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To: tejek who wrote (182339)	2/9/2004 4:57:11 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

You want a link, how's this one. Spins spy novels and asks for links...LOL Al

To: tejek who wrote (182339)	2/9/2004 11:09:31 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Ted Re..This all happened under the Reagan/Bush administrations......you know on the video when you see Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam....... You know as well as I a lot of countries, including the US sold both conventional and WMD to Saddam during the period from 1980 to 1990. However, at that time the US had a working relationship with Saddam. That changed suddenly in 91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. After the 91 gulf war, when it was learned how massive Iraq's WMD program was, it was decided to make Iraq get rid of its WMD weapons as part of the truce. As you stated most of it happened during the Reagon and Bush senior administrations. However, those administrations were over in 92. Germany however, continued to sell massive amounts of WMD to Iraq, against the UN sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. The US mostly stopped. And that is Germany's big problem. They voted, along with the US and most other nations for the UN sanctions, however, Germany kept on selling WMD in secret. From Asia Times. Friedbert Pflueger, foreign policy spokesman of the main opposition Christian Democratic parties and an embittered critic of Schroeder's and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer's Iraq policy, last Thursday accused the red-green coalition government of deliberately keeping the German and world public uninformed of BND (German foreign intelligence service) evidence and assessments on the continued existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). "If we trust our [intelligence] services, and I do, then we know that there exist weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," said Pflueger, and referred to a November 13, 2002, BND briefing of members of parliament's foreign affairs committee in which relevant information was disclosed. And there is this. Over the years, well over half of the precursor materials and a majority of the tools and know-how for their conversion into weapons were sold to Iraq by German firms - both prior to and after the 1991 Gulf War. The BND has the details. In the summer of 1994, the BND conducted a major study to estimate the magnitude of the - as at that time - still undeclared and concealed Iraqi WMD arsenal, relying on sales records in its possession of post-Gulf War German, Austrian, and Swiss exports of technologies, sub-systems and strategic materials to Iraq. It concluded that these exports pointed to several specific weapons programs, ranging from ballistic missile upgrades to poison gas manufacture, which Iraq had not declared and UN inspectors were unaware of and hence, not surprisingly, had failed to discover. While the magnitude of the current (1994) Iraqi weapons program "is difficult to assess", said the BND, there is no doubt that "some of the material and equipment" has eluded discovery and certain projects "are being revived and run clandestinely". The BND absolutely though Saddam still has WMD, because they checked their exports over the yrs.