1.   An agency spokeswoman, Franceska Perot, said the weapon had been shipped to a laboratory in Maryland for further inspection.

2.   Atay said promises of military support from the United States and Russia never materialized, although Moscow has been shipping weapons to the Northern Alliance via Tajikistan.

3.   But on Tuesday, the head of the Russian arms sales company Rosvooruzheniye, Yevgeny Ananyev, said Russia was determined to ship the weapons.

4.   But there is no hard evidence that Iran has ever shipped weapons either to the Palestinian Authority or to either of the anti-Israeli Palestinian groups.

5.   For years, Iran shipped weapons to Hezbollah by air to Damascus, and Syrian operatives moved the weapons into Lebanon.

6.   In addition, federal laws govern many aspects of firearms purchases, including how certain weapons can be shipped and who may purchase them.

7.   In contrast, the construction of an expensive incinerator requires shipping weapons to a central site.

8.   No weapons were ever shipped to the United States.

9.   The days when superpower patrons shipped weapons to client states in exchange for political loyalty waned.

10.   The United States agreed last year to look away while Iran shipped weapons through Croatia to the Bosnian Muslims.