ABOVE: Monzer al-Kassar An article that I just noticed in the February 8 issue of The New Yorker, tells the fascinating story of a D.E.A. sting operation conducted in Spain against Monzer al-Kassar, the notorious arms dealer alleged to have…
Earlier this afternoon, the State Department issued a press release announcing a settlement it had reached with Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, Germany, and its Texas branch office, Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, LLC, for alleged violatons of the Arms Export Control…
There has never been a seriously-advocated rational reason for the U.S., unlike most other countries, to have one export agency regulating exports of weapons and a separate export agency regulating exports of dual use items. A new regulation adopted by…
On Tuesday, the website of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls announced that it had updated its “Guidelines for the Permanent Export, Temporary Export and Temporary Import of Firearms and Ammunitions.” Although DDTC did not identify or explain the changes…
ABOVE: Mamadou Tandja The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) announced today that applications for exports of defense items and services to Niger might be delayed, possibly for a really, really long time: In response to recent events in the…