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Leaked report says German and US firms supplied arms to Saddam (Tony Paterson, The Independent, 18 December 2002) Iraq's 11,000-page report to the UN Security Council lists 150 foreign companies, including some from America, Britain, Germany and France, that supported Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme, a German newspaper said yesterday. . . . Berlin's left-wing Die Tageszeitung newspaper said it had seen a copy of the original Iraqi dossier which was vetted for sensitive information by US officials before being handed to the five permanent Security Council members two weeks ago. An edited version was passed to the remaining 10 members of the Security Council last night. . . . British officials said the list of companies appeared to be accurate. Eighty German firms and 24 US companies are reported to have supplied Iraq with equipment and know-how for its weapons programmes from 1975 onwards and in some cases support for Baghdad's conventional arms programme had continued until last year.
[Listed U.S. companies allegedly include:
A - nuclear K - chemical B - biological R - rockets (missiles)
1) Honeywell (R,K) 2) Spektra Physics (K) 3) Semetex (R) 4) TI Coating (A,K) 5) UNISYS (A,K) 6) Sperry Corp. (R,K) 7) Tektronix (R,A) 8) Rockwell )(K) 9) Leybold Vacuum Systems (A) 10) Finnigan-MAT-US (A) 11) Hewlett Packard (A.R,K) 12) Dupont (A) 13) Eastman Kodak (R) 14) American Type Culture Collection (B) 15) Alcolac International (C) 16) Consarc (A) 17) Carl Zeis -U.Ss (K) 18) Cerberus (LTD) (A) 19) Electronic Assiciates (R) 20) International Computer Systems 21) Bechtel (K) 22) EZ Logic Data Systems,Inc. (R) 23) Canberra Industries Inc. (A) 24) Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
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