Chicoms arming insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq

Inside the Ring�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:

"Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms."

Weapons from Red China also go by air to Iran for infiltration into Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran is also, of course, the principal patron of Hamas which has just consolidated its hold on Gaza by defeating Fatah in a short civil war.

Bush, like Clinton, refuses to take any action that might irritate the Chinese Communists. Commercial ties and pretended cooperation in the GWOT seem to be more important than the well-being of our and our allies' troops or the long-suffering civilian populations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

ChiCom cooperation against terror has been a one-way street anyway, putting the US on the wrong side of the Uighur separatist movement in Xinjiang. The Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic minority in China have long chafed at being a subject people of the Han-dominated Chinese empire.