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US Freezes Sale Of F-14 Fighter Parts To Iran (RTTNews) - The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a freeze in sales of all spare parts from its recently retired F-14 fighter jet fleet, even as lawmakers pledged tougher legislations to eliminate all Pentagon sales of F-14 parts to stop buyers for Iran and other countries from acquiring sensitive spare parts. The Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency said it halted sales of certain sensitive F-14 parts in February 2006 but the ban now covered all F-14 parts until the government completed a comprehensive review of what to do with them. Sales of F-14 parts were suspended pending a comprehensive review, said Defense Logistics Agency spokesman Jack Hooper said. "It was the prudent thing to do," he said. The Pentagon's move followed a report on an investigation by The Associated Press this month on the F-14 surplus sales plans found middlemen for Iran, China and other countries had exploited loopholes in sales security to acquire sensitive military equipment. The purchases included parts for the F-14 and other aircraft and missile components. Law enforcement officials say that in at least one case the contraband made it to Iran. "The Pentagon's decision to suspend sales of surplus F-14 parts is welcome news," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who had requested a Senate inquiry into surplus security following the AP report. "In this era of instability, we can hardly afford to be sloppy about something as sensitive as our national security." The Pentagon had already intended to destroy at least 10,000 parts it considers unique to the Tomcat and was reviewing what to do with 23,000 parts that could be used for other aircraft. It had planned to sell about 60 percent of the roughly 76,000 parts for the F-14, considering them general aircraft hardware it was safe to sell without restrictions, but even those sales would be frozen for now.. The Pentagon says it has followed all procedures in selling its surplus, including those instances where equipment was acquired by buyers for Iran and China. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
