From: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:14:27 +0800
To: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
Subject: Re: arms collectors...
In-Reply-To: <19980925195613.A3801@die.com>
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At 07:46 PM 9/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, David Emery wrote:
>
>> ----- Forwarded message from "Thomas B. Roach" 
<sigint@thegrid.net> -----
>> 
>> 
>> Washington Times, 25 Sep 98
>> Operable missile seized in customs
>> By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>> 
>> U.S.  and British authorities are investigating how a Russian-
design
>> Scud missile was imported illegally by a weapons collector in
>> California, The Washington Times has learned.
>> 
>> "This is a full-blown missile," said John Hensley, a senior agent 
of the
>> U.S.  Customs Service in Los Angeles.  "The only thing missing is 
the
>> warhead."
>> 
>> A Scud B missile and its mobile transporter-erector launcher --
minus the
>> warhead -- were seized Sept.  2 by customs agents in Port Hueneme,
>> Calif., about 35 miles north of Los Angeles, said officials 
familiar
>> with the case.
>> 
>
>Scuze me for picking nits, but if the missile doesn't have a
>warhead then its just a rocket (plus some guidance systems).
>
>When does a rocket become a "weapon of mass destruction"?
>
>Maybe what American officials should be investigating is how US 
defense
>contractors got an export license to sell ICBM components to the 
ChiCom's. 
>I heard it was OK'd by the pres himself -- theorectically for big
>campaign donations.
>
>If those missiles are targeted at US, then that would constitute
>blatant treason, would it not?
>
>Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>jim
>
>
>
>

I wouldn't be afraid to bet that some Republicans were in on this and 
worse. I am not a fan of either Dems or Reps but I wonder if the 
reason the sex angle is being persued first is to get Clinton and the 
Dems out without any mud splashback.

I have heard that Starr is far from finished so time will tell.

In the end though I doubt if much will change for the beltway 
bandits.

Edwin
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