- Re: POLAND - FRENCH MISSILES IN IRAQ
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- Have those Polish mercenaries been caught in an international
intelligence agencies intrigue ?
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- I wanted to write to you about it from the first day,
something does not make sense.
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- We saw the 4 missiles on TV.... SEVERAL TIMES ...
- about 4 ft long and about 5" wide with the date
ON THE MISSILES OF "2003".
- THEY WERE HALF-BURIED IN THE SAND.
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- What really puzzled me from the first moment:
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- Normally, the military write the date on missiles in
a very small letters
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- BUT IN THIS CASE THE SIZE OF THE NUMBERS WAS ABOUT HALF
THE DIAMETER OF THE MISSILES
- THIS IS UNHEARD OF - AS IF WHOEVER 'PRODUCED' THESE MISSILES
WANTED TO SHOW US THE DATE!!
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- I've just checked a number of articles about the missile
story on the Internet, and...
- ALL the photos of them have been REMOVED!! There was
only an empty square where
- the photo used to be. Some of the articles have been
removed, too. This is a coverup
- of unusual proportion.
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- Who put those missiles in Iraq this year ?
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- DOES SOMEONE WANT TO BLAME THE FRENCH?
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- THIS IS A CLASSICAL 'INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES' 'MISTAKE'
- WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
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- <http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAH28FVDLD.html>http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAH28FVDLD.html
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- Poland Says It Was Mistaken in Report That Troops Found
Newly-Built French Missiles in Iraq
- By Beata Pasek Associated Press Writer
- Published: Oct 4, 2003
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- WARSAW, Poland (AP) - After a protest from French President
Jacques Chirac, Poland said Saturday it had been mistaken in reporting
that its troops found new French-made anti-aircraft misiles in central
Iraq.
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- Chirac swiftly denied selling Iraq weapons in violation
of the U.N. weapons embargo against Saddam Hussein's regime. The claims,
he said, "are as false today as they were yesterday."
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- An aide to the Polish prime minister said an initial
report that the Roland missiles found by Polish troops days ago were produced
in 2003 was incorrect. France said it stopped producing any type of Roland
missile in 1993.
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- Prime Minister Leszek Miller met with Chirac twice to
explain the mistake, said the aide, Tadeusz Iwinski. The two leaders were
in Rome on Saturday for a European Union summit.
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- "There can be no 2003 missiles since these missiles
have not been made for 15 years," Chirac told reporters in Rome. "Polish
soldiers confused things. I told ... Miller so frankly - friendly but firmly."
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- "It was wrongly said that the rockets were produced
in that year," Iwinski said by telephone from the summit. "The
matter is cleared up now. President Chirac has accepted Prime Minister
Leszek Miller's explanation."
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- The Polish defense minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, "expressed
his regrets" for the mistake, a ministry statement said.
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- The report first came in a statement by a ministry spokesman
to Polish state television that the troops uncovered French-made Roland
missiles in the town of Hilla, in the zone of central Iraq where the Poles
lead a peacekeeping force. A ministry statement said the missiles were
destroyed on Wednesday.
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- Since Saddam's fall in April, U.S. troops and journalists
have seen Roland missiles at some weapons sites. France long had close
ties to Iraq that included lucrative weapons deals.
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- Paris supplied arms, in exchange for oil, during the
eight-year Iran-Iraq war. The French Foreign Ministry statement Saturday
said that Roland 1 missiles and their launchers were exported to Iraq in
1980-81, whole Roland 2 missiles were exported for three years, from 1983
to 1986. France stopped making Roland 2s in 1988 and Roland 3s in 1993,
it said.
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- The French ministry emphasized that France has not authorized
the sale of weapons, or even spare parts, to Iraq since after July 1990.
The United Nations imposed sanctions on weapons sales to Iraq after Saddam
Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
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- The Polish Defense Ministry said the Roland missiles
were among about a dozen missiles uncovered near Hilla on Tuesday, including
Soviet-made Malutka, French Hot and French-German Milan missiles. The Roland
missilesa re about 25 feet long, radar-guided and launched from the back
of a truck.
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- The U.S. military found 35 Roland missiles when it captured
Baghdad International Airport in April. Roland missiles also were found
when Australian troops captured an airfield in western Iraq.
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- The Web site GlobalSecurity.org says the Roland weapon
system is intended for anti-aircraft defense of armored and mechanized
the units to counter aircraft flying to nearly at 1 1/2 times the speed
of sound or hovering helicopters.
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- The United States stopped producing the Roland-type weapon
in 1981.
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- AP-ES-10-04-03 1236EDT
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- Commet
- From Mark C
- 10-7-3
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- Reminds me of a similar scare tactic here in Washington
state around 1978- They were talking STAR WARS (SDI) back then, and needed
to generate some "Ruskies are Bad" News for the masses to consume.
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- One day several mines washed up on the Washington Coast.
Interestingly, the local news media played this up with a straight face.
Was *I* the only one wondering, as I looked at the photo?
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- They all very visibly had "Made in the USSR"
stenciled on them!
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- Now, we all know they use the Russian Cyrillic alphabet
in that country-oh-and they don't call it the "USSR" but would
have labeled the mines as from the "CCCP"-Ruskie for "Soviet
Peoples Republic". It is amazing...they are up to their old tricks
again.
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