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>does anyone know of a 1993 agreement between rolf >ekeus/unscom/companies which supplied chem and >bio weapons to >iraq, agreeing that unscom would keep companies names out of >the equation to >preserve commercial confidentiality Any UNSCOM/UN Security Council decision to not publicize company names probably had more do with the 1980-1990 Iraq-related export and foreign policies of the States in which these companies were/are based than with commercial confidentiality. To see why, it is important to know which States were involved and then to compare those State names with the names of States who seemed to pursue through Security Council resolutions Iraq's non-conventional disarmament. Cole, Leonard A., "The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare," (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1997), pg. 82, cites Kenneth R. Timmerman, "The Poison Gas Connection," Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, 1990, pg. 46 which listed "207 firms in 21 countries that provided supplies for Iraq's unconventional weapons program. Transactions continued through the Iran-Iraq war and after." According to Cole, (pg. 82) the Timmerman study (pg. 46) makes the following sample corporate breakdown: Federal Republic of Germany [former West Germany]: 86 companies U.S.: 18 companies (including Hewlett Packard [Timmerman, pg. 52]) UK: 18 companies Austria: 17 companies France: 16 companies Italy: 12 companies Switzerland: 11 companies If you would like an MS Word attachment detailing, year-by-year, relevant U.S.-Iraq commercial, diplomatic, and military relations, please let me know. For more details about how Iraq was non-conventionally armed, please also see: Jentleson, Bruce, W., "With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990," (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994) Mark Phythian, "Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam’s War Machine," (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997) Timmerman, Kenneth R., "The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq," (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991) Best regards, Nathaniel Hurd Boston, USA ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi