The SA-7 missiles recently used by Iraqi insurgents to hijack some US helicopters may have come from a lot bought by Romanian dealers from Cairo and presently fetched to Iraq via Syria. According to the Associated Press, two officials working for the intelligence services of an Arab government said a Sunni insurgent group had recently bought a lot of SA-7 missiles from the black market through Romanian dealers in Cairo, paid with money coming from private donations in Saudi Arabia. The two officials mentioned that by the same transaction the insurgents had also bought SA-16 and SA-18 missiles. While ex Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was reigning, the Iraqi military had some major reserve of SA-7 missiles available and many of the latter got to the insurgents after the regime collapsed. (...) (D.S.S.)