US has asked Peru for information about weapons going back to the Soviet era, Jordan had sold and it fell in the hands of the gunmen in Colombia The spokesman for the US state department Philip Recker said that the government of Peru was asked to provide the US with more information and they are still investigating in this issue.

Recker added that the US administration has confidence that the Jordanians had a legal deal.

Last week Peru announced it arrested a network for smuggling weapons that smuggled 10,000 automatic machine gun of Klashinkov type from Jordan to the revolutionary armed forces for Colombia through the woods of Peru.

Peru's President Fujimori said the intelligence arrested 6 persons including three former party officers in Peru army and one Russian.

But the Jordanian government stressed the machine- guns were sold legally in 1998, SANA reported.