Tom Warner: Iran and China linked to Ukraine missiles

8E625356-756A-11D9-9608-00000E2511C8 From the Financial Times:

An investigation by the Ukrainian secret police has found that and China bought long-range designed to carry nuclear warheads from , one of the country’s politicians said on Wednesday.

Grigory Omelchenko, an ally of the country’s new leadership and a former head of the anti-mafia committee in the Ukrainian parliament, claimed on Wednesday that Ukraine’s SBU secret police had found that 12 Kh-55s were illegally exported in 1999-2001. He said six of the air-to-ground cruise missiles were sold to Iran, and six to China.

February 2, 2005 10:15 PM
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