Publish the names of the companies that has been offering MDV-tech to Saddam.

[Henry_B]

The original title was to long:
"UN should publish all the names of the companies that has been offering MDV-tech to Saddam."
Anyhow, some European papers “knows” that Saddam has given the UN-inspectors all the papers also about which firms and from what countries, has offered him nuke-, biological and chemical technology for weapons.

According to these sources, Saddam admits that he has “detailed plans to build this kind of weapons, and that he also give names and documentation on this… From many countries, even companies from USA…”

I take this as a hypothetical question, so far, but my opinion is that every such firm should be investigated by the authorothies in that country, and the names made public, if the allegations can be proven in court.
That is every countrys duty. :mad:

Just a side-note:
A week ago, I saw at the Discovery-channel, that when Russia begun to search after their “suitcase-A-bombs”, (I am not so familiar what exactklly was meant by these suitcases, because I did not see the program from tyhe beginning.
The Russian authoroties found 48 of them and 84 was missing.

This as a sidestep of this War against Terrorism, the world should be worried. Just a notice: I have been working as a trader between Russia and EU for 7 years, and can assure You that “everything is not just stories”.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Yes, apparently it is possible that there may be some Russian suitcase bombs missing. A “suitcase” bomb is a small nuclear bomb that is small enough to fit in a suitcase, as opposed to the kind of large bomb that has to be dropped from an airplane.

From 1997.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/ussr102/

From 1999.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/comments.html

I’m assuming that by “MDV-tech” you mean “Mass Destruction Weapons”, what we’re calling “WOMD”, for “Weapons Of Mass Destruction”.

The biggest problem with trying to list all the companies that are supplying WOMD technology to Iraq is defining what constitutes “WOMD technology”. Are aluminum tubes “WOMD technology”? How about certain kinds of steel? How about carbon fibers?

http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/107thcongress/02-09-19milhollin.html

High-strength aluminum tubes are not the only items that are useful in making centrifuge parts. Maraging steel and carbon fibers are also employed for this purpose.

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In addition to centrifuge components, maraging steel is used to make solid rocket motor cases, propellant tanks, and interstages for missiles.

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This steel is produced by companies in France, Japan, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States… Several steel companies list maraging steel on the Internet and can produce it in multi-ton quantities. Over the telephone, two American companies and one British company explained to my staff how to order 25 ton quantities with delivery in less than a month.

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In addition to maraging steel and high-strength aluminum, composites reinforced by carbon or glass fibers can be used to form the rotors of gas centrifuges. The fibers are also used in skis, tennis racquets, boats and golf clubs, and are produced in a number of countries.

And then there’s this…

In the article in the New York Times from 1992, entitled “Iraq’s Bomb, Chip by Chip,” we see that America’s leading electronic companies sold sensitive equipment directly to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, to sites where atomic bomb fuel was made, and to a site where A-bomb detonators were made.

American companies also shipped directly to Saad 16, Iraq’s main missile building site, and to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, which oversaw Iraq’s missile and A-bomb development. Virtually every nuclear and missile site in Iraq received high-speed American computers.

Oopsie. :rolleyes: How embarrassing for us, huh? But wait, there’s more…

The second article in the New York Times is from 1993. It shows that America was not alone in supplying Iraq’s mass destruction weapon effort. Its Western allies joined in…German firms sold as much to Iraq’s mass destruction weapon programs as the rest of the world combined. Not only were German firms the main suppliers of Iraq’s chemical weapon plants, German firms also sold components that helped increase the range of Iraq’s Scud missiles.

How embarrassing for the Gemans, huh?

And then there’s the way that back in the 1990s, American companies like Motorola and Hewlett Packard sold super-computers and other techology, as well as training, to a Chinese company called Huawei, which then apparently turned around and sold it, as a military defense system upgrade, to Iraq.

http://www.iraqwatch.org/suppliers/techno-2time.htm

So, it’s just too complicated. Given the complexity of world trade in the 21 century, there isn’t any way you can get a “master list” of all the Bad Companies who are doing WOMD business with Saddam Hussein.

But if you’re interested, these folks have compiled a database of suppliers. Browse to your heart’s content.

http://www.iraqwatch.org/suppliers/index.html

And you can look at this.
http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/flow/iraq/