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(en) 26 COUNTRIES HELPED SADDAM TO BUILD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
From
Joseph Catron <catron@biogate.com>
Date
Mon, 09 Feb 1998 12:58:43 -0500
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26 COUNTRIES HELPED SADDAM TO BUILD WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION
LONDON (1 December): IBC has learned that companies from at least 26
different countries have supplied Saddam Hussein with equipment for his
chemical, nuclear, and advanced weapons programmes. Following is a list
of the
countries followed by the number of contractors from that country
implicated in
the arming of Saddam's regime.
Argentina 3
Austria 17
Brazil 8
Egypt 1
USA 18
France 21
Greece 1
India 1
Romania 1
Italy 12
Japan 1
UK 19
Netherlands 3
Poland 1
Germany (FRG) 86
Sweden 1
Switzerland 11
Spain 4
Companies from China, Yugoslavia, South Korea, North Korea, Cuba,
Denmark, Finland and Norway are also known to have been involved in
arming
Saddam, but due to the top secret nature of their trade, the exact
number of
companies from these countries is not known. Companies from China are
known to have aided the Iraqi nuclear programme and to have supplied
plutonium to Iraq. Iraq's debt to Chinese state-owned firms is over $5
billion.
Contact: London (0171) 495 1666.
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