Posted on 01/31/2007 11:16:04 AM PST by jdm
A man has been accused of trying to buy batteries that power Hawk surface-to-air missile systems for export to Iran, US Immigration officials said.
Robert Caldwell, 56, who owns an export brokerage company, was a middleman in a scheme to smuggle Hawk missile parts to Iran, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents alleged in an affidavit. (AP)
SAN ANTONIO: A man has been accused of trying to buy batteries that power Hawk surface-to-air missile systems for export to Iran, U.S. immigration officials said.
Robert Caldwell, 56, who owns an export brokerage company, was a middleman in a scheme to smuggle Hawk missile parts to Iran, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents alleged in an affidavit.
He is charged with conspiring to export without a license items regulated by U.S. State Department arms regulations, the San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday, citing court documents.
Caldwell told agents he was led to believe the batteries had other applications and were for a navigational system.
"Caldwell told (special agents) that he knew it was illegal to do this, but did not know the consequences," the affidavit said.
His lawyer, Van Hilley, said Caldwell had never been arrested and that he would seek to have Caldwell released from jail.
Last year's arrest of another man who tried to buy batteries for export to Iran led authorities to Caldwell, the affadavit said.
The Hawk missile system was developed in the 1950s for U.S. forces and has largely been replaced by newer, more advanced systems, according to the U.S. Army's Web site. Other countries also bought the systems from manufacturers.
he should have focused on the imports.
LOL
This country is full of people like this guy.
Registered Democrat.
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Do we still execute traitors?
Funny!
Get the baggies out, Jack!
Nope we send them to Congress.
Knowing this isn't an episode of '24', it leaves only the reality that our real government boys just fell on this by coincidence. My question is how many batteries were shipped before we finally caught on?
Why don't guys like this ever work with our guys to sell them stuff that blows up on command?
It could be brilliant. We supply him with a whole bunch of batteries which work fine, until our forces start flying overhead... then we push a button, and all their batteries explode.
I always wondered why we didn't have some kind of location beacon in those Stingers we gave the Afghans years ago... just so we could track them. I mean, they can track stolen cars, and they cost less than a stinger...
Hang the bastard
And if he still won't talk...then Jack will just have to find his kids.
Religion of Peace?
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