What Are the Inspectors Really Looking For?
Let's take a step back from the fray and examine the real target in ...
are the ... really looking for? The answer is: whatthey have received from the US - the West's own exports - such Let's take a step back from the fray and examine the real target in Iraq...what are the inspectors really looking for? The answer is: whatthey have received from the US - the West's own exports - such as dual-use equipment used for manufacturing of weapons of destruction.
This was supplied with the blessing of the US Commerce Dept...$1.5-b worth of dual-use goods. The inspectors have destroyed a good deal of the equipment imported inthe 1990s, but much still remains.
The West's companies and governmentsare more guilty than most people remember. Following is alisting of some of the items received from the West:Nassr State Enterprise - Helped extend the range of Iraq's SCUD missiles so they could strike US troops in Saudi Arabia and Israelis in Tel Aviv.
- Also helped Iraq's secret effort to enrich uranium. - Machine tools and high-speed computers: Leybold Vacuum Systems, Hewlett Packard (US); Matrix Churchill Ltd., MEED International (UK); Heinrich Mueller GmbH (Germany); International Computer Systems (UK) - Components and know-how for a plant intended for missile production: Anlagen Bau Contor (Germany)- Missile guidance components: Inwako, C.
Plath (Germany) - Equipment to make missile combustion chambers: H&H Metalform, Leifeld and Co. GmbH (Germany) - Magnets for centrifuges for enriching uranium: Rhein-Bayern Fahrzeugbau GmbH & Co KG (Germany) - Magnets for calutrons for enriching uranium: Voest-Alpine AG (Austria) - Turbopumps for the engines of SCUD missiles: Thyssen Maschinenbau GmbH (Germany) - Glass fiber plant useful for making rocket motor casings: Matrix Churchill Corp.
(US/UK); Glass Inc. International (US) Al-Qaqaa - Developed explosive lenses for nuclear weapons - High-speed computers: Cerberus, Perkin Elmer Corporation (US) University of Mosul - Site of Iraq's major missile development center - Research on chemical and nuclear weapons - Equipment for enhancing satellite images: E.Z.
Logic Data Systems (US) - Infrared electronic imaging equipment useful for aerial reconnaissance and missile tracking: International Imaging Systems (US)- Computers and mass spectrometers useful for nuclear weapon work: Finnigan-MAT (US) Al Kindi - Modification and production of SCUD-B/Al Hussein missiles - Production of the "supergun" - Research on missile components and fuel - High-precision coordinate measuring machines: Mauserwerke Oberndorf GmbH, Zeiss, Mauser (Germany) Samarra Drug Industry - Prime production facility for Iraqi mustard gas and nerve agents, according to U.S. intelligence sources - Reported in 2001 by August Hanning, the director of German intelligence (BND), to be developing new chemical weapons - Parts for the Samarra chemical weapon complex: Water Engineering Trading (Germany) - Site construction services: Heberger Bau (Germany) - Equipment for six separate chemical plants, including facilities and construction components: Karl Kolb and Pilot Plant (Germany) - Equipment for chemical, physiological and biological analysis (Germany) - According to Hanning, "important components for the production of poison gas" (Germany) Hutteen State Establishment - Built testing facility at Iraq's main nuclear weapon development site - Artillery ammunition for chemical payloads: Treblan (Spain) - High-speed computers: E.Z.
Logic Data Systems (US); International Computer Systems (US/UK) - Machine tools and equipment: Matrix Churchill Ltd., MEED International (UK) Salah al Din - Military electronics factory which produced three-dimensional early warning radars, electronic countermeasures and inertial guidance components - Also produced equipment for making nuclear weapon fuel - Turn-key factory built by Thomson-CSF (France) - Lasers, laser systems, and "communication/ detection racking equipment:" Spectra Physics (US) - Quartz crystals and electronic assemblies for use in radar systems: Zeta Laboratories Inc. (US) - Frequency synthesizers for developing surveillance radar: Hewlett Packard (US)Source: www.iraqwatch.org [12.10PM 13 Feb 03]Iraq Watch Bulletin, vol2, Issue 1, Jan-Feb.
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