[news] U.S. Corporations, Gov't Agencies and Nuclear Labs Helped Illegally Arm Iraq

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Top-secret Iraq Report Reveals U.S. Corporations, Gov't Agencies and Nuclear
Labs Helped Illegally Arm Iraq

Hewlett Packard, Dupont, Honeywell and other major U.S. corporations, as
well as governmental agencies including the Department of Defense and
thenation’s 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
“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.

Zumach obtained top-secret portions of Iraq’s 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.

“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.”

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.

“There 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,” 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 UN’s 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 Iraq’s report. The
paper reported that some German companies continued to do business with Iraq
until last year.

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TOP SECRET IRAQ WEAPONS REPORT SAYS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & CORPORATIONS
HELPED TO ILLEGALLY ARM IRAQ, PART TWO

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.

These 24 U.S. corporations all illegally helped Iraq, according to the
German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, which published the list today.

The report is based on top-secret portions of the Iraq weapons document
received by the paper's Geneva correspondent Andreas Zumach.

Iraq's report also implicates the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense,
Commerce, and Agriculture and U.S. government nuclear weapons laboratories
Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia.

Zumach also revealed today that Iraq's report indicates two permanent
members of the United Nations Security Council, Russia and China, continue
to this day to arm Iraq.

The names of the 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 UN's 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 Tuesday did the remaining members of
the Security Council receive their copies. By then, all references to
foreign companies had been removed.

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.