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There is breaking news that is NOT being covered (for the most part) in our pro-Israel (Zionist) biased US media about what is in the 12,000 page declaration that the USA has in its possession currently (pages were leaked which are proving very embarrassing for the US JINSA Zionists and others who want an invasion of Iraq as soon as possible). See the "Free Speech Radio News" broadcast for yesterday (Wednesday, December 18th, 2002) via the following URL

http://www.fsrn.org/news/

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http://www.democracynow.org/

A Democracy Now! exclusive ***

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 the nation’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.

Democracy Now! has published translations of Andreas Zumach’s articles from Die Tageszeitung here

Democracy Now!'s interview with Andreas Zumach is archived online here.

For additional links that were embedded in the above article, access the following URL:

http://www.democracynow.org/Zumach.htm

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http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2002/12/19/bush-s-trusty-new-mideast-point-man-wolfowitz-mentioned.php

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Pro-Israel (Zionist) Biased US Press/Media

The following is most likely why we haven't seen any coverage yet of the above story (I heard that the Los Angeles Times is supposed to have printed an article on such, but I can't find it via http://www.latimes.com as I also heard that a New York Times reporter had spoken with the reporter who broke the story but still no coverage at http://www.nytimes.com):

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-letters14.2dec14.story

December 14, 2002

LETTERS
Antiwar words

WHY did you consign the article on the formation of the Win Without War Coalition to the Calendar section ("Speaking Against War," by Hilary E. MacGregor, Dec. 10)? The A section front page carried a center article and two references to "related stories" reporting on the administration's unilateral march toward war in Iraq but no mention of this newest organization in the burgeoning opposition.

The press dutifully reports the administration line and utterly fails to look behind the doublespeak. The press is complicitous. The argument is about whether you bomb, not when you bomb. Please afford the antiwar movement equal coverage.

Katherine Butts Warwick

Los Angeles

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:16 pm Post subject:

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Look at the apparent bias below in that the writer only covers the German corporations and mentions NOTHING about the US companies and US government involvement either (from the DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE at the Pentagon), and I haven't seen any coverage of the American angle on any US television/press news today either as this is a HUGE story (WHY ISN"T IT BEING COVERED in mainstream press/media in the USA):

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-german18dec18.story

Germans Were Chief Weapons Supplier to Iraq, Paper Reports
The daily claims it saw Baghdad's weapons list. Most of the reported trade was considered legal and took place before the embargo.
By Jeffrey Fleishman
Times Staff Writer

December 18 2002

BERLIN -- German corporations were by far the largest suppliers of technology and hardware to Iraq's military industry over the last 30 years, according to a German newspaper that claims to have glimpsed the recently released Iraqi weapons declaration.

The report in the left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung on Tuesday details the past involvement of companies, institutions and individuals who exported materials to Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear industries. The newspaper reported that U.S. authorities were investigating whether a German microelectronics company was trading with Iraq throughout the 1990s in violation of U.N. economic sanctions. The name of the company was not disclosed.

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FOR THE RECORD

Germany's business with Iraq -- An article in Wednesday's Section A about German business dealings with Iraq provided incorrect information. In the quote published, an analyst said, "Germany really played a major role in equipping Iraq with dual-use goods that ended in the weapons of mass destruction industry throughout the 1990s." It was actually in the 1980s.
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For the most part, however, the newspaper account is another indication that the Iraqi regime has revealed no significant evidence about any current programs for weapons of mass destruction.

Much of the material cited by the newspaper -- which says it had at least partial access to Iraq's nearly 12,000-page weapons declaration -- appears to bolster Washington's argument that Baghdad is trying to obscure recent attempts to build chemical and nuclear weapons by dwelling on known programs of the past. Most of the trade reported by the newspaper was considered legal and occurred before the 1990 embargo imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

The Tageszeitung report is expected to create a buzz in Europe and prompt a reexamination of Germany's role in arming a nation that today is being scoured by U.N. weapons inspectors while teetering close to war with the United States.

"I think those companies not named in public until today will probably check their books to find out if there is something they should be concerned about," said Otfried Nassauer, director of the Berlin Information-Center for Transatlantic Security. "They will look to see if shipments were made that were not approved by the sanctions committee."

The newspaper reported that Iraq's weapons declaration listed 150 international firms as suppliers to its military industry. At least 80 of those -- more than the combined total of all other nations -- were based in Germany. The U.S. was the second-largest supplier, with 24 firms exporting to Baghdad. Other supplier countries included France, Britain, Egypt, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Although much of the information in the newspaper's account isn't new, it would be the first time that Iraq, through its weapons declaration, had publicly acknowledged its military suppliers.

The weapons declaration, according to the newspaper, "contains numerous hints about cases in which German institutions and government authorities, including the federal Economics Ministry, especially from the 1970s until the Gulf War of 1991, have tolerated and partly promoted illegal arms cooperation with Iraq."

The German government said it would not respond to the newspaper's account because it hadn't seen the Iraqi document. The government investigated illegal arms sales in the early 1990s, and a spokesman for the Economics Ministry said Tuesday that there "have been a couple of cases in violation of the embargo."

Die Tageszeitung said its reporting was based "on a complete original" of the Iraqi declaration. The article followed a report this year in Der Spiegel newsmagazine about a 58-year-old German exporter, identified as Bernd S., who teamed up with an Iraqi businessman in the late 1990s and shipped parachutes, flak jackets and drills used in artillery production to Baghdad. The Iraqi, identified as Sahib al-H., was arrested in Bulgaria two weeks ago. The case is expected to come to trial early next year.

Germany and many other Western countries, including the U.S., were heavy exporters to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's war machine in the 1970s and '80s, when Iraq was an ally amid the turmoil of the Middle East. The U.S. and other countries sided with Iraq throughout the 1980s in its war against Iran. There was little restriction on military trade, and when the Persian Gulf War erupted in 1991, many European and U.S. firms tried to skirt the trade embargo.

Germany has held numerous trials for managers and corporations accused of illegally trading with Iraq. One included charges against Rhein-Bayern Fahrzeugbau, which exported more than 1,000 ignition systems for Styx and Scud missiles that could carry biological and nuclear warheads. The company's owner, Anton Eyerle, who belonged to the far-right National Democratic Party and was an admirer of Hussein, was sentenced to more than five years in prison.

Rheining Haus Corp. was fined $75,000 by the German government for shipping 24 tons of phosphorous oxychloride to Iraq in 1994-95. The substance, according to authorities, may have been used in Iraq's chemical weapons industry.

Much of the trade by German companies dealt with "dual-use" items, meaning goods such as hospital equipment that could have been reconfigured to fit into the weapons industry. Corporations contend that they should not be held accountable for such practices.

"Germany really played a major role in equipping Iraq with dual-use goods that ended in the weapons of mass destruction industry throughout the 1990s," Nassauer said. "They included measuring devices, dual-use goods in medical fields and production facilities. There was even a case in which a dough-mixing bakery machine ended up in Iraq's chemical weapons industry.

"It seemed strange that so many of those machines were being ordered. You had to wonder who was eating all that bread."

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:18 pm Post subject:

OK, supposedly the US supplied him. And they have supplied no records of destroying them and yet they don't have them.

The Iraqi report is not truthful in other areas, yet we are to believe this part.

OK. SUre.

Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:34 pm Post subject:

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Guest · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:49 pm Post subject:

Never mind vague, unsubstantiated accusations. Where is the text from the report? What, specifically, was sold? When?

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Iraq Declaration Shows US Helped Saddam Get Weapons