| Friday, March 7, 2003 |
11:56 - Watching the Worms Squirm
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/007997.php#007997
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Well, well. If this turns out to be true, someone ought to offer Den Beste a position as a White House advisor.
A French company has been selling spare parts to Iraq for its fighter jets and military helicopters during the past several months, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
The unidentified company sold the parts to a trading company in the United Arab Emirates, which then shipped the parts through a third country into Iraq by truck.
The spare parts included goods for Iraq's French-made Mirage F-1 jets and Gazelle attack helicopters. . . .
Granted, it's possible (I suppose) that the French company might not even have known it was selling to Iraq-- maybe it only thought it was dealing with the Al Tamoor Trading Company, and never suspected the parts were headed illicitly for Iraq. Maybe this is all just a big misunderstanding.
But somehow I'm inclined to call Occam's Razor, at least on the data we have so far.
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