German prosecutors said on Tuesday they had filed charges against two German businessmen they accused of trying to deliver missile components to Iraq.
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!.....
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the western town of Bielefeld said the men had admitted trying to sell the missile parts to Iraq in breach of a United Nations embargo and German export regulations. The office has filed charges against the men, who have not been named, with the district court in the city of Muenster, the spokesman told Reuters. State prosecutor Eckhard Baade told German ARD television that one of the accused had admitted that he and a business partner met three Iraqi generals in Baghdad last December where they received a list of required electronic components.
Three months ago
The two accused had planned to get some of the components produced in Germany and to deliver them to Iraq, ARD said in a statement. One of the men had admitted that a blueprint confiscated by police had been the design of a missile guidance system, ARD said, citing Baade.
Ooops!
The case follows the conviction in January of a German businessman who was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for exporting weapons material to Iraq in 1999.
See a pattern here? Wonder what else we'll find after we start digging?
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