Posted on 11/05/2005 11:13:26 PM PST by F14 Pilot
Munich - Berlin has warned German industry that missile- builders in Iran and Syria are obtaining sophisticated German equipment via criminal, Moscow-based companies, the news magazine Focus reported Saturday.
The equipment was initially being legally exported to Moscow, where the middlemen, posing as legitimate Russian industrial companies and research institutions, were sending it straight to Iran and Syria.
In the report, to hit the streets Monday and released in advance to the news media, Focus said the method was explained in a confidential warning to many German companies to be on the lookout for the ruse.
It said Iran was obtaining measuring devices, propulsion systems and guidance systems to enhance its Shahab 3 medium-range missile. The Shahab 3 is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and could hit targets in Europe since it has a 3,500-kilometre range.
Syria was obtaining such systems to modernize its outdated Russian-built Scud missiles, the magazine said. The Scuds are mainly seen as a threat to Israel.
The Berlin warning named 15 firms with addresses in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Samara which had been involved in such illegal deals in the past. Among them was an institute attached to the State Technical University of Moscow.
It was not clear from the Focus report whether militarily useful equipment had already reached Iran and Syria using the ruse.
Dear Germany,
I have been assured by my Left wing friends that there are NO WMDs in Syria or Iran. Please stop worrying.
Iran got their tech from China. I'm betting Syria did too.
BTTT!
China, N.Korea, Russia, Libya....
While you're at it, add "U.S." to that list. Let's not forget the actions of the Dixie Mafia's favorite son and his pals.
Russia, N.Korea, China give Iran missile aid -CIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/519198/posts
Russia defends arms sales to Iran
http://www.freedomdomain.com/Templemount/5_30a.html
Russia says new Topol RS-12 mobile ICBM can evade U.S. missile defense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513904/posts
oh thats nice. Lots of freinds in that group of nations. /sarcasm
First liar don't stand a chance.
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I'm sure France will take notice of this. By the time these swine get to the place that they can launch this hardware the purveyors of the religion on peace will have burned France to the ground. So much for cultural diversity.
Guess who taught the Iranians how to build sophisticated roadside armour piercing shaped charges that can tear a APC vehicle to shreads.
The same type of explosive devices that have shown up in Iraq recently having caused deaths of British and US forces.
Russia or China, take your pick. Judging on the science involved, my bet is on the Russians passing this information off to the Iranians and Syrians.
I thought Iran got at least some of their info from that idiot Pakistani physicist?
Well that could be true. I'd hate to see that.
That may be true too. Of course Pakistan got it's knowledge from China.
You are right, Pakistan was only a step in the process.
SSDD - the exact same ruses were used to sell equipment to Iraq in the 90's early 00's - of course with the additional help of the UN's Oil for Food Program . . .
Russkies or Ukrainians on that one. Gotta move those weapons systems and technology to keep the vodka flowing!
bttt
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