Saturday, May 2, 2009

Rocket Man

"Man charged in rocket technology plot" by Associated Press | April 30, 2009

MIAMI - A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted yesterday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.

But... South Korea is a U.S. ally. Something wrong here. I smell a set-up.

Investigators also found thousands of e-mails allegedly sent by Juwhan Yun, a naturalized US citizen from Short Hills, N.J., involving other deals for sophisticated radar and air defense systems, short-wave infrared cameras, laser-guided bomb components, and missile launch devices.

Yun, 68, is quoted in one e-mail as boasting that he has been "the largest one-stop supplier" of sensitive military and similar equipment for South Korea for the past 30 years. Yun was arrested April 15 at the Fort Lauderdale airport after meeting with a former arms trafficker who was working as an informant for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Defense Department investigators....

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Just like with all the 'terrorists" an informant right in the middle of it all.

For all we know, the government was helping him move the stuff.