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To: lorne who wrote (707)	12/18/2002 5:36:38 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

I wonder if this will put to bed the specious argument that the US supplied Iraq with it's chemical weapons.. I was walking around the White House the other day and spent about 15 minutes debating the "Women for Peace" activists (all 5 of them)... And one of them asked me "who do you think gave Saddam all of these chemical weapons?"... I responded pretty much accordingly to the article you posted, which has been long acknowledged.. Germany provided over 50% of the materials and technology to Saddam for producing these weapons.. Hawk

To: lorne who wrote (707)	12/18/2002 11:10:39 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 15987

>>The report could prove embarrassing for the German government<< Especially in light of Schroeder's strange refusal to commit Germany to cooperation with military action against Iraq regardless of whether the UN sanctioned it.

To: lorne who wrote (707)	12/19/2002 4:55:23 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 15987

An error by Hugh Williamson of the World Tribune: The company list wasn't published by the "Tagesspiegel" but by the "taz", in two parts. Here the links to the originals: taz December 17, 2002 p. 1 Deutsche Hilfe für Bagdad (German aid for Baghdad) taz.de Fremde Hilfe für Saddam (Foreign aid for Baghdad) taz.de If anybody thinks the Iraq dossier could mean trouble for the German government then the USA should be equally worried. Here are some US companies having shipped to Iraq: Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Rockwell, Tektronix, Bechtel, International Computer Systems, Sperry, Unisys, TI Coating.

To: lorne who wrote (707)	12/20/2002 2:41:04 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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."