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Austrian sniper rifles sold to Iran acquired by insurgents in Iraq
Telegraph UK ^
| 14/02/2007
| Telegraph
Posted on 02/15/2007 10:10:26 AM PST by rogernz
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To: rogernz
HEADLINE:
Austrian sniper rifles sold to Iran acquired by given by Iran government to insurgents in IraqThere. I fixed it.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:29:01 PM PST
by
Gritty
(There is no escape from the war Iran is waging against us, intensifying every passing hour-M Ledeen)
To: scooter2
The Iranians still fly and operate their F-14. They have invested a great deal of money in reverse engineering parts to keep those birds flying. I've served in the region and the Iranian U.S. supplied fleet of F-14, F-4 and F-5s are still very much up and running.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:28:20 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
To: rogernz
Steyr
wanted to sell in the US market, but stupid US import laws prevented it. Reality amounted to "let us sell in the USA, or we'll have to fill the Iranian order." As the US wouldn't budge, the company had to do business elsewhere.
Austria has no beef with Iran.
When you tell a foreign company (which needs sales to survive) "you can't sell here, and we don't want you to sell there", they tend to ignore you and go to where the buyers are.
A pity, as I want a Steyr .50!
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:40:26 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: Robe
who sold what? what kind of gas do you mean? if you ar talking about ??
To: Tommyjo
well iran is one of the most important trade partners of austria. i think austrians officials are aware of the nuclear programm of iran ( whitch i can not support) but austria is also exporting other goods. so i think it is good that there are also some people in the world that can read between the lines and have an opinion that grew on normal homan intelligence!
cheres
thomas
To: Sax
so why do the us have to use uav for controlling the mexican border? is that a war area? why not use sniper rifels?
To: rogernz
it ideot's are the greates danger to all!
To: supertommy
If I recall correctly (I may be wrong,,GASP)that it was a Austrian firm IG Farben that produced and sold the gas (Zyklon B)that the Germans used in the Gas chambers (Auschwitz) during WWII.. their defense after the war was, yes we sold it, but we were not responsible for how it was used.
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02/16/2007 5:30:19 PM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: rogernz
If Islam is the religion of peace and
Iran is totally in love with Islam - why -
would Iran need sniper rifles?
HMMMMMMMMMMM?
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02/16/2007 5:32:29 PM PST
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Basheva
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