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Serbia, arms dealer to Libya, silent on rebellion
AP, Google ^ | 03-05-2011 | AP

Posted on 03/05/2011 7:54:10 AM PST by Traianus

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — As Libya churned with popular rebellion, Serbia's ex-president flew to Tripoli to arrange an interview with Moammar Gadhafi for a Serbian TV channel — giving the Libyan leader a platform to bluster about his grip on power.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balkans; islam; libya; rebellion; serbia

1 posted on 03/05/2011 7:54:14 AM PST by Traianus
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To: Traianus

This story is probably pushed by France or one of the other big arms sellers to Libya. Serbia = red herring or whipping boy.


2 posted on 03/05/2011 8:39:48 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: Traianus

Qadaffi is finished. Using Serbian ammo, all his forces handguns will be jammomatics.


3 posted on 03/05/2011 9:33:08 AM PST by gusty
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To: Traianus

More Serbia-bashing. I don’t even have to read the article.


4 posted on 03/05/2011 9:58:01 AM PST by mrreaganaut (weltschmerz: the sadness one feels when contemplating how far the real world is from an ideal world.)
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To: Traianus
During the 1970s and 80s Yugoslavia's defense industry struck several export deals with nations in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, including Saddam Hussein's Iraq....

So what. That is, for example, the US also provided weapons to Saddam in 1980s (during the Iran-Iraq war).

5 posted on 03/05/2011 3:51:55 PM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic
So what. That is, for example, the US also provided weapons to Saddam in 1980s (during the Iran-Iraq war).

That is a long-lived, U.S.-Bashing-Left-wing "Big Lie"; i.e., widely believed because it has been repeated so oftemn.

If you believe it,please let us know which Soviet weapons we supplied?

6 posted on 03/05/2011 4:17:51 PM PST by Castlebar
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To: Castlebar
If you believe it...

Are you suggesting that Howard Teicher lied in his (1995) affidavit, Castlebar?

7 posted on 03/05/2011 10:28:05 PM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic

We speak of Serbia NOW....


8 posted on 03/06/2011 12:17:51 AM PST by Traianus (YES I GOT HIM! BASHAR IS 666....)
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To: Traianus
We speak of Serbia NOW....

My quote comes from directly the article you posted. Mkay.

9 posted on 03/06/2011 12:26:37 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic
Apologies for not answering sooner; I went to bed last night, and a serious question deserves an answer.

LjubivojeRadosavljevic: "Are you suggesting that Howard Teicher lied in his (1995) affidavit, Castlebar?"

First someperspective on the fellow youbring up,from the New York Times(of all Pro-U.S. sources, ha-ha)

HOWARD TEICHER, mad as hell and apparently not going to take it anymore, is caustic about United States Middle East policies. He is scornful of major figures he worked under, principally Ronald Reagan and Caspar W. Weinberger, and angry over his shabby treatment at the hands of a Government he served for 10 years.

Even with all that, if you read this Jimmy-Carter-State-Department-holdover-weasel's affadavit, while it makes extreme claims that the U.S. was "rooting" for Iraq - and "monitoring" the flow of arms to them, even Teicher has to flatly admit (Section 11 of the affadavit)

11. One of the reasons that the United States refused to license or sell U.S. origin weapons to Iraq was that the supply of non-U.S. origin.....

Section 12 of the Affadavit:

12. Most of the Iraqi's military hardware was of Soviet origin. Regular United States or NATO ammunition and spare parts could not be used in this Soviet weaponry.

Teicher makes a claim that at one point we suppiled Iraq with one specific armor piercing round that they could not get elsewhere. No one has ever backed him up on that claim, and he cannot supply any technical information about that round.

So yeah,in answer to your question, my statement stands.

10 posted on 03/06/2011 9:40:11 AM PST by Castlebar
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