BUSH ADMIN Supplying Iran With Military Gear

[kpete]

AP: Iran gets army gear in Pentagon sale By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries — including Iran and China — who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components.

In one case, federal investigators said, the contraband made it to Iran, a country President Bush branded part of an "axis of evil."

In that instance, a Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon surplus sale. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, speaking on condition of anonymity, say those parts made it to Iran.

The surplus sales can operate like a supermarket for arms dealers.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_surplus_stings

[WinkyDink]

1. It has always been, and always will be, about $$$$$$$.

[htuttle]

2. Remember when Al Martin used to write about the goings on at the Redstone Arsenal?

This was the sort of stuff he was talking about.

Here's an old article from 2001 he wrote about it:
http://www.truefacts.co.uk/articles/110901d.html

Here's another:
http://www.etherzone.com/2001/mart040601.shtml

NOTE: I'd be the last person to assert that Al Martin was a credible source. However, given that these particular stories have now been confirmed, I'd say he's not ALWAYS full of crap -- just some of the time.