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| Report: Iraq Sought German Missile Parts |
| 2003-02-23 |
| German police have arrested two men suspected of trying to supply Iraq with missile technology in violation of a U.N. embargo and German export laws. Prosecutors in the western city of Bielefeld suspect a 60-year-old German businessman and a 49-year-old Iraqi-born German national of trying to procure electronic parts similar to those used in shoulder-launched Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. German authorities did not release the names of the two suspects arrested last month. According to a summary of a report to be broadcast Monday on the ARD channel, government military experts told prosecutors one of the parts shows "striking similarity to components in Stinger missiles." It did not give further details. Our friends the Fritzies... Separately, a German news weekly reported that investigators have raided the offices and homes of staff at German industrial giant Siemens, seizing documents for an investigation into a delivery of telephone equipment to Baghdad. Siemens spokesman Peter Gottal confirmed that investigators had visited the Munich-based company, the Focus weekly said. Neither Munich prosecutors nor Siemens officials could be reached Saturday. According to the report, investigators are looking into the delivery in 1998 of equipment via a Slovenian Siemens subsidiary to Baghdad. Unobtrusively cleaning house, are we? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 But..but...to supply Iraq with prohibited materials yet oppose consequences since those materials supposedly don't exist would be... uh...hypocritical? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-23 16:00:44 |