Sunday, September 8, 2013

War Profiteering

Curiouser and Curiouser:  Costco must assiduously avoid letting any Iranian officials buy from Costco anywhere in the world.  So when Iranian diplomats try to stock up on yogurt in Tokyo, sorry, none for you!

And not only yogurt pushing Costco, but a small software biz got into hot water when a Canadian subsidiary sold software to a Ukrainian company that had flights into Iran.
Esterline acknowledged Aug. 30 that back in March, its Canadian subsidiary CMC Electronics sold an $8,814, one-year subscription for a navigation database to a customer called Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines.
Book 'em Danno!

But when Western warmongers want to sell poison gas and weapons of mass destruction to Syria-Iran, laissez les bon temps rouler!

In another case, an unidentified U.S. company sold potassium cyanide to a Syrian pediatric hospital in 2006, but made no effort to check whether it was used for treating patients, as the Syrians claimed, or was diverted for making chemical weapons.
According to another leaked cable, the Netherlands discussed how monoethylene glycol, used to manufacture urethane and antifreeze, was shipped by a Dutch concern to the Syrian Ministry of Industry, considered a front for the Syrian military. The Dutch outlined how the chemical could also be used as a precursor for sulfur mustard, and possibly for VX and sarin.

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