Two Iranian-born British men are accused of being part of a network supplying components for the roadside bombs which are killing coalition soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of them is Jewish.
The network, uncovered by American investigators, is alleged to have illegally shipped more than 30,000 electronic components from the United States to Iran via other countries. The components are said to be identical to those used in some of the hidden bombs which have killed 2,000 coalition soldiers, including more than 200 British servicemen.
One of the accused is is a Jewish 39-year-old whose family was given refuge in Britain after the 1979 Iranian revolution. He was arrested in his mother’s north London home two weeks ago.
His fellow accused, Ali Akbar Yahya, a 48-year-old businessman, disappeared from his flat in Dubai last month and neighbors say they know nothing of his whereabouts.
Both men are named in a 45-page United States grand jury indictment which draws on a three-year investigation into the smuggling of dual-use components.
The Jewish suspect’s friends and family described the allegations as “preposterous.” Karen Todner, his lawyer, said: “This man is no terrorist. As a devout Jew he is horrified he has been linked with Islamic terror in Iraq or Afghanistan. He categorically denies these charges.”
The indictment claims that eight men and eight related companies were part of a conspiracy to “illegally enrich” themselves by “unlawfully exporting electronic components and other commodities from the United States to Iran.”
The goods included 89 computer chips, 200 Ericsson DC/DC converters and 3,400 low-pass filters. All these goods have peaceful uses, but their export is strictly controlled because they can also be essential components of bombs.
Major Chris Hunter, a senior Ministry of Defence bomb analyst until last year, said: “This reads like a checklist of what you need to produce a radio-controlled IED, especially those armed with an EFP [explosively formed penetrator] – definitely the most lethal weapon the British Army has ever faced.”
(Source: Times Online UK)
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Just like the 9/11 terrorists who learned to fly commercial airliners in US flight schools, here to the Afgani terrorists are using American made componenets to blow up American soldiers.
The Arab terrorists never fail to make a mockery of the US.