It's the FF

[Cees Binkhorst]

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William Saffire heeft vandaag in een column in de NYT bekend gemaakt
dat de Fransen de Irakezen hebben geholpen aan materiaal om raketten
te maken met een grotere reikwijdte dan de toegestane 150 km.

Met andere woorden it's the FF who do it all the time (naar believen
invullen: fucking french, french fries, freedom fries :).

Hij heeft de informatie uit eigen bron, niet van de spooks :))).

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/opinion/13SAFI.html
France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American
and British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the
world to discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying
Saddam Hussein with materials used in building long-range surface-to-
surface missiles.

We're not talking about short-range Al Samoud 2 missiles, which
Saddam is ostentatiously destroying to help his protectors avert an
invasion, nor his old mobile Scuds. The delivery system for mass
destruction warheads requires a much more sophisticated propulsion
system and fuels.
[knip]
A shipment of 20 tons of HTPB, whose sale to Iraq is forbidden by
U.N. resolutions and the oil-for-food agreement, left China in August
2002 in a 40-foot container. It arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus
(fortified by the Knights Templar in 1183, and the Mediterranean
terminus for an Iraqi oil pipeline today) and was received there by a
trading company that was an intermediary for the Iraqi missile
industry, the end user. The HTPB was then trucked across Syria to
Iraq.
[knip]
I'm also told that a contract was signed last April in Paris for five
tons of 99 percent unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine, another advanced
missile fuel, which is produced by France's Société Nationale des
Poudre et Explosifs. In addition, Iraqi attempts to buy an oxidizer
for solid propellant missiles, ammonium perchlorate, were successful,
at least on paper. Both chemicals, like HTPB, require explicit
approval by the U.N. Sanctions Committee before they can be sold to
Iraq.
[knip]
Is this account what journalists call a "keeper," one held back for
publication at a critical moment, made more newsworthy by the
Security Council debate? No; I've been poking around for only about a
week, starting with data originating from an Arab source, not from
the C.I.A. (Anti-Kurdish analysts at Langley have it in for me for
embarrassing them for 18 months on Al Qaeda's ties to Saddam,
especially in the terrorist Ansar enclave in Iraqi Kurdistan.)

This detail about the France-China-Syria-Iraq propellant
collaboration makes for dull reading, but reveals some of the
motivation behind the campaign of those nations to suppress the
truth. The truth, however, will out.

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