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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541575/posts
Iranian Rockets Will Soon Be Able to Reach Berlin (Iran gets missile parts from North Korea, China)
Bild Zeitung (In German) ^ | 17-12-2005 | Einar Koch
Posted on 12/16/2005 12:28:23 AM PST by 12B
My translated synopsis:
Bild Zeitung quotes BND (German Intelligence) sources saying Iran has purchased 18 kits (BM-25 Mobile missiles) from North Korea. The kits could help extend the range of its Russian SS-N-6 missiles to 3500 km, the distance between Teheran and Berlin. Previously it was only known that Iran had Shehab-3 missiles with a range of 1300 km. The BND warns that Germany and other partzs of Euriope could be threatened mid to long term by Iran's new first strike capabilities.
The BND has intelligence indicating Iranian scientists are working intensively to attach nuclear warheads to its missiles. Near Täbriz, 600 km North of Teheran, the BND has located a test-pad for silo based missiles.
The BND also warned that China had shipped aluminum rings to Iran which could be used to build multi-stage rockets with a range of 10,000 kn and which could reach the United States.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20051216-125642-1482r.htm
"Irishman sought in fake-notes case"
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 16, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. authorities formally will seek the extradition of the head of the Irish Workers Party, who was arrested in Northern Ireland in October on suspicion of conspiring with North Korean government officials to distribute $28 million worth of high-quality counterfeit $100 bills.
Sean Garland and six co-conspirators are accused in a federal grand jury indictment handed up in U.S. District Court in Washington of obtaining quantities of the counterfeit bills known as "supernotes" from North Korean officials that later were passed as real or resold in Britain and elsewhere.
Mr. Garland, 71, is chief of staff to the Official Irish Republican Army, or the remnants of the old IRA after a split in 1970, when many members left to form the Provisional Irish Republican Army."