Posted on 03/25/2008 7:52:03 AM PDT by Pyro7480
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming.
Why would that be a mistake?
I hate when that happens. /sarcasm
As soon as Taiwan gets done copying it, we can get it back. Sounds like a plan to me.
“Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!!” ;-)
The Chinese will love this.
Yeah, it was a mistake. That’s what we’re telling the ChiComs and we’re sticking to it, too!
Personally, I think it is hilarious, but the contention is that it is going to make China mad.
Oops.
At least we didn’t ship them to China.
Just like we “accidently” bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
Our bad! So sorry.
right but giving the chicoms all of Loral’s missle targeting information under Slick Willie was never at question.
Pentagon Admits Mistaken Arms Shipment
By ROBERT BURNS – 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear components for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming.
It said the items have been returned to the United States.
At a Pentagon news conference, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the misshipped items were four nose cone assemblies for ICBMs. He also said they were delivered to Taiwan in March 2005 and had been sent instead of helicopter batteries that had been ordered by Taiwan.
“This could not be construed as being nuclear material. It is a component for the fuse in the nosecone for a nuclear system,” Wynne said. “We are very concerned about it.”
Wynne said the matter is under investigation. He said the Taiwanese authorities notified U.S. officials of the mistake.
Neither the Chinese Embassy nor Taiwan diplomats in Washington immediately responded to requests for comment.
Ryan Henry, the No. 2 policy official in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said President Bush was notified of the mistake and the actions to recover the items. Henry called the mistake “disconcerting” and intolerable. He said the Chinese government has been notified of the error.
Henry said an examination of the site in Taiwan where the components had been stored after delivery indicated that they had not been tampered with. He said the components were “quite dated,” as part of a system designed in the 1960s.
I wonder if we used UPS?
Can we mistakenly ship tactical nukes to Tibet?
The free Chinese will.
The Red Chinese — not so much.
Shipping error. Gotta hate when UPS makes those mistakes.....
“He also said they were delivered to Taiwan in March 2005”
So they’ve had them for 3 years!!!???
This is going to make the ChiComs pee their pants.
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