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To: lorne who wrote (707)	12/20/2002 2:41:04 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Recent BBC report sheds more light on the Taz article about Iraq's suppliers. Some of them were undoubtedly "pre-Embargo" as the reports go back as early as the 70s. China, Germany and Russia, however, continued to supply well into the Embargo period: news.bbc.co.uk "Two other Russian companies, Mars Rotor and Niikhism sold parts for long-distance missiles to Iraq. These were transported to Baghdad by a Palestinian middleman in July 1995, the paper reports. The Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co broke the embargo in 2000 and 2001 by supplying hi-tech fibreglass parts for air defence installations, according to Taz. The paper suggests that contracts signed between Huawei Technologies Co and the US firms IBM and AT&T may mean that US know-how could have found its way into Iraqi technology. The latest revelations come after a Taz article earlier in the week, which said that more than 80 German companies were listed in the Iraqi declaration - several of which were still involved in Iraq last year."

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