evidence of U.S. (and European) culpability in aiding the Iraqi weapons programs

[jacko_be]

reported in Die Tageszeitung (Berlin
daily), here is a list of US corporations that alegedly supplied Iraq
with nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile technology, prior to
1991. The list comes, it seems, from the original Iraqi report to the
Security Council. This is a big breaking story in Europe

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U.S. corporations involved in Saddam's Iraq...

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 Associates (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)

Additionally to these 24 companies based in the US, are nearly 50
subsidiaries of foreign enterprises whose arms co-operation with Iraq
seems to have been operated from the US. In addition, Ministries for
defense, energy, trade, and agriculture, as well as the foremost U.S.
nuclear weapons laboratories at Lawrence Livermore. Los Alamos, and
Sandia, are designated as suppliers for the Iraqi arms programs for A,
B, and C-weapons as well as for rockets.

This list doesn't include governmental and quasi-governmental agencies that gave
technology to Iraq, including the Pentagon, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories,
Sandia Labs, Los Alamos, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Source: Die Tageszeitung (Berlin daily newspaper), who says it came from the
original Iraqi report to the UN Security Council.

[Democracyinkind]

1. I don't see Marc Rich + Co Investment AG on that list... I wonder why....

great post...

You wouldn't have a link to that, would you?

thanks.

[jacko_be]

2. do you read german ? i'm looking for it, i didn't put it in my favorites

[Igel]

3. Very old.

http://www.ccmep.org/2002_articles/Iraq/121802_top_secret.htm

"On Wednesday, December 18 (2002), Geneva-based reporter Andreas Zumach broke the story on the US national listener-sponsored radio and television show “Democracy Now!” Zumach’s Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung plans to soon publish a full list of companies and nations who have aided Iraq. The paper first reported on Tuesday that German and U.S. companies had extensive ties to Iraq but didn’t list names."

A search at the Tageszeitung website ( http://www.taz.de/ ) for 2001-2005 showed no hits for most of the names. I don't think the much vaunted report was ever reported. Make of that what you will.

[struggle4progress]

4. US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq UN Report (Project Censored 2004)

... Throughout the winter of 2002, the Bush administration publicly accused Iraqi weapons declarations of being incomplete. The almost unbelievable reality of this situation is that it was the United States itself that had removed over 8,000 pages of the 11,800 page original report ... The Berlin newspaper Die Tageszetung broke the story on December 19, 2002 in an article by Andreas Zumach ...

At the same time, according to the investigation by Michael Niman, the Iraq government sent out official copies of the report on November 3, 2002. One, classified as “secret,” was sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency, another copy went to the UN Security Council. The U.S. convinced Colombia, chair of the Security Council and current target of U.S. military occupation and financial aid, to look the other way while the report was removed, edited, and returned. Other members of the Security Council such as Britain, France, China and Russia, were implicated in the missing pages as well (China and Russia were still arming Iraq) and had little desire to expose the United States’ transgression. So all members accepted the new, abbreviated version ...

According to Niman, “The missing pages implicated twenty-four U.S.-based corporations and the successive Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. administration in connection with the illegal supplying of Saddam Hussein government with myriad weapons of mass destruction and the training to use them" ...

But perhaps most importantly, the missing pages contain information that could potentially make a case for war crimes against officials within the Reagan and the Bush Sr. administrations. This includes the current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - for his collaboration with Saddam Hussein leading up to the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and acting as liaison for U.S. military aid during the war between Iraq and Iran ...

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-us-illegally-removes-pages-from-iraq-un-report/

[jacko_be]

5. here is the english link

storry a bit older then imagined, however it was new for me
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/11250