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China arming terrorists
WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 06-15-07 | BILL GERTZ

Posted on 06/15/2007 2:51:43 PM PDT by Alaphiah123

Edited on 06/15/2007 3:39:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.

U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments in advance were met with stonewalling by Beijing, which insisted it knew nothing about the shipments and asked for additional intelligence on the transfers. The ploy has been used in the past by China to hide its arms-proliferation activities from the United States, according to U.S. officials with access to the intelligence reports.

Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms.

The Washington Times reported June 5 that Chinese-made HN-5 anti-aircraft missiles were being used by the Taliban.........."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armingterrorist; china; gertz; india; iran; northkorea; pakistan
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To: romanesq

That’s why we put all of our trust in God, because when the bomb drops, He’s the only one you can trust.


21 posted on 06/15/2007 4:19:03 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: af_vet_rr

Hopw right you are!


22 posted on 06/15/2007 4:20:57 PM PDT by stockpirate (Juan` McCain and Jorge` W Bush, two birds of a feather!)
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To: FARS

That’s also my theory on why we have been reluctant to go after Iran and Syria. I believe the next major war in the middle east, and we are seeing the opening stages of it, will not stay confined to the middle east. If we went after Iran it would not surprise me in the least to see China go after Taiwan, or North Korea to target Japan. We would suddenly find ourselves with a world at war. I think we are much closer to an endgame than most people realize.


23 posted on 06/15/2007 4:21:20 PM PDT by Shaun_MD ("Republic of Texas")
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