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U.S. goods killing U.S. troops via UAE |
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Written by Stumo
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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This is not good.
Roadside bombings of American troops in Iraq were occurring with
unnerving regularity when military investigators made a disturbing
discovery: American-made computer circuits sold to a trading company in
the United Arab Emirates had turned up in the bomb detonators.
That finding set off a clash with Washington last year when the Bush
administration cited the diversion of the computer circuits to Iran,
and eventually Iraq, as proof that the United Arab Emirates were
failing to prevent American technology from slipping into the wrong
hands.
But you can pass a law. You know. A Law. That
stops any problem. The UAE passed A Law for more "export
controls." Good.
“[The export control] has virtually had no effect, to be honest,”
said Nasser Hashempour, deputy president of the Iranian Business
Council in Dubai. “If someone wants to move something — get it to Iran
— it is easy to be done.”
The Very. Serious. People. in DC and NYC were concerned when
objections to the purchase of a U.S. port by an Arab company were
raised. Tsk, Tsk, they said. Just economics. Just
business.
This is the reality.
But the country, which is made up of the emirates Abu Dhabi,
Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Umm al Qaywayn and Ras al Khaymah,
has deep economic and cultural ties with Iran, which is only about 70
miles across the Persian Gulf from Dubai. As many as 400,000
Iranians live in the emirates, many of them traders who track down
goods in the sprawling consumer bazaar of Dubai and then re-export them
to Iran, at times ignoring United Nations trade sanctions related to
Iran’s nuclear program and a broader United States embargo.
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