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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (9527)	9/20/2006 2:01:37 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218627

i believe china also did not approve of the iraqi adventure, and the french, out of thankless friendship, advised against the same, but it was done, hamoon, so why not again in sudan And who was doing business with Saddam's regime? -China controls roughly 5.8 percent of Iraq's annual imports.[27] -China National Oil Company, partnered with China North Industries Corp., negotiated a 22-year-long deal for future oil exploration in the Al Ahdab field in southern Iraq.[28] -In recent years, the Chinese Aero-Technology Import–Export Company (CATIC) has been contracted to sell "meteorological satellite" and "surface observation" equipment to Iraq. The U.N. oil-for-food program approved this contract.[29] -CATIC also won approval from the U.N. in July 2000 to sell $2 million worth of fiber optic cables. This and similar contracts approved were disguised as telecommunications gear. These cables can be used for secure data and communications links between national command and control centers and long-range search radar, targeting radar, and missile-launch units, according to U.S. officials. In addition, China National Electric Wire & Cable and China National Technical Import Telecommunications Equipment Company are believed to have sold Iraq $6 million and $15.5 million worth of communications equipment and other unspecified supplies, respectively.[30] -According to a report from SIPRI, from 1981 to 2001, China was the second largest supplier of weapons and arms to Iraq, supplying over 18 percent of Iraq's weapons imports.[31] heritage.org Now oil is one thing Tobaja, but China was the second largest seller of the weapons that Saddam utilized to repress his own people as well as to intimidate his neighbors. All of this would have been more politically palatable were Saddam's regime actually founded in some basis of legitimacy. i am still waiting for the concluding decision on tibet. As are the Tibetans themselves. Hawk