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Venezuela could trigger regional arms race: US intel chief




AFP
WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 02 28 06

US intelligence chief Michael McConnell said on Tuesday that Venezuela's weapons purchases could spark an arms race in the region.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's moves to buy modern military equipment from Russia and to develop domestic weapons production "are increasingly worrisome to his neighbors," the director of national intelligence told a congressional panel.

"These weapons purchases could fuel an arms race in the region," McConnell said at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

He also accused the Venezuelan leader of trying to "politicize" the country's armed forces at a time when other states in the region were seeking "more professional and apolitical militaries."

AFP 27 1604 GMT 02 07

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