Two men guilty of attempting to export illegal arms

Published January 31, 2007 5:00am ET



Two Indonesian citizens pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to attempting to illegally export arms for the Indonesian military.

Last year, Reinhard Rusli, 34, and Helmi Soedirdja, 33, contacted undercover agents to acquire monocular night vision and holographic weapons sight devices which they said the Indonesian military would use, according to the men?s plea agreements.

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