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2007-09-04 Afghanistan

Taleban 'getting Chinese weapons' - via Iran?

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Peshawar, Pakistan is a major market for Chinese arms. The Musharaf government has done nothing about stopping that arms trade. The Iranians finance Sunni terror groups as a means to undermine US foreign policy, but they are concerned about further strengthening of the drug mafia. There are at least 2 million heroin addicts in Iran.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-04 01:40|| 2007-09-04 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Korea's $20 million ransom will go a long way in China.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-04 06:29|| 2007-09-04 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 They said these included Chinese-made air-to-surface missiles

new weaponry for the Taliban Air Force? Or just plain bad writing by an ignorant "journalist" with an agenda?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-04 08:05|| 2007-09-04 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4
Britain has privately complained to Beijing that Chinese-made weapons are being used by the Taleban to attack British troops in Afghanistan.

Pappy is it time to start giving Russian anti-aircraft missles to the Western Islamist in China?

How 'bout "WE" shoot down a few large aircraft in Western China with some Special Forces A Teams, Friends, by feinting to be Islamist? btw, do u have any Special Forces Friends? 'cause i currently don't.

well take a bite outta that Pappy!! Grrr!

~:)

/who knows the whole article could be pure Bunkum

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-04 12:34|| 2007-09-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Pappy is it time to start giving Russian anti-aircraft missles to the Western Islamist in China?

Good question. Chinese have been supplying Pakistan and Africa (via Pakistan) for decades. Ask 3dc about that sometime.

Might be a good time to start playing heavy-buyer in the Afghan markets.

How 'bout "WE" shoot down a few large aircraft in Western China with some Special Forces A Teams, Friends, by feinting to be Islamist? btw, do u have any Special Forces Friends? 'cause i currently don't.

Marine Recon.

well take a bite outta that Pappy!! Grrr!
~:)

Might be an appropriate time to hint that a) the US Olympics team might not be able to make it b) any US or US-multinational who sponsors the Olympics gets a nice chat with the Treasury Department and c) it might be time to start putting a crimp in importing from China.

/who knows the whole article could be pure Bunkum

I think it's relatively factual.

Posted by Pappy 2007-09-04 18:37|| 2007-09-04 18:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Might be an appropriate time to hint that a) the US Olympics team might not be able to make it b) any US or US-multinational who sponsors the Olympics gets a nice chat with the Treasury Department and c) it might be time to start putting a crimp in importing from China.

All of the above, Pappy. All of the above. China has so much invested in the Olympicsboth face-wise and financiallythat they are probably at their most vulnerable for the last few decades. This is the precise moment to give them their turn in the barrel. Force them to revalue their currency plus take substantive measures towards enforcing export quality control and combating intellectual property theft.

Too bad our ~~politicians~~ traitor elite are such whores for the Politburo. This is our one big chance to reverse a lot of damage done. I'm not saying that we can balance the ledger or anything approaching it but the playing field can be brought back to near-level for once in a very long time. A US ban on travel to China for the Olympics' duration would cost the communists untold billions in lost revenue andfar worseinvalidate the final sporting event category scores just like what happened with Moscow in 1980.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-04 20:03|| 2007-09-04 20:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Arms exports by country:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil_con_arm_exp-military-conventional-arms-exports

Posted by Darrell 2007-09-04 20:25|| 2007-09-04 20:25|| Front Page Top

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