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ADDING to post no. 39 — OFF (Thread) TOPIC:
“US investigator exposes Iran’s nuclear weapons ‘shopping list’”
SNIPPET: “A senior US financial investigator has revealed Iran’s detailed ‘shopping list’ for nuclear and missile parts after uncovering a vast procurement network for materials related to weapons of mass destruction.”
By Philip Sherwell in New York
Last Updated: 5:04PM BST 24 May 2009
SNIPPET: “The investigation has revealed that the Iranians were negotiating to buy 400 gyrometers, 600 accelerometers and 100 pieces of the metal tantalum - crucial technology for building accurate long-range missiles that could deliver nuclear payloads.
Mr Morgenthau’s unit, which has prosecuted several major US white-collar criminal cases, also established that LIMMT, a Chinese company that has long been a major supplier of banned weapons material to Iran, had shipped a long list of weapons-related materials to Iran after skirting international financial sanctions.
The items included 15,000 kgs of specialised aluminium alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production; 1,700 kgs of graphite cylinders used for banned electrical discharge machines; more than 30,000 kgs of tungsten-copper plates; 200 tungsten-copper alloy hollow cylinders; 19,000 kgs of tungsten metal powder and 24,500 kgs of maraging steel rods, which are favoured for their superior strength.”
SNIPPET: “The successful launch of the Sejil-2 rocket, which has an estimated 1,200 mile range and a new navigation system and sophisticated sensors, was further sign of its growing missile capacity, weapons experts said.
Iran is moving away from the liquid-fuelled Shahab-3 obtained from North Korea using Pakistani technology, to solid fuel rockets as they are easier to store, move, hide and assemble - and thus harder for Israel or others to target if they launched air strikes.”
It makes one wonder what North Korea’s shopping list is and where does it shop at.