Armed American Civilians on Private Plane to Afghanistan Arrested in Dubai

This story has a hint of the recent Venezuelan coup, but the details are still skimpy.

The amount of permits, fees, plans and various payoffs that need to be made for a flight to even cross through middle eastern borders is daunting. This doesn't seem like an imaginary rambo mission for that reason.

There are a lot of questions, but I wonder why they thought it necessary to drag weapons along. Anyone who has ever been involved in a civilian flight over there would have told you how dumb that is.

Couldn't they have just bought a few RPGs and AKs down at the local bazaar like everyone else? They probably could have picked up a few ARs too, right?

Armed American Civilians? Really? Had they been from some other country they would be instantly called terorrists.