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Iraqi Report Named US Business Partners
(Mohamad Bazzi, NewsDay, December 13, 2002)
Iraq's 12,000-page declaration of its weapons programs lists American companies that provided materials used by Baghdad to develop chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s . . . Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, said Tuesday that he does not intend to release the names of foreign companies that provided material to Iraq. . . . A Bush administration official declined to comment on U.S. companies' presence in the declaration, or the potential embarrassment if the list were made public. . . . A 1994 report by the Senate Banking Committee concluded that "the United States provided the government of Iraq with ‘dual-use' licensed materials which assisted in the development of Iraqi chemical, biological and missile-system programs.” . . . This assistance, according to the report, included "chemical warfare-agent precursors; chemical warfare-agent production facility plans and technical drawings; chemical warfare filling equipment; biological warfare-related materials; missile fabrication equipment and missile system guidance equipment.” . . . Wright said the release of a supplier list containing American companies would embarrass the United States. "It would bring people's attention to something that the Bush administration would rather forget about: that the United States was a supplier state to Saddam Hussein, even after it became clear that he was producing and using chemical weapons,” she said. . . . Shipments to Iraq continued even after the United States learned Hussein had used chemical weapons against Iranian troops and Kurdish villagers in northern Iraq in 1988, according to Senate investigators. . . . The U.S.-Iraqi relationship flourished from February 1986, when then-Vice President George Bush met with Iraq's ambassador to Washington, Nizar Hamdoon, and assured him that Baghdad would be permitted to receive more sophisticated U.S. technology, until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Over that four-year period, the Reagan and Bush administrations approved licenses for the export of more than $600 million worth of advanced American technology to Iraq, according to congressional reports.

(*t r u t h o u t Editors Note | Remember you are being asked as American citizens to give your blessing to the killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi Men, Women and Children. Oh, and by the way; you are not allowed to know which American companies profited from providing arms and assistance to Iraq. But I'll give you a hint; one of them was Halliburton under then CEO Dick Cheney -- to the tune of Millions. -- ma.)

posted by Lorenzo 9:04 AM