Just for general information:
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US Corporations and Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
Where did Iraq get its stores of dangerous biological and chemical agents and components for other weapons of mass destruction? One of its suppliers was the American Type Culture Collection in Maryland, which provided strains used to make anthrax and botulinum. Electronics produced by U.S. companies have been used at facilities throughout Iraq, including the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, production sites for A-bomb fuel and nuclear weapon detonators, and at Iraq’s main missile research complex. These companies include Tektronix (a producer of high-speed diagnostic equipment), Perkin-Elmer (computers and instruments for quality control), Finnigan MAT (computers used for monitoring uranium enrichment) and the U.S. subsidiary of Siemens (instruments for powders used in the production of A-bombs and missiles). In 1988, the Unisys Corporation, an American company, sold Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior (i.e. the department in charge of the secret police) a computer system configured to allow the government to track Iraqi citizens. The same corporation also sold high-speed computers to Iraq’s Ministry of Defense and the Saddam State Establishment, which used the machines in the production of components for missiles and nuclear weapons. In almost all cases, these sales were completely legal – reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, 3/24/2003
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