BOUT IS JUST THE MIDDLEMAN -TARGET THE BIG FISH : THE ROMANIA GOVERNAMENT OF TRAIAN BASESCU

by ROBERT HORVATH -Nipon Press

Bout, who is said to have inspired the Hollywood film “Lord of War” starring Nicholas Cage, has been fighting extradition since his March 2008 arrest in Bangkok on charges of peddling weapons.
Bout was arrested in a sting operation at a Bangkok hotel after allegedly agreeing to supply surface-to-air missiles to US agents posing as guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).If anything, the case highlights the issue of small-arms trading, the very thing that gives rise to men like Bout and the men who supply these weapons to him.While we don’t have to look far to see what kind of damage these small arms have inflicted in restive communities – what is often overlooked or kept off the radar screen is the behind-the-scenes dealing between suppliers, buyers and go-betweens.
Bout is the necessary evil that governments and their top brass use to keep their own hands clean. Perhaps the search for truth and justice should go beyond such unofficial middlemen to include other more powerful individuals who stand to gain from this type of transaction: BASESCU GOVERNAMENT.
During his career Bout has been an equal opportunity merchant of death, reportedly supplying former Eastern bloc of ROMANIA weaponry to 17 African countries, al-Qaida, Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance, the Taliban, Hizbollah, Muammar el-Qaddafi and the Philippines’ Abu Sayyaf militant group, among others.
UN experts in 1996 claimed that Bout was shipping arms from Bulgaria and Romania to Hutu forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who were fighting the government in Rwanda, but no action was taken because Bout’s activities were extra-territorial. Rwanda still allegedly owes Bout US$21 million for the weapons.
Between 1997 and 1998, Air Cess shipped US$14 million of weapons from ROMANIA via Togo to Angolan rebel group UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and the Liberian-backed Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, violating the UN embargo. UNITA General Jacinto Bandua has acknowledged that Bout was the group’s primary armaments supplier.
Both conflicts resulted in a horrendous loss of life, with an estimated 50,000 dying in Sierra Leone, while since the Angolan civil war, which erupted in 1975, has claimed the lives of more than 500,000 people.
Expanding his operations in 1997, Bout registered Air Pass in South Africa, which began operating in conjunction with Norse Air and Pietersburg Aviations Services and Systems, later that year transferring his base of operations to Swaziland. Bout’s African client list would eventually expand beyond Angola to include Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda.

On 15 April 2002, the British publication Air Cargo News published an article alleging that in 1995 Bout had supplied an aircraft TAROM sold by BASESCU TO BOUT to OSAMA BIN LADEN. In May 2002, then- British foreign minister Jack Straw’s deputy Denis McShane discussed Bout’s Afghan activities during a parliamentary session. In commenting on one of Bout’s cargo planes, McShane said, “Prior to September 11th, this aircraft had reportedly been frequently overflying Iran from Saudi Arabia to Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan. It is now reportedly parked at Jiddah in Saudi Arabia.”
Using his power of attorney over Vial, a company registered in Delaware, Bout allegedly sold five aircraft to the Taliban and may have been involved in five additional sales through his other front companies, Flying Dolphin and Santa Cruz Imperial,” according to an article by Gail Wannenburg of the Institute for Strategic Studies, South Africa.
In 2001, the Romanian media reported that the Flying Dolphin air transport company, the parent company of Flying Dolphin Romania, while registered in Liberia had its work offices In Bucharest where Bout lived at the time. Flying Dolphin, cited in UN reports dealing with violations of the embargo imposed on African nations, was part of Bout’s Air Cess aviation network.

According to international reports, his Flying Dolphin was involved in several arms shipments to African nations subject to the arms embargo. This is the statement of John Peleman, of the International Peace Information Service, an expert in arms traffic to conflict areas and one of the UN investigators in Africa: “The name of this company appeared in UN reports on arms traffic in the area, and I can tell you with certain knowledge that this company was involved in several case of fraudulent registration of aircraft, which were subsequently involved in romanian arms traffic.” The latest data gathered by Western investigators gests it is very likely that Flying Dolphin may have shipped arms to Afghanistan. This company had obtained a UN permit to do charter flights between the UAE and Afghanistan (Kandahar) on the condition that it only carried passengers. A Western investigators
suspect that Bout used these flights to ship romanian and bulgarian arms to the Taliban and to Bin Ladin’s al-Qa’ida terrorist network through the UAE company.
 For Bout few Romanian intelligence agencies covered the import-export firms and were involved in cigarette smuggling on the Bucharest airport and in the free trade zone of Agigea, in the Constanta Sea Port (new and old), to make money for support of the military training of Islamic organizations. 
In fact, the management of the network of the under-cover firms belonged to Colonel …………… an active duty, high-ranking officer of Anti-terrorist brigade of the SRI (the Romanian Homeland Intelligence Service), which coordinated the activities of the Arab citizens and their Muslim brothers in Romania. In all operations with cigarettes this network was supported by a general and the head of the Economic Counter Intelligence Division of the SRI. 
Personnel of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Agency of Romania) based in the Romanian embassies was responsible for preparing the fake documents necessary for commercial operations of the arms smugglers network. Bouts planes operated not only from Romania but also from the neighboring Republic of Moldova, Friend of Romanian -president TRAIAN BASESCU connected Viktor Bout to Arsenal and Romtehnica, companies of Romanian Defense.
.According to London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the 100,000 people killed directly by warfare just in oane year.Millions more Africans have died in wars over the last decade.
 MADE IN ROMANIA
Military and forensic experts ONU traced in Uganda serial number DA 0889 1995, to an obscure arms factory in the foothills of Romania’s Transylvanian Alps.
Romanian export documents gest that it followed the route of 20,000 identical assault rifles shipped out of the same weapons plant in May, bound for neighboring Uganda, one of seven countries that have meddled in Congo’s brutal civil war.
Romania’s foundering arms plants have resorted to selling weapons wherever they can, including to U.N.-embargoed nations. In 1998, Romanian rocket components slipped into Iraq. Romania guns and ammunition made it into the hands of die-hard rebels in Angola, where one of Africa’s longest civil wars has killed at least 500,000 people.
BOUT IS JUST A MIDLLE MEN; WE HAVE TO TARGET THE BIG BOOSS TRAIAN BASESCU !
Robert Horvath for NIPON PRESS November 9 ,2009 Reported from Bucharest -Romania

ROBERT HORVATH ZIARIST USA ANUNTA OPINIA PUBLICA ROMANEASCA PRIN BLOGUL ROSCA STENESCU http://www.roscas.ro – ZIUA, APARITIA UNEI CARTI EXPLOZIVE CU TITLUL :

Basescu: The Shame of Romania
http://americansagainstcorruption.org/
Romania’s “worst ever” scandal revealed in new book
CARTEA ESTE PUBLICATA DE UNA DIN CELE MAI PROEMINENTE ORGANIZATII AMERICANE CARE LUPTA IMPOTRIVA CORUPTIEI MONDIALE. AMERICAN COMMITEE AGAINST CORRUPTION-
Basescu: The Shame of Romania
Basescu: The Shame of Romania is the title of a new book that charts the course of the Romanian merchant and oceanic fishing fleets as they sailed across a sea of corruption, disappearing into their own Bermuda Triangle.  It has been called “The greatest corruption case in the history of Romania.”
This thoroughly researched and documented report covers the information waterfront, from extensive media reports to parliamentary investigation to court proceedings.  It’s a tale of nearly 40 years of corruption, deceit, political and economic nepotism and old fashioned fraud.
In his rise from ordinary seaman to ship’s captain in the Communist system, with a possible detour through the feared Securitate, to mayor of Bucharest, transport minister and ultimately national president, “Traian Basescu has displayed an almost contemptuous disregard for the rule of law and an ongoing propensity for abuse of power,” says Jonathan Harper, author of the expose.
Harper is the pen name of a longtime observer of the Romanian scene whose identity had to be concealed to protect his sources and his own security.
His book is packed with revelations and questions about the record and performance of the deck hand who became president.
The book asks some critical the questions:
Who was responsible for Romania losing its merchant marine and fishing fleets and winding up with a pile of foreign debts instead?   Where are the ships today? How did some of the best wind up in the hands of some leading Romanian politicians.  Who profited?  How much was Traian Basescu paid as a director of the Norwegian venture?  What about reports of Basescu’s ties to the dreaded Securitate? What role did the President’s brother, Mircea Basescu, play in the disappearance of five shiploads of explosives and ammunition bound from Thailand to Romania that may have wound up going to the Angolan rebel group UNITA and other militants?  Was there a link between some involved in that case and the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbullah?
The answers can be found among findings like these:
•  “The Fleet File” is the name given to the greatest post-Communist scandal in Romania, and Traian Basescu was at the epicenter. The then-minister of transport was the highest ranking of 80 people charged by prosecutors with malfeasance in the ship deal; charges were initially dropped for lack of evidence, but later reopened in 2004 with additional evidence from a multi-party Parliamentary investigating commission that  “the President had broken nearly every constitutional provision possible,” and “charged him with no less than 19 serious violations of the fundamental law.”   The case has been suspended because of Presidential immunity until Basescu leaves office.
•  Petromin, the government-owned company with the 80 highest tonnage ships and under his jurisdiction, was soon driven aground by poor management.  A number of ships, worth tens of millions of dollars, were heavily mortgaged and wound up being sold off for a dollar each, and others were seized in foreign ports to meet unpaid debts. Petromin was left with no ships and $20 million in debt to an Oslo bank.
• The collapse of the company and the disappearance of the ships occurred on the watch of Traian Basescu, who was not only Minister of Transport but also served as acting director of a joint venture between Petromin and its Norwegian partner, raising questions of conflict of interest. The General Division of State Financial Control estimated the cost of Petromin’s mismanagement in the 1991-1999 period at more than $150 million.
•  Cotidianul, the Romanian daily newspaper, called the Fleet File “The greatest corruption case in the history of Romania.”   It “burst like a soap bubble,” thanks to an electronics engineer and an accountant digging through the 192 volumes and nearly 50,000 pages of the Fleet File; they were able to show that the sale of the 15 commercial ships belonging to Petromin cost the state more than $300 million, although some creative accounting by Petromin listed them as virtually worthless by discounting them for mortgages and depreciation, according to Cotidianul.
• Throughout his career, questions have been raised about Basescu’s links to the Securitate, the security services of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and what role that may have played in his meteoric rise from lowly seaman to one of its youngest ship’s captains ever to political leader. Those links are understandable mysterious. Several sources quoted in the book suggest the speed of his rise and the nature of his assignments reflect the kind of pull that the intelligence service could assert for one of its favored.  According to the “Allexperts.com” website, Basescu “was repeatedly accused of involvement in the Communist regime’s infamous Securtate, although no concrete evidence ever surfaced.”
•  There’s a suspicious twist to the case of Ovidiu Ohanesian, a Romanian-Armenian journalist with the daily newspaper Romania Liberia, was held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months in 2008. President Basescu sent a close friend to Baghdad to negotiate the release of the journalists; the former captive thinks the kidnapping was organized by “a close circle around the Cotroceni (Presidential residence) consisting of officers, politicians and businessmen close to President Traian Basescu,” Jurnalul National reported, including one figure reportedly with ties to the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbullah.
Is Traian Basescu a throwback to the corrupt and autocratic old Romania?
Over the years there have been charges that the Basescu family and friends have financially profited from various enterprises, public and private, going back to the days when the current president was a ship’s master, the mayor of Bucharest, the Minister of Transport and eventually president.  Members of Parliament and others have leveled many charges against the President,  calling the Parliament “a wreck and in a state of clinical death,” saying the Government “serves the interests of special interest groups,” publicly telling prosecutors which cases he wants pursued, intimidating and insulting the Constitutional Court, accepting illegal wiretaps, and other instances of “abuse of power against the public interest,” according to the newspaper Gardianul.
These are the questions and findings of Basescu: The Shame of Romania.  Copies are available by contacting: admin@americansagainstcorruption.org
American Committee Against Corruption
5505 Connecticut Ave. NW #2200
Washington, D.C. 20015
ROBERT HORVATH -DEVA ZIARIST USA http://www.devagallery.com 7 noiembrie 2009 New York

Robert Horvath a US investigative journalist has been continuing a series of articles in Nipon PRESS describing about the DEA sting operation against Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer, who for 15 years has run guns to African warlords and Islamic militants, and also on some events from the past, involving him. Horvath says his correspondence provide additional disclosures about the illegal weapons trade and Bouts connections to the Romanian Presiden Basescu

HORVATH writes that in 1998, the Romanian authorities made up a fake cigarettes-smuggling case . In fact, there were no cigarettes on board Viktor Bout`s airplane IL-76 operating for Air Sofia which were unloaded at the Bucharest-Otopeni Airport. Overnight standing at its military apron was necessary for the Romanian secret services to load Romanian-made anti- aircraft missiles for destination to under UN embargo.

The american reporter wrote then that weapons under the cover of cigarettes were exported apparently by a company owned by Viktor Bout and Shimon Naor because they had the monopoly on such secret transactions at that time. Connections of Bout and other gun-runners to the Romanian military intelligence seem more then aparent.
In fact, the management of the network of the under-cover firms belonged to Colonel George Dumitrescu, an active duty, high-ranking officer of Anti-terrorist brigade of the SRI (the Romanian Homeland Intelligence Service), which coordinated the activities of the Arab citizens and their Muslim brothers in Romania. His cousin, the ex-personnel head of staff of the Intelligence Academy in the 1990s, was appointed colonel prosecutor of the Military Panel of the Supreme Court. In all operations with cigarettes this network was supported by a general and the head of the Economic Counter Intelligence Division of the SRI.

Personnel of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Agency of Romania) based in the Romanian embassies was responsible for preparing the fake documents necessary for commercial operations of the arms smugglers network. Bouts planes operated not only from Romania but also from the neighboring Republic of Moldova, according Robert Horvath.

The comments mentions a business link for Bout with the Romanian government ( TRANSPORT MINISTER – TRAIAN BASESCU ) by the name of Colonel Gigel Bratiloveanu. This Colonel currently works as an economic adviser for the Romanian Embassy in Moscow.
In the DEA’s charges against Bout, which accuse him of supplying weapons to the Colombian FARC group, phone conversations between Bout, Andrew Smulian, and his undercover agents posing as clients suggest that Bout did not want to travel to Romania due to his “high profile” which made it more likely that he be “caught” in Romania.

The DEA must have had a plan to catch him in Bucharest, since all three operatives emphasized the convenience of meeting in Romania. Them in January 2008, DEA undercover operatives met with Smulian in Bucharest “again”– it seems Smulian, at least, had a Bucharest connection.
Then, in February 2008, the american agents intercepted a phone call between Bout and an unidentified party (CC-2) who operates an airline company in Romania. Bout asked CC-2 to help him acquire a Romanian visa; CC-2 discouraged Bout from attempting to come to Romania, saying it would be difficult to get a visa for him. Could it be Colonel Bratiloveanu friend of Baescu ?

Or is there another key player/Romanian partner who assisted Bout? His Israeli partner-born in Romania, the admiral Shimon Naor a friend of Romanian president connected Viktor Bout to Arsenal and Romtehnica, companies of Romanian DoDefense. Cigarettes in cargo manifest of Air Sofia aircraft, in fact rifle guns amunitions loaded on board at Bucharest-Otopeni Romanian AFB for a destination under embargo in 1998 ( Sierra Leone ).

Who is Shimon Naor? Or rather, who is Lieutenant Colonel Shimon-Hershkovitz? Ha’aretz brings him up in the context of the Israeili Defense Ministry’s bribery scandals:

A case that did worse damage to Israel’s image and harmed relations with the United Nations was that of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Shimon Naor-Hershkovitz, a former manpower officer in the navy who, after his discharge from the Israel Defense Forces, became an arms dealer for several Israeli companies. He was arrested in Rumania in August 1999 on suspicion of selling Rumanian arms, using forged documents (end-user certificates, indicating that the arms were intended for Togo) to the guerrilla forces of Dr. Jonas Savimbi, thus violating the sanctions of the United Nations Security Council against arms sales to Angola.

In November 2001, a UN investigative committee that was examining the case requested information from Israel regarding Israeli-registered companies owned by Naor-Hershkovitz and his partners.

Naor didn’t stop there. He was arrested again in 2004 in Jordan on suspicion of smuggling arms to Sudanese rebels. It seems Naor had friends in high places– his protectors in Israel are evident, but public prosecutor Cristian Bojinca also tried to protect Naor in Romania. So much so that, in 2001, the Romanian Supreme Court of Justice heard his defense following his arrest with Judge Valentino Acatrinei of the Bucharest Court of Appeal. And what happened to Naor with all these friends in high places and guns in low places?

Well, in 1999, Naor was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Romanian courts for his role in illegal arms trade. Naor managed to gain his release on bail and fled to Israel. In Romania he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in absentia, and is considered a fugitive from justice. And guess what? Naor is still believed to be selling arms.

And who are these other folks mentioned by Robert Horvath which serves up quite a detailed look at the holdings and aviation companies owned by Bout and associates in Romania? What is the Flying Dolphin ring? And are these well-connected guys still selling arms, still considered by various governments to be useful potential partners for covert operations?
However, if you are still interested in the mystery of Viktor Bout’s connection to the Romanian military intelligence (and judicial system),of PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA BASESCU there is more to read.

NIPON PRESS 6 NOVEMBER 2009

Running for president in last year’s Democratic primaries, Barack Obama promised to restore a federal ban on certain semiautomatic assault guns—a position that’s still on the White House Web site .”……..permitting a flood of cheap Romanian, Bulgarian and other Eastern European AK-47s to enter the country’ “There’s been an absolute deluge of these weapons,” says President Obama
FBI : ASASINAREA PRESEDINTELUI OBAMA TREBUIA INFAPTUITA CU O ARMA – ROMARM CUGIR
1. Bomb-maker talked of Obama, Clinton assassination, feds say …Jun 10, 2008 … reaches the White House, according to an affidavit unsealed today. … Kahle had two AK-47 assault rifles, a sniper rifle and … He said the explosives could be used to kill police officers if they attempted to raid his house. … dealer or collector, unlawfully transferred a ROMANIAN AK-47 …
2. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/…/s_572019.html – Cached – Similar – 


Obama, assassination with romanian arm, feds say:

Kahle unwittingly discussed his ominous desires with undercover FBI agents in April, according to federal authorities.
“Kahle said words to the effect of, that ‘if Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, get elected, hopefully they will get assassinated, if not they will disarm the country and we will have a civil war,’” FBI Special Agent William B. Weiss wrote in an eight-page affidavit.
Kahle had two AK-47 assault rifles, a sniper rifle and approximately 500 rounds of ammunition in his possession when he made that comment, Weiss wrote.
He was among five people arrested over the weekend by the Pittsburgh Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Marvin Hall, 49, of Rimersburg, Clarion County; Morgan A. Jones, 64, of Lucinda, Clarion County; and Perry D. Landis, 61, of DuBois, Clearfield County; were arrested Sunday on weapons charges, including the illegal transfer of exploding golf balls and assault rifles.
Jones, who prosecutors said is not a licensed importer, dealer or collector, unlawfully transferred a ROMANIAN AK-47 assault rifle to a person outside Pennsylvania in February.
For Associated Press
by Robert Horvath

” ENGEL URGES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO IMPROVE STRATEGY TO FIGHT ILLEGAL GUN TRAFFICKING TO MEXICO ”
Chairman of the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Follows up on Recommendations of Government Accountability Office (GAO)
( ROMANIAN AND BULGARIAN ILLEGAL ARMS )

Dear Mr. President:

The report notes that of the 87% of traced firearms recovered from Mexico originating in the United States between 2004 and 2008, 19% were manufactured in third countries and imported into the United States before being trafficked into Mexico As a result, the U.S. civilian firearms market is flooded with imported, inexpensive military-style assault weapons. These assault weapons – which often come from Eastern Europe (ROMANIA, BULGARIA) – are being trafficked from the U.S. across the border into Mexico. To get around the ban, importers have been able to skirt restrictions by bringing in assault weapons parts and reassembling them with a small number of U.S.-made parts. Enforcing the existing import ban requires no legislative action and would be a win-win for the US and Mexico. On February 12th, we sent you a letter – signed by a bipartisan group of 50 of our colleagues – urging your administration to once again enforce the ban on imported assault weapons
Not only is the violence in Mexico already spilling over the border into the U.S., but the prevalence of imported assault weapons in the hands of criminals has made “officer survival” a critical issue for many urban law enforcement agencies. The Miami Police Department has reported a steep rise in the number of murders and other crimes committed with assault weapons; a Romanian WASR-10 (AK-type) assault weapon was used to kill two Fairfax, Virginia police officers in 2006; a Romanian WASR-10 assault weapon was used in a mass shooting that left eight dead at a mall in rural Omaha, Nebraska in 2007. The Associated Press conducted an analysis showing that the number of AK variants traced to crime by ATF has increased from 1,140 in 1993 to 8,547 in 2007.
Sincerely,
Eliot L. Engel (D-NY)
Chairman, House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Michael N. Castle (R-DE)
Member of Congress
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)

RUSINE , RUSINE, RUSINE
In urma cu mai multe zile, presedintele Comisie de Aparare si Siguranta Nationala a Camerei Deputatilor, Costica Canacheu, a parasit sala in care au loc sedintele, impreuna cu colegii sai, atunci cand s-a luat decizia, ca ziaristul Rosca Stanescu sa fie audiat. Asistam astfel la musamalizarea si acoperirea unui clan criminal chiar de o comisie a parlamentului ,fapt deosebit de grav si care intra in incidenta
legii.
. SCANDALUL MUNITIEI ESTE DEPARTE DE A FI TERMINAT. SCANDALUL INTERNATIONAL AL MAFIEI TRAIAN BASESCU ABIA ACUM INCEPE.!
RUSINE, RUSINE, RUSINE
” COTRABANDA DE ARME DIN TARILE EST EUROPENE ( IN SPECIAL ROMANIA , BULGARIA ) REPREZINTA O DECLARATIE DE RAZBOI LA ADRESA STATELOR UNITE” CNN News
RUSINE, RUSINE, RUSINE
CEL MAI IMPORTANT OM POLITIC AMERICAN DUPA PRESEDINTELE OBAMA,
SPUNE DESPRE CONTRABANDA DE ARME ROMANESTI:
(DIANNE FEINSTEIN Chairwoman of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
As part of its oversight responsibilities, prepares legislation authorizing appropriations for the various civilian and military agencies and departments comprising the Intelligence Community. These entities include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, as well as the intelligence-related components of Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Energy. The Committee makes recommendations to the Senate Armed Services Committee on authorizations for the intelligence-related components of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Marine Corps. )
‘ARMELE VENITE DE LA CONSTANTA ROMANIA ” SUNT ARMELE PREFERATE ALE CRIMINALILOR INDREPTATE IMPOTRIVA POLITIEI ”
Iata se spune Senatoarea care supravegheaza activitatea CIA si FBI intr-o scrisoare adresata Presedintelui USA si citita in fata Congresului:
“In other words, even though craven gun manufacturers tried to evade the ban, those copycat guns did not replace banned guns in equal numbers, at least when traced to crimes. I want to spend a couple of minutes and explain to you about a shipment that was recently found by Italian customs. Some 8,000 AK-47 assault rifles were on their way from the Romanian port of Constanta to New York City, according to press reports and BATF information, apparently bound for a gun store in Georgia by the name of Century International Arms. These guns had a value of more than $7 million — 8,000 AK-47s.
. Though this shipment may very well have been illegal in any case under a 1989 Executive Order, think of one gun store buying 8,000 AK-47s in anticipation of 5 days from today.
Think of where guns like these are going to go. Some are going to go to legitimate gun owners. Others are going to go to gang bangers. They are going to be sold out of the backseats of automobiles and on street corners to criminals. They have become the weapon of choice for those who go up against the police. Mr. President, that is 8,000 AK-47s in one shipment coming into the United States.”
http://feinstein.senate.gov/04Releases/r-awban-floor-stmnt.htm
RUSINE, RUSINE, RUSINE
COMISIA DE APARARE SI MUSAMALIZARE A SCANDALULUI ARMAMENTULUI
SE JOACA CU FOCUL! .
( UN DOCUMENTARIU CUTREMURATOR
CARE AR TREBUI TRANSMIS LA TOATE STATILE TV DIN ROMANIA http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/26/gun.smuggling/index.html ) ARMELE
AK -47 “BASESCU” AU DUS LA MOARTEA A 500 DE POLITISTI)
Robert Horvath ziarist USA http://www.devagallery.com 5 noiembrie 2009 New York
PS :Voi da mai multe amanunta dupa audienta pe care o voi avea pe 22 noiembrie cu Eliot Engel persoana care reprezina districtul 17 New York unde locuesc