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Metal Gear advisor faces smuggling rap News

PlayStation 3 PlayStation 2 PSOne News by Robert Purchese

21 July, 2008

An army man who worked as a consultant on the Metal Gear Solid series is in trouble for allegedly smuggling night vision scopes out of the US.

Tomoaki Iishiba was sending the scopes to Japan but forgot to get an export licence, according to the Associated Press. Whoops.

He's expected to plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle goods out of the US at his trial later this month.

Iishiba helped make Metal Gear Solid more authentic back in 1998, and has since gone on to endorse a line of knives.

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Rich72
21/07/08 @ 14:01
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forgot his sneaking suit?
iWolf
21/07/08 @ 14:03
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Ouch, looks like earning a few grand on the side from Japan's militaria collectors proved too tempting.
Rich72
21/07/08 @ 14:07
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Did someone shout "Tomoaki, Tomoaki.... Tomoohhhhkiiiiii" when he got caught?
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21/07/08 @ 14:17
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When questioned by customs about the suspicious parcel he was carrying, Mr Iishiba was quoted as saying 'Its just a box.'
andywilkie35
21/07/08 @ 14:25
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hahahaha "its just a box", like it!
neilka
21/07/08 @ 14:26
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I also endorse knives.

All of them.
Vice.Destroyer
21/07/08 @ 14:35
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"Tomo, Tomoaki,
is the crappest spy in His-toe-raaayy
Going to, spend the rest of
his life rotting in Guantanamo Bay"

Sung to the tune of the Flintstones.
TeeHee
21/07/08 @ 14:40
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Fission Mailed!
Dark_Stranger
21/07/08 @ 15:05
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Once his court case is over he will be doing a whistle stop tour of the UK promoting his new urban/burberry knife range.
MattyD
21/07/08 @ 16:14
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The goggles, they do nothing.
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21/07/08 @ 17:23
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"He became a citizen, graduated from Northern Michigan University, and served with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan in 2003. He wrote a book about it titled “A Japanese Lieutenant from the 82nd Airborne.” "

Wow. The man clearly has a gift for words!
First that book title and now "It's just a box".
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21/07/08 @ 19:26
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@Rich 72

u stole my lines haha
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21/07/08 @ 20:41
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21/07/08 @ 22:02
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lol bad luck
JeroenZM
21/07/08 @ 23:42
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Night vision scopes?! Colonel...
Gradius
22/07/08 @ 06:52
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Should've used a cardboard box

Nah, he should've rolled through customs in an old oil drum, that would've worked for sure.
Knot
22/07/08 @ 07:29
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You know that Adidas made boots for the Nazi army !?



.... EG @ tabloid levels... ugh...
dahsif
22/07/08 @ 11:25
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Tomoaki: "The nanomachines made me do it"
RandomTerrain
22/07/08 @ 17:28
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Night vision goggles have changed...
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23/07/08 @ 00:39
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Hilarious comments.

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