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To: Ilaine who wrote (30571)	4/1/2003 2:00:40 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

and did not buy it from the US. Very proud of it. Sounds about right, who needs Americans when you have the combined technical resources of England, Spain, Holland and Switzerland helping your country launch nuclear weapons into space? Payloads of 1000 kgs not a problem. fas.org It still amazes me it was allowed to go that far. An excerpt.. The high-ranking Iraqi defector Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majeed said Iraq was working on a space weapon launched from the supergun. "It was meant for long-range attack and also to blind spy satellites. Our scientists were seriously working on that. It was designed to explode a shell in space that would have sprayed a sticky material on the satellite and blinded it." He also said the supergun could have delivered a nuclear device. Following the Gulf War UN teams destroyed one 350 mm. supergun, components of a 1000 mm. supergun, and supergun propellant.

To: Ilaine who wrote (30571)	4/1/2003 2:46:32 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Respond to of 74559

CB - from your past posts, I know you check. For one: $1 million in the Middle East can by any state what he dreams of. Next: for what concerns sensible material, once delivered to ANY contry, no one knows who the final destination is. IMHO, Iraqis have WMDs, well conceiled or safely stored in other countries. As to whom delivered the goods, the question should be, who has the technology? Lastly, throughout the nineties, the US has been very cautious on trades with Iraq. Third countries made the deals, but where did the financing came from? I guess we could argue endlessly without convincing arguments as these type of trades usually are classified. Whereas the SIPRI The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project reports on international flows of conventional* weapons.* projects.sipri.se Hence "open trade".