-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- From: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith_news/20000316_xnsof_arab_weapo.shtml Arab Weapon Sale Raises Security Questions China-Gate Figure Had Details of Kuwait Howitzer Sale By Charles Smith © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com The Clinton administration approved the sale of advanced F-16 Falcons to the United Arab Emirates. According to Lockheed/Martin officials, the F-16s purchased by the UAE are superior to those flown by the U.S. Air Force. The UAE contract is worth up to $6.4 billion and includes 55 single seat and 25 two seat versions of the Block 60 F-16. The F-16 fighters for the UAE are designed to counter Russian made SA-10 and SA-12 surface-to-air missiles now being offered to Middle-East customers. U.S. Air Force and Navy officials admit that the Falcons sold to the UAE are more advanced than any aircraft currently operated by American armed forces. Deliveries of the advanced strike aircraft to the UAE are scheduled to begin in 2004. However, the sale of advanced weapons to the Middle East has raised more than the usual questions of national security. Clinton administration officials are again under fire for breaches of U.S. national security, this time concerning American allies in the Middle East. According to documents discovered at the U.S. Commerce Department, convicted China-Gate figure John Huang possessed detailed information about Chinese and American weapons sales to the Middle East. The documents were obtained from the Commerce Department using the Freedom of Information Act. Huang, a former Clinton appointee at the U.S. Commerce Department, reportedly cited his right to not incriminate himself nearly two thousand times when asked if he was acting as an agent for the Chinese Army. According to the Commerce Department documents, in 1995, Kuwait allocated $1.3 billion to upgrade its field artillery. Included in this new program was an intense competition between U.S. based United Defense and Chinese arms maker China North Industries, or Norinco, to win the contract. "Heavy pressure from Chinese Government to select Norinco. The Chinese offer is of particular concern in that its howitzer has been recently modernized and configured to NATO standards for ammunition interoperability," states the Commerce Department document. The documents also contain detailed price and negotiation information considered invaluable to the Chinese military. "China also remains the only member of the UN Security Council that has not been awarded a large military contract from Kuwait. It is understood that the Chinese are pressing this issue with the Kuwait Government," notes the Commerce document. According to United Defense officials, Kuwait selected the American made M109A6 Paladin. The M109A6 Paladin is the latest in 155mm self-propelled artillery, including advanced onboard electronics for navigation and fire control. The tank like mobile howitzer has both a Kevlar-lined chassis and a pressurized crew compartment to guard against ballistic, nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. The American firm that won the artillery contract also noted that the Kuwait government has not approved the money for the purchase. "The project is still in limbo. The money just has not been released," said a United Defense director for international marketing. "We did not know that John Huang was involved," stated the United Defense director. The information that Chinese weapons were upgraded to NATO standards raises further questions from the past. According to one intelligence source, Dr. Gerald Vincent Bull assisted the Chinese in the NATO artillery upgrade. Dr. Bull, considered a rouge scientist, also worked with Iraq to develop a super-gun capable of striking Israel. The Iraqi super-gun program was discovered by British intelligence and shut down prior to the Persian Gulf war. Bull was later found murdered outside his Belgian apartment. "We still don't know the full extent of Dr. Bull's relationship with China," said the American intelligence official. "Norinco and Bull worked together on two projects. One was the upgraded 155 howitzer and the other was a Chinese super gun." Dr. Bull developed a "space gun" for a joint U.S./Canadian research program during the early 1960s. The projectiles fired from this gun weighed 190 pounds and traveled over 70 miles up into the lower reaches of space. The Norinco super-gun developed with Bull is described as capable of striking Taiwan from the Chinese mainland. Norinco, however, is a known law enforcement problem for the Clinton administration. In 1996, Norinco and Chinese Army owned Poly Technologies Corporation were both accused of attempting to sell fully automatic machine guns to U.S. gangsters. Allegedly, Poly Tech's man in America, Robert Ma, conspired with Norinco representative, Richard Chen, to import 2,000 fully automatic AK-47s into the United States to Customs Agents posing as Miami drug smugglers. Lu Yi Lun, described in court documents as Norinco's No. 2 official, was also charged in the case. U.S. investigators say arms broker Hammond Ku, a key figure in the case, told undercover U.S. agents three times that China's government knew what was happening. According to the 100 page Federal indictment from one of the key undercover agents, Chen and Ma had difficulty in getting the "barrels" because they required "higher-level permission". The Customs officials added that the Chinese apparently believed the automatic rifles were going to U.S. street gangs. 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