29-03-2013, 12:48 AM
I'll check those emails. Just found this from NYT of March 2 re Yemeni activities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world/...=all&_r=1&
Seized Chinese Weapons Raise Concerns on Iran
By ROBERT F. WORTH and C. J. CHIVERS
Published: March 2, 2013
An Iranian dhow seized off the Yemeni coast was carrying sophisticated Chinese antiaircraft missiles, a development that could signal an escalation of Iran's support to its Middle Eastern proxies, alarming other countries in the region and renewing a diplomatic challenge to the United States.
Phil's footnote: the three superpowers continue to contend in the "neutral" quadrilateral of Blair-Orwell's 1984. Arms, oil, drugs with a religious bass note and a bouquet of intrigue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world/...=all&_r=1&
Seized Chinese Weapons Raise Concerns on Iran
By ROBERT F. WORTH and C. J. CHIVERS
Published: March 2, 2013
An Iranian dhow seized off the Yemeni coast was carrying sophisticated Chinese antiaircraft missiles, a development that could signal an escalation of Iran's support to its Middle Eastern proxies, alarming other countries in the region and renewing a diplomatic challenge to the United States.
Phil's footnote: the three superpowers continue to contend in the "neutral" quadrilateral of Blair-Orwell's 1984. Arms, oil, drugs with a religious bass note and a bouquet of intrigue.