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2008-04-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-09 14:07|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "At the height of the Nazi terror during the 1940s, it was not atypical for a slave worker to build electrical switches for Siemens in the morning and be snuffed out in a Siemens-made gas chamber in the afternoon..."

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-09 14:25|| 2008-04-09 14:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I love the picture, the modern laptop, being monitored by a guy with an ancient (And obsolete) reel to reel tape recorder. Hopelessly outdated.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-09 14:32|| 2008-04-09 14:32|| Front Page Top

#3 wasn't it the germans that were also helping Iraq get their nuclear ambitions going?

Posted by Elmeash Jones5795 2008-04-09 14:48|| 2008-04-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I like the rotary dial phone color coordinated with the metal desk. Very 1967.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-09 14:51|| 2008-04-09 14:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Trost said Siemens "adheres to the European Union, United Nations and German guidelines" covering restricted trade with Iran.
Siemantics. EU and UN "guidelines" are kinda like following the "10 Suggestions", instead of the 10 Commandments, isn't it?

Posted by Thealing Borgia6122 2008-04-09 15:07|| 2008-04-09 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Germany provided China with the sophisticated ELINT gear they installed on great Coco Island in the Bay of Bengal.
Reportedly destroyed in the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Germans have not yet agreed to resupply the equipment, used to spy on the Indians and the US fleet.

Posted by john frum 2008-04-09 15:30|| 2008-04-09 15:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The Iraqis (in 1991) had a complex, deep, redundant anti- air warning and control system... built by the French.
GHWB made a few phone calls.
Suddenly WE had the plans, too.

I wonder who is going to benefit more from this German/Iranian deal...

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-04-09 15:41|| 2008-04-09 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The Germans built Saddam Hussein's fancy bunkers deep underground, Elmeash Jones5795, but I don't recall about nuclear ambitions. Isn't Germany Iran's #1 trading partner?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-09 16:57|| 2008-04-09 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Obviously we didn't get them all the first time.

There are several airworthy B-17s out there though and a well-timed overflight of the Siemens offices might make the point.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-04-09 21:59|| 2008-04-09 21:59|| Front Page Top

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