The Bush Administration has decided to sell Pakistan at least 24 F-16 “Fighting Falcon” aircraft, Reuters reported on Friday. Pakistan has some 32 F-16s from a prior sale in the 1980s (right). A subsequent sale of F-16s was blocked in 1990 after President Bush unable to certify that Pakistan did not posess a nuclear explosive …
Stop Bolton
by | 2005-03-25 | No Comments
If you haven’t already, check out the Citizens for Global Solutions campaign to Stop Bolton. The website has a video of Bolton losing his shit at a 1994 conference. (download it) Bolton’s confirmation hearing is scheduled for: Thursday, April 7, 2005 Time: 9:30 AM Place: 216 Hart Senate Office Building Steve Clemons at the Washington …
More on North Korea HEU
by | 2005-03-25 | 2 Comments
Larry Niksch (right) from CRS recently published an interesting summary of the relevant intel in the Chosun Ilbo. Niksch mentions a pair of 1993 Russian intel reports that point toward a North Korean HEU program: There are also assessments from non-U.S. sources simultaneous with or earlier than those of the Clinton Administration. Of special importance …
EU Arms Embargo on China
by | 2005-03-24 | 1 Comment
Check out the Export Control Blog maintained by Scott Gearity, an export compliance consultant and owner/founder of Gearity Consulting Group. His coverage of the EU’s deliberations over the arms embargo on China has been first rate—even if I find his (and much of Washington’s) opposition to lifting the embargo kind of strange. To be precise, …
