Iranian nuke plot vaporized in the city: NY banks unwittingly aided in material transfers, says DA

NYDaily ^ | 04.07.09 | Melissa Grace

[Dr. Marten]

The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.

Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.

[Dr. Marten]

Ping.

[penelopesire]

“Authorities first stumbled over the scheme seven months ago in an unrelated probe into Iranian money-laundering through Lloyd’s, a British bank.”

Bush’s Fault (it was discovered at all). Now Obama will try to take credit for it all....(eye roll)

[Dr. Marten]

What? A Chinese national involved in a plot to provide nuclear weapons to the Iranians? I’m shocked!

Naturally the Chinese will deny any knowledge or connection and dismiss the allegations as an attempt to discredit their peaceful government.

barf.

[rjp2005]

Actually it’s the other way around.

Iran’s long term goal has always been to smuggle nuke material INTO New York!

[skimask]

I think its about time the chosen one send a sternly worded letter to the UN then apologize to Iran for snooping into their finances.

[Dr. Marten]

Oh, give him time. I’m sure he will be bowing to the Ayatollah’s before you know it.

[Calpernia]

I wonder if this would be an example of China keeping America off balance? Nah, probably just an unknown rogue act. /sarc

[SC DOC]

What's in Your Wallet?

[Calpernia]

Bain Capital, Iran and China

In September 2007, 3Com was acquired by Bain Capital Partners for about $2.2 billion in cash. As part of the deal,  Chinese networking giant Huawei Technologies wants to take a minority stake of 10% in 3Com. This business relationship has caused a security review by CFIUS.

I'm disturbed to see that Huawei Technologies has signed business agreements with Irancell, in Iran.  Wouldn't this violate the Defense Authorization Bill for Bain Capital?

China seems to have quite a history with keeping American Off Balance.


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[chuck_the_tv_out]

There have been so many incidents like this, we must presume that ethnic Chinese are spies until proved otherwise.

[ETL]

Naturally the Chinese will deny any knowledge or connection and dismiss the allegations as an attempt to discredit their peaceful government.

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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[2009] Russia, China plan new joint military exercises

By MARTIN SIEFF, UPI Senior News Analyst
Published: March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- The continuing tensions over Russia's refusal to sell its state-of-the-art land warfare advanced weapons systems to China hasn't interrupted the rhythm of major joint military exercises between the two major land powers on the Eurasian landmass. The latest in the regular, biennial series of exercises between the two nations has been confirmed for this summer.

The next in the now well-established series of exercises called Peace Mission 2009 will be carried out in northeastern China, the Russian Defense Ministry announced March 18, according to a report carried by the RIA Novosti news agency.

The first bilateral Peace Mission maneuvers -- described at the time as counter-terrorism exercises -- were held in Russia and the eastern Chinese province of Shandong in August 2005. As we reported at that time, they were a lot bigger than mere counter-terrorism exercises. Warships, squadrons of combat aircraft and more than 10,000 troops were involved carrying out landings against hypothetically hostile shores. The maneuvers also involved large-scale paratroops drops. The scale and nature of those exercises suggested a trial run for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan with Russian support. ..."

http://www.upi.com/Security_Industry/2009/03/26/Russia_China_plan_new_joint_military_exercises/UPI-25021238094858/
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Russia, China flex muscles in joint war games
August 17, 2007

CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and China staged their biggest joint exercises on Friday but denied this show of military prowess could lead to the formation of a counterweight to NATO.

"Today's exercises are another step towards strengthening the relations between our countries, a step towards strengthening international peace and security, and first and foremost, the security of our peoples," Putin said.

Fighter jets swooped overhead, commandos jumped from helicopters on to rooftops and the boom of artillery shells shook the firing range in Russia's Ural mountains as two of the largest armies in the world were put through their paces.

The exercises take place against a backdrop of mounting rivalry between the West, and Russia and China for influence over Central Asia, a strategic region that has huge oil, gas and mineral resources.

Russia's growing assertiveness is also causing jitters in the West. Putin announced at the firing range that Russia was resuming Soviet-era sorties by its strategic bomber aircraft near NATO airspace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29030120070817?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
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War Games: Russia, China Grow Alliance
September 23, 2005

In foreign policy it’s critical to “know thine enemy.” So American policymakers should be aware that Russia and China are inching closer to identifying a common enemy — the United States.

The two would-be superpowers held unprecedented joint military exercises Aug. 18-25. Soothingly named “Peace Mission 2005,” the drills took place on the Shandong peninsula on the Yellow Sea, and included nearly 10,000 troops. Russian long-range bombers, the army, navy, air force, marine, airborne and logistics units from both countries were also involved.

Moscow and Beijing claim the maneuvers were aimed at combating terrorism, extremism and separatism (the last a veiled reference to Taiwan), but it’s clear they were an attempt to counter-balance American military might.

Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants. As the Pravda.ru Web site announced, “the reconciliation between China and Russia has been driven in part by mutual unease at U.S. power and a fear of Islamic extremism in Central Asia.”
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed092605a.cfm

[Calpernia]

Unfortunately most of our spies are politicians or carry heavy political influence. We are past ethnic IDing.

Chinese Spy:

Obama's half brother, Mark Ndesandjo

Stonebridge International listed here (Kissinger Assoc. too...see post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1639090/posts?page=65#65 for Kissinger ref)

http://www.uschina.org/member_companies.html

USCBC Member Companies

(As of 04/01/2006)

ABB Inc. ACE INA APCO Worldwide APL Limited Abbott Laboratories Aearo Company Agilent Technologies, Inc. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Albany International Corp. The Albright Group LLC Allen & Overy LLP Allied Pickfords - a SIRVA company Alticor Inc. Altria Group, Inc. American Express Company American International Group, Inc. American Standard Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Applica Incorporated Applied Materials, Inc. Archer Daniels Midland Company Armstrong Teasdale LLP Asian American Coal, Inc. Avon Products, Inc. BNSF Railway BP Baker & Daniels Baker & McKenzie LLP Baker Botts LLP Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz BearingPoint, Inc. Bechtel Group, Inc. Belden CDT Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. Blackboard Inc. The Blackstone Group LP The Boeing Company Briggs & Stratton Corporation Brunswick Group LLP Burlington Resources Inc. CPNA International Ltd. Cargill, Incorporated Carus Chemical Company Case New Holland Inc. Caterpillar Inc. Celanese Acetate LLC Central Purchasing of China, Inc. Chart Industries, Inc. A. W. Chesterton Company Chevron Chicago Metallic Corp. Chindex International, Inc. Chrysallis Consulting LLC The Chubb Corporation CIGNA Corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. Citigroup Inc. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Clifford Chance LLP The Clorox Company The Coca-Cola Company The Cohen Group Colgate-Palmolive Company Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC ConocoPhillips Control Risks Group Corning Incorporated Crane Co. Crowell & Moring LLP Crown Equipment Corporation Cummins Inc. Curtiss-Wright Corporation DH China Consulting Ltd. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP DaimlerChrysler Corporation Danaher Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine Dell Inc. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Dewey Ballantine LLP The Walt Disney Company Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Dow Chemical Company Dow Jones & Company John Dudinsky & Associates E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Kodak Company Eaton Corporation Edelman Emerson Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Exxon Mobil Corporation FMC Corporation Federal Express Corporation Fluor Corporation Paul H. Folta & Associates, LLC Ford Motor Company Foster Wheeler North America Fox Intercultural Consulting Services Barbara Franklin Enterprises Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Garvey Schubert Barer General Electric Company General Motors Corporation Gerson Lehrman Group GlaxoSmithKline Global Industries, Ltd. Global Power Equipment Group Inc. Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company W. R. Grace & Co. W. W. Grainger, Inc. Gruber Systems Inc. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Harley-Davidson, Inc. Harsco Corporation Herbalife International of America Heritage Capital Advisors, LLC Hewlett-Packard Company Hill & Associates (Americas) Inc. Hills & Company Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. The Hoffman Agency Hogan & Hartson LLP Honeywell Human Resource Services, Inc. Hutchinson Technology Inc. IBM Corporation ITT Industries, Inc. Ingersoll-Rand Company Intel Corporation International Paper Company Intrado, Inc. Invacare Corporation Jenessco Industries, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Jones Day KaiTai Comprehensive Technologies Kamsky Associates, Inc. Kanawha Scales & Systems, Inc. Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc. Kaye Scholer LLP Kinsella Group, Inc. Kissinger McLarty Associates E. J. Krause & Associates LaFrance Corp. Lexmark International, Inc. Liberty International Holdings, Inc. Lovells Lucent Technologies Lyondell Chemical Company MRI Worldwide China Group MTS Systems Corporation Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Mary Kay Inc. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw McCandlish Holton, PC J. Ray McDermott/Babcock & Wilcox The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. Merrill Lynch MetLife, Inc. Micron Technology, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Mine Safety Appliances Company Modern Drop Forge Company

Monarch Import Company Monitor Group Monsanto Company Moody's Investors Service Moore Recycling Associates Inc. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. Morgan Stanley Morrison & Foerster LLP The Mosaic Company Motorola, Inc. New York Life International, LLC Noble Corporation Nortel Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. O'Melveny & Myers LLP Orrick-Coudert Oshkosh Truck Corporation PRD Inc. Pacific Trade International Inc. Parsons Brinckerhoff International Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Payless ShoeSource PepsiCo, Inc. Pfizer Inc Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Praxair, Inc. Preston Gates & Ellis LLP PricewaterhouseCoopers Prochimie International, Inc. Prudential Financial QUALCOMM Incorporated Riddell*Tseng Rockwell Automation Rohm and Haas Company Rouse & Co. International E. C. Ryan International, Inc. SOR Inc. Samuels International Associates, Inc. Sara Lee Corporation The Scowcroft Group Sedgman, LLC Shaklee Corporation Shell International Exploration & Production Shon Strategies Sidley Austin LLP Sierra Asia Partners USA, Ltd. A. O. Smith Corporation Squire Sanders & Dempsey Standard Chartered Bank Steptoe & Johnson LLP Stonebridge International LLC The Stowell Company Sun Microsystems, Inc. SureBlock Company Sybase, Inc. Tektronix, Inc. Tenneco Automotive Texas Instruments Incorporated Thacher Proffitt & Wood ThreeSixty Sourcing Inc. Time Warner Inc. The Timken Company Tyco International UPS Underwriters Laboratories Inc. United Airlines, Inc. United Technologies Corporation The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino Vernay Laboratories, Inc. Visa International WBC Global, LLC WPP Group Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Washington Group International Watson Wyatt Worldwide Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC Weyerhaeuser Company Whirlpool Corporation White & Case LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Zachry Global Services, Inc.

[Dr. Marten]

“There have been so many incidents like this, we must presume that ethnic Chinese are spies until proved otherwise.”

ooooh..maybe we can just place them all into internment camps?

[ETL]

From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Venezuela%27s+Chavez+welcomes+Russian+warships%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

More Yahoo search results for Russia and Venezuela connections:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_X30pZJCJEAfCtXNyoA?p=Russia+Venezuela+bombers+tanks+arms&y=Search&fr=404_news
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From CBS-News:
July 29, 2006
"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml

[ETL]

Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama
Associated Foreign Press (AFP), April 2, 2009, Anna Smolchenko
"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"
http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama
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April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[Never on my watch]

This is an F’n dangerous world and the faint of heart have no business holding positions of leadership.

While Obama is flitting about (apologizing for America, bowing to monarchs, embracing and sipping champagne with socialists and despots), our enemies are firming their resolve, formalizing their plans and testing our defenses.

Our inaction is feeding them.

[rockinqsranch]

“In January, Lloyd’s paid a $350 million fine to settle accusations it “stripped” information from Iranian money transfers to New York banks, hiding where the cash came from.”

So....what does this mean? It reads as though Lloyds Bank is/was willfully aiding and abetting a Chinese clandestine offensive operation against Western interests.

Understatement would be that this is not a good thing.

This deserves much more scrutiny than apparent by the comment “Authorities first stumbled over the scheme seven months ago in an unrelated probe into Iranian money-laundering through Lloyd’s, a British bank.”

SHEESH!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Ya ya ya. Straw man argument.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"We are past ethnic IDing"

Well we shouldn't be. VAST numbers of ethnic Chinese are loyal to China.