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Iran to use high-tech German crane for its missile program A German company has sold a high-technology crane to Iran that will be used in Teheran's missile development program, according to Germany's Der Spiegel. The Baden-Wuerttemberg firm Liebherr sold the specialized mobile crane. The crane, identified as model LTM 1100-5.1, has a load- bearing capacity of 100 metric tons and a lifting height of 72 meters, placing it among the most advanced in the world. An Iranian company, Mizan, purchased one of the cranes last year for 600,000 Euros and it was loaded for export in Hamburg on April 7, headed for Teheran aboard the Bahamian flagged freighter, Haul Africa. German authorities later found that the crane was probably intended for use in Iran's Shahab missile program. Despite appeals to halt the shipment, the crane reached Teheran, the report said. The effort is considered one of the failures of the Proliferation Security Initiative. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
