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To: Shivram Hala who wrote (8572)	10/19/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Shivram Hala	Respond to of 12475

Excerpts - China's Missile Exports and Assistance to Pakistan - Statements and Developments - A chronology This is also from CNS dicklesshead. Maybe you problem is that you don't know how to read. Or maybe you just have a comprehension disability. In plain english... you just don't get it. Now we know how good your research is. cns.miis.edu And BTW nowhere does it state that the M11 have been uncrated. To the contrary here's what it has. 6/11/98: In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dr. Gordon Oehler - the former Director of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center - revealed several interesting details about China's M-11 missile exports to Pakistan. Many of the details Dr. Oehler provided have not before been released in the public realm. --------------- Read the report -------------- 6/12/96: According to US intelligence agencies, Pakistan has deployed the M-11 missiles it received from China in 1993. Whether or not the missiles are operational is the topic of ongoing debate between various US agencies drafting an intelligence report. In a 13 June 1996 Washington Post article, CIA and Defense Department intelligence officials argue that Pakistan's M-11 missiles should be considered operational because they have been assigned to an army unit trained by Chinese technicians to operate the missiles. The State Department disagreed with the assessment, saying that the missiles are not operational until they are assembled and are used in training by the military. [Bill Gertz, "Pakistan Deploys Chinese Missiles," Washington Times, 12 June 1996, pp. A1, A14.] 7/3/95: US intelligence officials said that by November 1992, China had exported over 30 complete M-11 MRBMs to Pakistan; this view is contrary to earlier reports that only missile components had been sent. The officials say storage crates at Pakistan's Sargodha air force base west of Lahore contain the M-11 missiles. Since obtaining the M-11s, Pakistan has built storage sheds, mobile launchers, and related maintenance facilities and housing. ---------------- With the aid of Chinese experts, Pakistan has also been conducting practice launches. ----------------- [R. Jeffrey Smith and David B. Ottaway, Washington Post, 3 July 1995, p. 1; The Risk Report, October 1995, pp. 3-8.] Mid-9/94: According to US officials, Chinese technicians checked M-11 missile components for serviceability, and trained Pakistani soldiers in the missile's use at a facility under construction near Sargodha. US State Department spokesman Michael McCurry stated, "It's our understanding that some Chinese engineers and technicians did go to Pakistan. Their purpose is not entirely known to us." US intelligence agencies have "strong evidence" that M-11 missiles are being sequestered at a number of military bases in Pakistan. The CIA stated in a secret report that Pakistan paid $15 million to the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC), the producer of the M-11. According to Admiral Richard Macke, the commander of the US Pacific Command, the M-11s have not yet been "operationalized." Macke added that US-PRC military contacts will be conditioned on China not assisting Pakistan to "make their M-11's operational." [Bill Gertz, Washington Times, 4 October 1994, p. A8; Barbara Starr, Jane's Defence Weekly, 15 October 1994, p. 6.] 9/94: For the first time, Pakistan conceded that it purchased M-11 missiles from China. Pakistan Embassy political counselor Zamir Akram said in Washington, DC that his country had made no secret of the purchases. Pakistan stated that sanctions should not be levied due to the purchase because the range of the M-11 missile falls below the required 300 km minimum range set by the MTCR. Other Pakistani officials continue to deny that Pakistan has made the purchase. [R. Jeffrey Smith and Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post, 8 September 1994, p. A32; Asian Age, 9 September 1994; in International Security Digest, September 1994, p. 94.] 9/94: It was reported that a leaked US intelligence report said that Chinese technicians will soon travel to Pakistan to assist in activating the Chinese-supplied M-11 missiles. US officials claim that the Chinese missile technicians are due to arrive at Sargodha, Pakistan to train the Pakistan military in using the M-11. Another Chinese team will unpack and assemble the missiles after completion of the Sargodha missile facility. [Wall Street Journal, 14 September 1994, p. A18; Washington Times, 7 September 1994, p. A1, A18.]

To: Shivram Hala who wrote (8572)	10/19/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Maybe you are too stupid to realize it... but you just called yourself a "dicklesshead"! Hmph... bwahahahahahahahahaha! You don't get the joke? Oh, never mind! <g> Bwahahahahahahaha!

To: Shivram Hala who wrote (8572)	10/19/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

This is from the report you provided. Look under 06/11/98, i.e. almost a month after India's nuclear tests... In more general terms, Dr. Oehler explained that the Clinton Administration did not impose the most severe, Category I sanctions after the 34 M-11s were transferred in 1992 in order to maintain as much "negotiating flexibility" as possible so as not to imperil the Sino-US bilateral relationship with such a strong penalty. In Oehler's words, "Because of their interest in wanting to preserve their negotiating flexibility in my view, there was going to be little likelihood that the evidence would ever be high enough to do that [impose Category I sanctions]." Dr. Oehler continued that the White House and the State Department argued that the intelligence evidence of complete M-11 transfers was "insufficient" to trigger the imposition of Category I sanctions, mainly because the missiles were still in crates. He said "Because of the impact of the sanctions, they needed to set the level of evidence very high."