17 November 07 - 18:04US to allow Syria to get Hightech UN Equiptment ?

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Three U.S. Agencies Reviewing Decision to Export High-Tech Support to Syria

Last Edited: Saturday, 17 Nov 2007, 3:43 PM MST
Created: Saturday, 17 Nov 2007, 2:13 PM MST
By George Russell
Officials from three U.S. agencies are now reviewing their records over the past three years to see if permission should have been granted for a major American computer company to ship "sensitive" technology to Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism.
The gap between the Bush Administration’s anti-Syrian rhetoric and reality emerges in the book-keeping of the $5.2 billion United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship development agency, which has come under heavy fire for its improper funneling of cash to the regime of North Korean dictator and nuclear proliferator Kim Jong Il.
This time the issue is UNDP’s ties — and those of the U.S. and the European Union — to the Baathist regime of Syrian President Bashir Assad, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. for its sponsorship of international terrorism, destabilization of Lebanon and its shipping of terrorists and weapons to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. No comments No trackbacks

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