PAKISTANI ARMS DEALER - PLOT TO ILLEGALLY EXPORT U.S. FIGHTER JET COMPONENTS TO MIDDLE EAST

ICE, ICE, Baby! ^ | March 17, 2006

[Calpernia]

See this one too:

LOS ANGELES MAN CHARGED FOR ATTEMPTING TO SHIP SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN

[Calpernia]

United Arab Emirates mentioned again here.

[Calpernia]

ICE ping

[Frenetic]

I thought Muslims were gods greatest creations? You'd think they could just manufacture what they want themselves instead of having to smuggle in parts from the infidels. </sarc>

[Velveeta]

Hmmmmmm.
Shipping to our 'friends' in the UAE.
Gotcha.

[Calpernia]

UAE mentioned in the link in post 1 too.

[Space Wrangler]

I heard this said in the aftermath of 9/11:

These people can steal an airplane and fly it into a great building, but they can neither build an airplane, or a great building.

FWIW.

[Velveeta]

Thanks, I see that now.

If the UAE ran the ports, I'm convinced now, that these types of components would be a piece of cake to export.

Funny about the ports deal, I was more worried about what might arrive AT our ports. Hadn't really considered what might be transported out.

[Calpernia]

I'm still totally confused about that whole port deal debacle.

[Velveeta]

Me too.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I wonder what the plans were for it. Sounds more like they were sending it over in order to assemble items for training, possibly in a legit school environment? We already train people from there, so I don't know...makes you go "hmmm"

[Calpernia]

Are you talking about Iran?

[RS]

Might be interesting to find out what the quantities were, they might have found these parts were perfect for something else they are doing.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Maybe they were making one of these :)

[Tennessee_Bob]

They mention the J-85 is used on the F-5, but don't mention that it's original purpose was as a one time use drone motor. Hmm...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hey wonder if its for the drone we lost a while back. Hmmm

/tinfoil
Forget that
/aluminum plating

[Calpernia]

I forgot about that!

[Calpernia]

I bet those parts would work well with...

[Tennessee_Bob]

They might - we always thought of the J-85 as a tinkertoy. But then again, we were working on real jet engines.

[RS]

From the other thread, with gas pressure sensors, temperature amps, and injection nozzles, it might have something to do with the gas centrifuges that are used to enrich uranium.
Or, constructing things that just LOOK like enrichment devices so they can destroy them or leave the U.N. cameras watching those dummies while the real ones are somewhere else.