[Peace-discuss] WMD's soon to be "discovered" in Iraq?

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and the companies who helped Iraq include:


German newspaper lists Iraq arms suppliers
> By Hugh Williamson in Berlin
> Published: December 17 2002 11:57 | Last Updated:
> December 17 2002 15:43
> 
> Hewlett Packard, Dupont, Honeywell and other major
> U.S. corporations, as well as governmental agencies
> including the Department of Defense and the nation¹s
> nuclear labs, all illegally helped Iraq to build its
> biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs.
> 
> On Wednesday, December 18, Geneva-based reporter
> Andreas Zumach broke the story on the US national
> listener-sponsored radio and television show
> ³Democracy Now!² Zumach¹s 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 didn¹t list
> names.
> 
> Zumach obtained top-secret portions of Iraq¹s
> 12,000-page weapons declaration that the US had
> redacted from the version made available to the
> non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.
> 
> ³We have 24 major U.S. companies listed in the
> report
> who gave very substantial support especially to the
> biological weapons program but also to the missile
> and
> nuclear weapons program,² Zumach said. ³Pretty much
> everything was illegal in the case of nuclear and
> biological weapons. Every form of cooperation and
> supplies? was outlawed in the 1970s.²
> 
> The list of U.S. corporations listed in Iraq's
> report
> include Hewlett Packard, DuPont, Honeywell,
> Rockwell,
> Tectronics, Bechtel, International Computer Systems,
> Unisys, Sperry and TI Coating.
> 
> Zumach also said the U.S. Departments of Energy,
> Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture quietly helped
> arm
> Iraq. U.S. government nuclear weapons laboratories
> Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia trained
> traveling Iraqi nuclear scientists and gave
> non-fissile material for construction of a nuclear
> bomb.
> 
> ³There has never been this kind of comprehensive
> layout and listing like we have now in the Iraqi
> report to the Security Council so this is quite new
> and this is especially new for the U.S. involvement,
> which has been even more suppressed in the public
> domain and the U.S. population,² Zumach said.
> 
> The names of companies were supposed to be top
> secret.
> Two weeks ago Iraq provided two copies of its full
> 12,000-page report, one to the International Atomic
> Energy Agency in Geneva, and one to the United
> Nations
> in New York. Zumach said the U.S. broke an agreement
> of the Security Council and blackmailed Colombia,
> which at the time was presiding over the Council, to
> take possession of the UN¹s only copy. The U.S. then
> proceeded to make copies of the report for the other
> four permanent Security Council nations, Britain,
> France, Russia and China. Only yesterday did the
> remaining members of the Security Council receive
> their copies. By then, all references to foreign
> companies had been removed.
> 
> According to Zumach, only Germany had more business
> ties to Iraq than the U.S. As many as 80 German
> companies are also listed in Iraq¹s report. The
> paper
> reported that some German companies continued to do
> business with Iraq until last year.
> 
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> http://www.democracynow.org
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http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20021218.html
> 
> December 18, 2002
> on Democracy NOW!
> 
> 
> Story: TOP SECRET IRAQ WEAPONS REPORT SAYS THE U.S.
> GOVERNMENT & CORPORATIONS HELPED TO ILLEGALLY ARM
> IRAQ
> WE TALK WITH THE GERMAN REPORTER WHO OBTAINED LEAKED
> PORTIONS OF THE UNEDITED REPORT THAT NAMES HEWLETT
> PACKARD, DUPONT AND BECHTEL & 20 OTHER U.S.
> COMPANIES
> AS WELL AS LOS ALAMOS AND LAWRENCE LIVERMORE
> NATIONAL
> LABORATORIES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
> 
> A German newspaper has obtained portions of Iraq's
> top
> secret weapons report that reveals at least 24 U.S.
> corporations as well as four agencies of the U.S.
> government illegally helped Iraq build its
> biological,
> chemical and nuclear weapons programs.
> 
> Some of the corporations include Hewlett Packard,
> DuPont, Honeywell, Rockwell, Tectronics, Bechtel,
> International Computer Systems, Unisys, Sperry and
> TI
> Coating.
> 
> The Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung also reports
> the U.S. Department of Energy delivered essential
> non-fissile parts for Baghdad's nuclear weapons
> program in the 1980s. The Departments of
> Agriculture,
> Commerce and Defense also provided assistance.
> 
> According to the paper, only one country had more
> business ties to Iraq than the U.S. That was
> Germany.
> As many as 80 German companies are also listed in
> Iraq's report. And the paper reported that some
> German
> companies continued to do business with Iraq until
> last year.
> 
> The list of companies who worked with Iraq was
> supposed to be top secret. Iraq produced only two
> identical copies of its 12,000-page report for
> international review. One went to the International
> Atomic Energy Agency and one went to the United
> Nations. The Bush Administration quickly took
> control
> of the UN version, and made unedited copies for the
> other permanent members of the Security Council,
> Britain, France, Russia and China. The U.S. then
> made
> edited copies, which deleted all reference to
> nuclear
> weapons production and all mentions of international
> corporations. This was the report that the world was
> supposed to see.
> 
> But the German paper obtained several hundred pages
> of
> unedited text and began publishing articles based on
> the leaked documents yesterday. We're joined right
> now
> from Geneva by Andreas Zumach, the journalist who
> broke the story for Die Tageszeitung.
> 
> Guest:
> 
> *    Andreas Zumach, Geneva-based UN correspondent
> with the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung who
> obtained an unedited copy of Iraq's 12,000 page
> report
> to the United Nations. The report reveals how German
> and U.S. corporations helped build Iraq's weapons
> program.
> 
> 
> THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19:
> 
> *    Top secret Iraq weapons report says the U.S.
> government & corporations helped to illegally arm
> Iraq, Part Two: We talk again with the German
> reporter
> who obtained leaked portions of the unedited report
> that names Hewlett Packard, Dupont and Bechtel,
> Kodak
> & 20 other U.S. companies as Well as Los Alamos and
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and the
> Department of Energy.
> 
> http://www.democracynow.org/  
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/12/18/a0049.nf/text
> 
> Full list of Suppliers
> by Anu de Monterice  
> Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 10:05 PM
> coachanu at earthlink.net
> 
> Here is my translation of the original article of
> 12/18/02 published in the taz (Die Tageszeitung),
> followed by a link & translation of the supplier
> list
> of 12/19/02.
> 
> USA CENSORS IRAQ REPORT
> 
> Germany and the other non-permanent members of the
> UN
> Security Council received only a truncated version
> of
> the weapons dossier. Data concerning foreign
> suppliers
> of Iraq are missing.
> 
> Geneva: The 10 non-permanent members of the UN
> Security Council--to which Germany will belong
> starting in January--have been withheld substantial
> parts of the Iraqi arms report. All information
> about
> the supplies from--and the support of--foreign
> companies, research labs and governments from the
> mid-1970's on, related to Iraqi arms programs, have
> been deleted. The 5 permanent Council members, the
> USA, Russia, China, France and Great Britain, are
> aware of this censorship. According to the German
> Press Agency DPA, it has reduced the 12,000 page
> report to only 3000 pages.
> 
> From information gathered from UN diplomats of 2 of
> these 5 countries taz learned that the censorship
> was
> agreed on primarily upon the urging of the United
> States. Among the 5 constant members of the Security
> Council it was the USA that stood out by giving the
> strongest support to Saddam Hussain's regime by
> arming
> it with the means of mass destruction.
> 
> The report gives us a complete overview of these
> supplies for the first time. In particular it names
> the 24 US companies and when and to whom in Iraq the
> supplies were delivered. And it makes clear how
> strongly the Reagan and the first Bush
> administrations
> supported the arming of Iraq, from 1980 up to the
> Gulf
> conflict of 1990/91. Substantial construction units
> for the Iraqi nuclear weapon and rocket programs
> were
> supplied with permission of the government in
> Washington. The poison Anthrax for the arming of
> Iraq
> with biological weapons stemmed from US
> laboratories.
> Iraqi military and armament experts were trained in
> the US and there received know-how having to do with
> their domestic arms programs.
> 
> According to the estimation of Susan Wright, a US
> arms-control expert from the University of Michigan,
> publication of this information would be "especially
> embarassing for the USA." It would "remind people in
> the USA of a very dark chapter, which the Bush
> administration would prefer to forget about."
> Whether
> the US had already struck out this information
> before
> it made copies for the other 4 permanent Council
> members continues to be unclear.
> 
> Author: Andreas Zumach
> Original in German at
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/12/18/a0049.nf/text
> Translator: Anu de Monterice
> 
> The full list of arms suppliers to Iraq, as
> published
> by the taz on 12/19/02, can be found at
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/12/19/a0080.nf/textdruck
> 
> Legend used in this list: A = nuclear program, B =
> bioweapons program, C = chemical weapons program, R
> =
> rocket program, K = conventional weapons, military
> logistics, supplies at the Iraqi Defense Ministry
> and
> the building of military plants.
> 
> After the list of US firms are these remarks: "In
> addition to these 24 companies home-based in the USA
> are 50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises which
> conducted their arms business with Iraq from within
> the US. Also designated as suppliers for Iraq's arms
> programs (A, B, C & R) are the US Ministries of
> Defense, Energy, Trade and Agriculture as well as
> the
> Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National
> Laboratories." (Anu's translation)
> 
> USA
> 
> 1 Honeywell (R, K)
> 
> 2 Spectra 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 Zeiss - U.S (K)
> 
> 18 Cerberus (LTD) (A)
> 
> 19 Electronic Associates (R)
> 
> 20 International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
> 
> 21 Bechtel (K)
> 
> 22 EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R)
> 
> 23 Canberra Industries Inc. (A)
> 
> 24 Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
> 
> Zusätzlich zu diesen 24 Firmen mit Stammsitz USA
> werden in dem irakischen Rüstungsbericht knapp 50
> Tochterfirmen ausländischer Unternehmen aufgeführt,
> die ihre Rüstungskooperation mit dem Irak von den
> USA
> aus betrieben. Außerdem werden die Washingtoner
> Ministerien für Verteidigung, Energie, Handel und
> Landwirtschaft sowie die Atomwaffenlaboratorien
> Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos und Sandia als
> Zulieferer für Iraks Rüstungsprogramme für A-, B-
> und
> C-Waffen sowie für Raketen benannt.
> 
> China
> 
> 1 China Wanbao Engineering Company (A, C, K)
> 
> 2 Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (K)
> 
> 3 China State Missile Company (R)
> 
> Germany
> 
> 1 Commissariat a lEnergie Atomique (A)
> 
> 2 Sciaky (A)
> 
> 3 Thomson CSF (A, K)
> 
> 4 Aerospatiale and Matra Espace (R)
> 
> 5 Cerbag (A)
> 
> 6 Protec SA (C)
> 
> 7 Thales Group (A)
> 
> 8 Societé Général pour les Techniques Nouvelles (A)
> 
> Great Britain
> 
> 1 Euromac Ltd-Uk (A)
> 
> 2 C. Plath-Nuclear (A)
> 
> 3 Endshire Export Marketing (A)
> 
> 4 International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
> 
> 5 MEED International (A, C)
> 
> 6 Walter Somers Ltd. (R)
> 
> 7 International Computer Limited (A, K)
> 
> 8 Matrix Churchill Corp. (A)
> 
> 9 Ali Ashour Daghir (A)
> 
> 10 International Military Services (R) (im Besitz
> des
> brit. Verteidigungsministeriums)
> 
> 11 Sheffield Forgemasters (R)
> 
> 12 Technology Development Group (R)
> 
> 13 International Signal and Control (R)
> 
> 14 Terex Corporation (R)
> 
> 15 Inwako (A)
> 
> 16 TMG Engineering (K)
> 
> 17 XYY Options, Inc (A)
> 
> USSR/Russia
> 
> 1 Soviet State Missile Co. (R)
> 
> 2 Niikhism (R)
> 
> 3 Mars Rotor (R)
> 
> 4 Livinvest (R)
> 
> 5 Russia Aviatin Trading House (K)
> 
> 6 Amsar Trading (K)
> 
> Weitere Länder
> 
> Japan: Fanuc (A), Hammamatsu Photonics KK (A), NEC
> (A), Osaka (A), Waida (A)
> 
> Netherlands: Melchemie B.V. (C), KBS Holland B.V.
> (C),
> Delft Instruments N.V. (K)
> 
> Belgium: Boehler Edelstahl (A), NU Kraft Mercantile
> Corporation (C), OIP Instrubel (K), Phillips
> Petroleum
> (C), Poudries Réunies Belge SA (R), Sebatra (A),
> Space
> Research Corp. (R)
> 
> Spain: Donabat (R), Treblam (C), Zayer (A)
> 
> Sweden: ABB (A), Saab-Scania (R)
> 
> Erklärung:
> A = Atomwaffenprogramm, B = Biologisches
> Waffenprogramm, C = Chemiewaffenprogramm, R =
> Raketenprogramm, K = Konventionelle Waffen,
> militärische Logistik, Zulieferungen an das
> irakische
> Verteidigungsministerium und Bau militärischer
> Anlagen
> 
> taz Nr. 6934 vom 19.12.2002, Seite 3, 36 TAZ-Bericht
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