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[Lydia Sayle]

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> Jan 29, 20003
>
> Here is one of the episodes in the "Iraq Deception."  Paraphrased from the
> movie and video The Panama Deception: Exposing the Coverup
>
> Sincerely,
> Harold.
>
> >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:39:51 -0500
> >Subject: Science for Peace 27-01-03: America Tore out 8000 Pages of Iraq
> >Dossier
> >From: Paul Hamel <paul.hamel at utoronto.ca>
> >
> >Sender: sfptor-admin at physics.utoronto.ca
> >
> >Greetings from Science for Peace.  First off, the Science for Peace web
> >site (http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca) has a few additions of
> >note.  The section on information concerning Iraq has been updated with
> >some excellent analyses of Iraq's weapons programs and the results of
> >current inspections.  The list of companies and U.S. government agencies
> >supplying Iraq with technology for their biological, chemical and nuclear
> >weapons programs can also be found there.  There is also a preliminary
> >essay concerning the U.S. National Missile Defense Program, the
> >weaponisation of space and their relationship to U.S. economic interests.
> >
> >Today the UN Weapons Inspectors in Iraq will deliver their report to the
> >Security Council on their progress in Iraq.  The U.S. is again dismissing
> >the work of the inspectors and continues to prepare for their next
vicious
> >war.  Sadly, however, we learn that the government of Canada has stated
> >that Canadians might be sent to participate in a slaughter in Iraq
without
> >UN Security Council approval.  This profoundly undemocratic policy is
> >completely at odds with every analysis performed on this
> >matter.  Furthermore, as currently debated, Canadians are being given the
> >option to choose between a UN-sanctioned war or a US-lead war when, in
> >fact, a peaceful, non-violent solution to this issue should be the the
> >major point of discussion.  Please phone, write and/or visit your MP's to
> >voice your opposition to Canadian participation and complicity in this
war.
> >
> >One of the points that should be considered is how the Iraqi regime came
> >to posses & use chemical weapons, develop biological weapons as well to
> >learn about & acquire the technology to produce nuclear weapons.  Well, a
> >great deal of this was outlined in the recent 11,800 page report the
> >Iraqi's provided to the Security Council in December last year.  However,
> >if you may recall, the U.S. with the cooperation of Colombia (chair of
the
> >Security Council at the time) intercepted the report and "cleansed" it of
> >parts that supposedly contained "bomb making" information.  The
uncensored
> >report went out only to the 5 permanent members of the SC while the
> >remaining members received the edited version.  Unreported in the
Canadian
> >Press (as far as I have been able to find) was that this edit of the Iraq
> >report constituted 8,000 pages of the 11,800 submitted!  Clearly, the
> >Canadian Government is in no position to judge whether Iraq is complying
> >with the UN resolutions given that three quarters of the information is
> >not available.  Some of the deleted portions, however, have surfaced and
> >"curiously" we learn that companies in Germany and the U.S. where
> >providing Iraq with the means to develop and deliver chemical, biological
> >and nuclear weapons.  Furthermore, this assistance occurred at a time
when
> >UN prohibition of these a activities was in place.
> >Below is a discussion taken from the program Democracy Now discussing
this
> >issue.  More excellent links on this subject are on the Science for peace
> >web site.
> >
> >Finally, if you like this information and are not a member of Science for
> >Peace, please consider joining us and contributing to our efforts to
> >achieve a peaceful, just and sustainable world.
> >
> >
> >A US Media Mystery:
> >The Case of the Missing Information about Iraq's Weapons
> >A Chronicle report
> >Sources:
> >
> >The Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland): "America Tore out 8000 Pages of
> >Iraq Dossier" by James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot
> >
> >"Democracy Now" NPR radio show
> >The major media in the US seem intent on following a script worthy of an
> >Agatha Christie mystery. They lay out a few clues at best and withhold or
> >obscure facts that could give you a better picture of why and how the
> >crime was committed.
> >
> >The plot? The missing 8,000 pages the United States edited out of Iraq's
> >11,800-page dossier on weapons before it passed on a "sanitized" version
> >to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council,
> >according to a December 22 story in the Glasgow, Scotland Sunday Herald.
> >
> >The five permanent members of the security council-the US, the UK,
France,
> >China and Russia-were given access to the complete "top secret" version
of
> >the dossier.
> >
> >Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan called it was 'unfortunate' that
> >the UN had allowed the US to take the only complete dossier and edit it.
> >Norway, a fellow (non-permanent) member of the Security Council, was
> >miffed; its UN spokesperson said Norway felt like it was being treated
> >like a "second-class country" because it wasn't made privy to the
complete
> >dossier.
> >
> >Without all the information, the authors point out, the non-permanent
> >members of the Security Council will have no way of testing the US claims
> >for themselves if the US and the UK go back to the Security Council
> >seeking authorization to wage war on Iraq due to alleged breaches of
> >resolution 1441. The UN weapons inspectors' report is expected to be made
> >to the UN this month.
> >
> >Hans von Sponeck, former assistant general secretary of the UN and the
> >UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Iraq until 2000, told the Scottish
> >authors, "This is an outrageous attempt by the US to mislead."
> >
> >So now we know about the missing pages. But the Scottish journalists
don't
> >offer a clue as to what was in them. Yet surely we need to know that
> >information in order to understand why those pages were removed.
> >
> >We watched and waited for more details, thinking surely our "major media"
> >would be on the case, giving front-page coverage to this monumental
> >mystery. But no-it was holiday time; the front pages were filled with
> >stories about shoppers in malls and ruminations about North Korea. The
> >crime of omission wasn't even brought up.
> >
> >The needed information came through on December 18 by way of a
> >Geneva-based reporter, Andreas Zumach. He broke the story on the US
> >national listener-sponsored radio and television show "Democracy Now!,"
> >reporting that he had found that the missing pages provided the names of
> >US corporations, government agencies and even nuclear labs that over the
> >years have helped arm Iraq, and train Iraqi personnel in the use of these
> >arms-illegally.
> >
> >"We 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," Zumach said. "Pretty much
> >everything was illegal in the case of nuclear and biological weapons.
> >Every form of cooperation and supplies was outlawed in the 1970s."
> >
> >US corporations listed in the missing pages of the report include Hewlett
> >Packard, DuPont, Honeywell, Rockwell, Tectronics, Bechtel, International
> >Computer Systems, Unisys, Sperry and TI Coating. Further, the missing
> >information shows that US governmental agencies, including the
Departments
> >of Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture, as well as the U.S. government
> >nuclear weapons laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia,
> >all illegally helped Iraq to build its biological, chemical and nuclear
> >weapons programs by providing supplies and/or training
> >
> >Zumach's Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung was set to publish a full
> >list of companies and nations who have aided Iraq. Most prominent among
> >them is Germany, which had more business ties to Iraq than the US, with
> >about 80 companies listed in Iraq's report. Some German companies
> >continued to do business with Iraq until last year, according to the
report.
> >
> >Iraq provided two copies of its full 12,000-page report, one to the
> >International Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva, and one to the UN in New
> >York. Zumach claims the U.S. broke an agreement of the Security Council
> >and pressured Colombia, which at the time was presiding over the Council,
> >to take possession of the UN's only copy. The US then made copies of the
> >report only for the four other permanent Security Council nations.
Several
> >days later, the other members of the Security Council received their
> >copies-with all references to foreign companies removed.
> >
> >So, readers-do you recall reading anything about this in The Sun or your
> >own hometown paper? Do you realize that "Democracy Now"-though available
> >through the National Public Radio system-is not one of programs
> >Baltimore's local NPR affiliate station, WYPR, chooses to air?
> >
> >Are you aware that what you are reading here just might be the only
> >Baltimore-based news report on this subject up until now? And doesn't it
> >mystify you that you're finding it here, in a monthly community
newspaper,
> >when it ought to be on the front pages all across the US, and widely
> >reported on the TV and radio "news" shows?
> >
> >The real mystery, then, isn't so much the missing pages-it's the case of
> >the missing news. And what possible motive could there be for this news
to
> >be omitted?
> >
> >Here's the list of U.S. companies.  Go to the Science for Peace Web site
> >(look for the Iraq link) to find more information.
> >
> >Hewlett-Packard, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Honeywell, Bechtel, American Type
> >Culture Collection, Spectra Physics, Semetex, TI Coating, Unisys, Sperry
> >Corp., Tektronix, Rockwell, Leybold Vacuum Systems, Finnigan-MAT-US,
> >Alcolac International, Consarc, Carl Zeiss - U.S., Cerberus, Electronic
> >Associates, International Computer Systems, , EZ Logic Data Systems,
Inc.,
> >Canberra Industries Inc., Axel Electronics Inc.
> >
> >
> >Paul A. Hamel
> >President, Science for Peace
> >Toronto, Ontario, Canada
> >
> >416-978-8741 (phone) / 416-978-5959 (fax)
> >paul.hamel at utoronto.ca (e-mail)
> >http://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca
> >
> >Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for
> >all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all
> >people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree
> >of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized. --Albert
> >Einstein, 1945.
> >
> >"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the
> >nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."
> >-- Economist John Maynard Keynes
> >
> >"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
> >act."  __George Orwell
> >
> >
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