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| Italy: Police arrest nine suspected Iranian arms traffickers |
| 2010-03-03 |
| Italian police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking arms to Iran. Iranian secret service agents were allegedly among those arrested by police in the northern city of Milan on Wednesday. Both Italians and Iranians were detained but none of the nine have so far been identified. Police said they were accused of illegally exporting arms and armament systems. Arms exports to Iran are strictly controlled under a United Nations embargo. Italy is one of Iran's largest trading partners in the European Union. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 German firms also built Saddam Hussein's underground bomb-proof palaces, but we needn't mention that -- it would poison the atmosphere. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-03 23:47 |
| #3 German firms played a major role in constructing the tunnels Iran has been using in its nuclear program. Germans also exported a fair amount of forbidden processing equipment, including centrifuges. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-03-03 23:22 |
| #2 I seem to recall that Germany was Iran's biggest trading partner... although whether that was overall or just in Europe I do not recall. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-03-03 23:08 |
| #1 Italy is one of Iran's largest trading partners in the European Union. Game, charged with terrorism for a bomb blast, attended Milan's Viale Jenner Mosque. He also compiled a 'dossier' containing information on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and other government ministers. The al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab movement, which controls most of central and southern Somalia, said food distributed by the U.N. agency had undermined local farmers and accused it of acting with a political agenda. The group accused the Rome-based agency of distributing food that was past its expiry date, which had caused people to fall ill, and alleged that its operations was disguised support for the weak U.N.-backed transitional government. Italy will be another front on the war on terror if it doesn't get it together. Paying ransoms over the years appeases no one. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-03-03 12:06 |