Chinese Missiles and Iraq

Totally global guerrillas. Robert Young Pelton looks at the potential role that Chinese surface to air missiles, built by a company that will sell to anyone, might be playing in Iraq.

The state-owned (part of the "Great Wall Industry Corporation) group Xinshidai Group ("New Era") manufactures the Vanguard and has been sanctioned by the U.S. in September 2004 for proliferation of missile technology. A year later in October of 2005 the Xinshidai Group was accused of illegally exporting Chinese missiles to the United States through organized crime groups.