From the monthly archives: January 2010
Last week a former official of the Clark Material Handling Company (CMHC) has signed a Settlement Agreement with the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) involving the illegal export of truck spare parts to Iran. BIS alleges that the former CMHC Vice President of Global Parts Marketing, Robert Quinn, made a false [...]
An unnamed Congressional staffer says in this morning’s Politico on Iran sanctions that it is “[h]ard to imagine tough sanctions in both bills getting less tough in conference.” The staffer is referring to a new set of economic sanctions on Iran that have been making it ways through the Congress for some time now. [...]
Folks who read this site are familiar with the export control reform talisman. Seems like it has been getting a lot of use lately. Be sure to read the following piece from today’s Washington Times.
The U.S. military has been warning the Iraqi government for some time that bomb detecting equipment manufactured by a U.K. company cannot “sniff” explosives. Well, U.K. authorities have arrested company officials over the weekend for violations of, among other things, the U.K.’s Export Control Act of 2002.
ATSC, Ltd. President John McCormick made some rather [...]
In one of the more odd stories emanating from the DC beltway, an official with a group called Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) told ABC News that military rifle scopes inscribed with Bible citations allow “the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they’re being shot by Jesus rifles.” The [...]
In a bizarre but an increasingly all too common approach in the new Washington of “change,” the U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, suggested this week that the U.S. should consider using economic sanctions to force Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians. Our best ally in the region bullied, while we coddle [...]
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