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U.S. SELLS FORBIDDEN MILITARY PARTS TO IRAN, CHINA



Navy F-14 Tomcat (US Navy Photo)

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.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/news2/2007/01/us_selling_forb.html
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There is a term used when someone purchases goods for someone who cannot legally purchase them theirselves...it's call a straw purchase. You prosecute the one that sold the goods to the dealer who resold them to the bad guys...not the original seller. They "exploited security flaws"...that about covers it.

BTW, I saw this last night on the internet...it must be breaking really slow Razzer

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