Since June at least, the men, said to belong to a Salafist group and who had been fighting alongside rebels in Syria, had slipped in and out of Syria on several occasions, bringing with them to Jordan sufficient arms to build up a weapons cache that would have levelled parts of Amman and potentially claimed hundreds of lives.
Russia's confession in the early 1990s that the Soviet Union had built up a huge biological-weapons programme showed how necessary such a mechanism is.
A former British National party candidate who believed the country was teetering on the brink of civil war built up a stockpile of chemical explosives and weapons and told his wife that he wanted to shoot the prime minister, a court heard yesterday.
A subsequent FBI investigation, however, painted a disturbing portrait of an individual who escalated his radical activity in recent years as he built up a massive gun stash, even hiding weapons and extremist propaganda in a secret compartment behind his refrigerator.
And Macedonia had no answer to an early hail of Lauder high balls, the Glasgow City winger's left foot proving to be Scotland's most potent weapon as they built up a six-goal lead by half-time.
The two NRA enthusiasts "have built up an arsenal of weapons and have also rented many firearms," reports Daily Star, "including an M16 semi-automatic rifle, a.44-calibre Ruger revolver and a.45mm-Glock pistol".
Now I feel the time has come to build up a proper weapons stash, and not just because the squirrel is currently brushing away large brick missiles as though they were snowflakes.
From a remote base in the Highlands it would be possible to build up a store of weapons, possibly smuggled in from mainland Europe or Ireland, and still be within striking distance for attacks on enemy forces.
Campbell stoutly defended the September 2002 Iraqi weapons dossier which stated that Saddam was continuing to build up a nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme – claims that were shown to be without foundation after the invasion.
