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August 20, 2006
Israel: Hezbollah's Night Vision Equipment Came from Britain
This brings up an important topic: why in God's name are we selling advanced military equipment to our enemies? The United States sells M1A1 Abrams tanks to Saudi Arabia, for example: Hezbollah night-vision gear was from Britain, Israel says...
Israeli intelligence officials have complained to Britain and the United States that sensitive night-vision equipment recovered from Hezbollah fighters during the war in Lebanon had been exported by Britain to Iran. British officials said the equipment had been intended for use in a U.N. anti-narcotics campaign.
You know, if you manage to forget about the dead Israeli soldiers who died because of this, it is almost cute to think British officials actually believed the Iranian government when it told them the night vision equipment was for drug enforcement efforts.
Israeli officials say they believe the state-of-the-art equipment, found in Hezbollah command-and-control headquarters in southern Lebanon during the just-concluded war, was part of a British government-approved shipment of 250 pieces of night-vision equipment sent to Iran in 2003.Israeli military intelligence confirmed that one of the pieces of equipment is a Thermo-vision 1000 LR tactical night-vision system, serial No. 155010, part No. 193960, manufactured by Agema, a high-tech equipment company with branches in Bedfordshire, England, and San Diego. A spokesman for Agema in San Diego denied all knowledge of the system.
The equipment, which needed special export-license approval from the British government, was passed to the Iranians through a program run and administered by the U.N. Drug Control Program. The equipment uses infrared imaging to provide nighttime surveillance that allows the user to detect people and vehicles moving in the dark at a range of several miles.
Read it all, and weep.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at August 20, 2006 10:01 AM
Comments
The West continues to fund its own destruction. The dhimmitude is astounding.
Posted by: Always On Watch ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 20, 2006 5:49 PM
In what way is Hezbollah a threat to the West? A local militia?
This is like saying that a group of ku klux klan in mississippi in the 1870s was a threat to blacks in Benin. Or that Mau Mau in the '50s was a threat to a Yorkshireman farmer in England.
By the West I of course mean white-Christian nations, of which Israel is not a part. So if they are a threat to Israel, they are not a threat to the West.
Posted by: Protestant at August 20, 2006 8:33 PM
Protestant:
You might like to consider that Japan is part of the West? And increasingly so is India. Hardly white Christian nations eh?
If you have a problem with Jews, then that's your problem. I don't, and I consider Israel to be part of the West, and a staunch ally. I suggest to you sir, that probably 95% of all readers of these pages would agree with me, not you. I speak as a Welshman, nominally a Christian, but in reality a militant agnostic.
Posted by: Sir Henry Morgan at August 21, 2006 8:37 AM
Protestant;
Yeah, a "local militia" backed by over a billion people. Don't let your Jew-hatred blind you; once they are done with Israel--or even now, come to think of it--it will be "White Christian Nations", and black Africans, and brown-skinned Hindus, and Han Chinese, and pretty much everyone else.
Posted by: Ruy Diaz at August 21, 2006 1:55 PM
Thanks for article
Posted by: libya at May 16, 2008 11:40 AM
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