Posted on 08/29/2009 10:29:03 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Pakistan upgraded U.S.-made missiles, test-fired: NYT
Updated at: 0901 PST, Sunday, August 30, 2009
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying U.S.-made missiles to expand its ability to hit land-based targets, which would constitute a threat to India, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Citing senior administration and Congressional officials, the Times said the charge came in late June through an unpublicized diplomatic protest to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and other top Pakistani officials.
The accusation, made amid growing concerns about Pakistan's increasingly rapid conventional and nuclear weapons development, triggered a new round of U.S.-Pakistani tensions, the report added.
"There's a concerted effort to get these guys to slow down," the newspaper quoted a senior administration official as saying. "Their energies are misdirected," the official added.
A senior Pakistani official called the accusation "incorrect," saying that the missile tested was developed by Pakistan, just as it had modified North Korean designs to build a range of land-based missiles.
U.S. officials said the disputed weapon is a conventional one based on the Harpoon anti-ship missiles that were sold to Pakistan during the Reagan administration as a defensive weapon, the newspaper reported, but Pakistan has upgraded and modified it into surface to surface missile.
Unbelievable. They “accused” them.
I suppose a strongly worded letter is next.
Sheesh. Even blind idiots can see weakness in a President. Obama is their friend, what’s he going to do anyway?
Obama has thrown the legal sanctity of any kind of contract into the toilet. After what they did with the investors involved in Chrysler and GM, why should any contracts matter, even amongst people who you expect to them to, never mind the ones like the Chinese or North Koreans who you fully expect to violate the guidelines of any agreement.
Nothing new. The Pakistani sent U.S. Stinger missiles to North Korea for reverse engineering. This was eventually going to happen.
Here is an article on Pakistan selling Stinger Missiles to North Korea
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1990koreabattery
i get teary at the awesome power of the lord and america in those pictures.
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