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  • The French: "I'm Shocked, Shocked!" Embargo, Schmargo: French-German missile

    04/15/2003 5:40:19 PM PDT · by hotpotato · 23 replies · 256+ views
    Newsweek ^ | April 21, 2003 | Arian Campo-Flores, Kevin Peraino, Mark Hosenball
    Conservatives on Capitol Hill are already fuming at new evidence of possible French perfidy NEWSWEEK April 21 issue — The French government insists that it has strictly enforced a tight embargo imposed on Saddam Hussein’s regime by the United Nations in 1990. But Saddam never lost his taste for French weapons or luxury goods. And evidence found by U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq suggests that—despite U.N. sanctions—the dictator continued to receive an abundant supply of both until very recently. LT. GREG HOLMES, a tactical intelligence officer with the Third Infantry Division, told NEWSWEEK that U.S. forces discovered 51...