I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Sully- who wrote (8409)	4/11/2005 2:33:03 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Did Spain Sell WMD To Hugo Chavez? Captain's Quarters Franco Aléman at Barcepundit believes he has found a disturbing report that has yet to receive any attention in either the global media or the blogosphere. According to this report last week from the Europa Press, Spain sold a small amount of chemical and radioactive materials to Venezuela in 2004: <<< During the first semester of 2004 Spain sold chemical warfare agents and radioactive materials to Venezuela worth €539.603 according to a report entitled "Spanish exports of defence materials and related products and technologies". The report, produced by Spain's Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, was revealed to Europe Press. Venezuela appeared as the twelfth buyer of such defence material to Spain for the period that saw José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero winning the vote over Partido Popular. Report's statistics show that Venezuela was the only country under the category "countries to which chemical warfare agents and radioactive materials were sold". Worth noting that the said category includes "biological and nerve agents destined to chemical warfare" of which Venezuela bought €30.374. >>> The financial worth of the materials implies that the amounts were small enough to probably be used only for testing and development, but that's bad enough in the hands of Hugo Chavez. Why would anyone sell this kind of material to Chavez, who has become increasingly unstable, accusing all sorts of people of conspiring to kill him and aligning himself ever closer to Fidel Castro? Barcepundit deduces in his post that while the date of the sale is not made clear in the Spanish-language documents, the reference to "first semester" of 2004 makes it more likely that the current Zapatero government sold the material and not the previous Aznar administration. If Spain has decided to start exporting chemical and radioactive materials to unstable dictators like Chavez, then the US needs to reconsider its relationship with the Spaniards pronto. This report needs further investigation to determine its accuracy and the current status of the materials in question. Given Chavez' hostility of late to the US and his coziness to Cuba, we might find that material deployed against us in the near future. UPDATE: These figures are hundreds of thousands of Euros, not hundreds (European notation uses decimals in place of commas) -- but for chemical and radiological material, it's still not a large number. Posted by Captain captainsquartersblog.com barcepundit-english.blogspot.com vcrisis.com

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next