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To: TexKat
Duncan Hunter continues to make this charge without citing any sources.

Duncan stated tonight that documents were turned over to GWB (who was unaware) of whatever info the documents contained.

Thanks for the info. But the questions remain;


1,808 posted on 03/09/2006 7:47:41 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

See my post #1810.


1,812 posted on 03/09/2006 7:50:49 PM PST by TexKat
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To: FreeReign; TexKat
Duncan Hunter continues to make this charge without citing any sources.

FreeReign, Do you realize that you are calling the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee a liar, and blindly trusting the Emir of Dubai? The world is upside down.

1,818 posted on 03/09/2006 7:54:44 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: FreeReign
It's not made up...

" On paper the shipment was harmless enough. Sixty-six American-made spark gaps--high-speed electrical switches used in medical devices to break up kidney stones--traveled from the manufacturer in Salem, Mass. late last summer to a buyer in Secaucus, N.J. From there, according to the export declaration, they were to be shipped to their ultimate destination in Cape Town, South Africa. But these spark gaps can also be used to detonate nuclear bombs--and it turned out that the goods were aimed at an end user in Pakistan, with a stopover in Dubai. The commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, where trading activity accounts for the biggest single chunk (16.5%) of a $20 billion economy, has become a favorite diversion point on the Persian Gulf for shady cargo. With no export controls and hardly any bureaucracy at ports, airports and free zones, this entrepôt provides stellar cover for smugglers hoping to bypass U.S. embargoes...

Still don't believe it ? Go to Forbes and read the entire article.

1,869 posted on 03/09/2006 8:43:04 PM PST by lawdog
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