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Britons Named In Plots To Arm Iran
The Observer ^ | September 28, 2008 | Mark Townsend

Posted on 09/28/2008 7:19:02 AM PDT by Strategy

A British businessman has been arrested after being named in a plot to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction, while two more at the centre of an international manhunt are accused of smuggling military parts to Tehran.

Farshi Gillardian, from Hendon in north London, was detained by Scotland Yard officers last week after being accused by the US authorities of attempting to supply weapons components illegally to Iran.

The other two British businessmen remain at large after allegedly supplying batteries for surface-to-air missiles and military aircraft parts to Tehran. Christopher Tappin vanished after leaving his Surrey freight company, while 77-year-old Brian Woodford, from Dorset, has fled to the Far East.

Gillardian, 39, is named in US court documents as being involved in a clandestine international network accused of supplying electronic parts for roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan and of helping Tehran to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; iran; iraq; israel; proliferation

1 posted on 09/28/2008 7:19:02 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

How many crimes of this type remain undetected?


2 posted on 09/28/2008 7:25:20 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Strategy

Didn’t the U.K. become the Islamic Republic of Britain recently? I thought arming their motherland Iran was foremost in their plans? /sarc

The U.K. has lost it’s way and has set the path for it’s own destruction. It’s people are too cowardly to take back their nation and as with all cowards, will get what they have coming. Lets just hope America doesn’t follow suit within the next few years.


3 posted on 09/28/2008 7:33:40 AM PDT by Lazarus Starr
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To: Strategy

Whatever happened to that MP, Galloway, who ran interference for Saddam Hussein? Did he ever get jail time?


4 posted on 09/28/2008 7:54:09 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Lazarus Starr
The U.K. has lost it’s way and has set the path for it’s own destruction. It’s people are too cowardly to take back their nation and as with all cowards, will get what they have coming. Lets just hope America doesn’t follow suit within the next few years.

Put Nobama in charge and it will.

5 posted on 09/28/2008 8:23:33 AM PDT by JEC ((Pray for ALL our troops))
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