Italy foils 'arms for Iraq plot'

Who are these people and why are they trying to make things worse in Iraq?

No names given? Wonder if we would recognize any of them?

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy foils 'arms for Iraq plot':

Italian police say they have broken up a major arms trafficking ring that was planning to supply thousands of weapons to insurgents in Iraq.

They say the group involved had connections in Malta, Russia, Libya and China and some of those arrested were wealthy businessmen working in exports.

This began as a routine drugs investigation.

But soon police in the central Umbria region realised they had stumbled across something far more significant.

So far they have arrested 16 people - 12 on suspicion of drug dealing but four on allegations they were intending to supply arms.