Syria implicated in supplying Iraq during UN embargoe....

[kalian]

Mods: That's a made up title since the article has not yet
appeared. I noted this on www.drudgereport.com.
The section that Drudge has up is:

According to recently uncovered documents in Iraq, a Syrian trading company with close ties to the ruling regime smuggled weapons and military hardware to Saddam Hussein between 2000 and 2003, establishing Syria as the main channel for illegal transfers to Baghdad during the U.N. embargo, the LOS ANGELES TIMES will report in Tuesday papers... Developing...

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As to be expected...and way ahead of schedule IMHO, they're starting
to paint Syria as the next baddie. Expect to start hearing how
nukes or other "WMDs" were transfered to Syria...

Wait for it....wait for it....

[Webster Green]

1. I guess this means we'll be going after Halliburton

......for illegally trading during the embargo?

<snip>
Despite these sanctions, the Washington Post has reported that Halliburton performed work in Iraq while Vice President Cheney was leading the company. Halliburton had stakes in two companies that signed contracts to sell over $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Mr. Cheney was CEO. The companies were subsidiaries of a joint venture between Dresser industries - which Halliburton acquired in 1998 - and Ingersoll-Rand, another large equipment maker. From 1997 through mid-2000, the subsidiaries sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities, and pipeline equipment to Iraq. <snip>

More: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Waxman2Rummy.html

[MariaS]

2. I'm Surprised

They aren't accusing Iran. Isn't that this administration's forte, threatening devastated countries?

Edited for spelling

[tritsofme]

3. Full story here:

Paper Trail Shows Syria as Iraq's Main Weapons Link

Files recovered in Iraq describe deals violating U.N. sanctions and offer a glimpse into the murky world of weapons smuggling and the ties between rogue states.
By Bob Drogin and Jeffrey Fleishman, Times Staff Writers


DAMASCUS, Syria — First of two parts

A Syrian trading company with close ties to the ruling regime smuggled weapons and military hardware to Saddam Hussein between 2000 and 2003, helping Syria become the main channel for illicit arms transfers to Iraq despite a stringent U.N. embargo, documents recovered in Iraq show.

The private company, called SES International Corp., is headed by a cousin of Syria's autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, and is controlled by other members of the president's Baath Party and Alawite clan. Syria's government assisted SES in importing at least one shipment destined for Iraq's military, the Iraqi documents indicate, and Western intelligence reports allege that senior Syrian officials were involved in other illicit transfers.

Iraqi records show that SES signed more than 50 contracts to supply tens of millions of dollars' worth of arms and equipment to Iraq's military shortly before the U.S.-led invasion in March. They reveal Iraq's increasingly desperate search in at least a dozen countries for ballistic missiles, antiaircraft missiles, artillery, spare parts for MIG fighter jets and battle tanks, gunpowder, radar systems, nerve agent antidotes and more.

The Bush administration accused Damascus in March of sending night-vision goggles and other military equipment into Iraq, but U.S. officials now say the White House was unaware of the extent of the illicit weapons traffic.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-iraqarms30dec30,1,7925533.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[lefty_mcduff]

4. Seems to me Syria is next on the list.

But the 'outrage' couldn't/can't get any traction. WMD, blah, blah, blah, run by a baddie, blah, blah. blah. They've been trying to get some momentum rolling against Syria since Iraq, but no go.

The only possible way to stir up the Freepers, the RW press and the Fundies is if the WH starts trying to paint a picture in which these weapons may have been used against US troops in the initial invasion of Iraq.

That would get some attention and then on to chapter 2 of the PNAC 'take over the world' blueprint.

[Martin_Frick]

5. I think Lieberman and Gephardt are Going to Have a Field Day With This

Just a few days ago, Howard Dean said the capture of Saddam had not made the world any safer, now - in addition to detailing multiple ways Iraq was smuggling weapons and laundering money - the LA Times is claiming to have proof that Iraq was trying to buy ballistic missile parts from North Korea.

Karl Rove has to be disappointed this story broke now as opposed to the late Spring of '04, after Dean had effectively wrapped up the primaries. Joe Lieberman and Richard Gephardt, though, should be rejuvenated tonight. Look for them to use this info to pound on Dean the next few days.

--Marty

[coda]

6. "...the capture of Saddam had not made the world any safer..."

Well, maybe he thought it odd that weeks after his capture we're on Orange alert.


Relatively speaking, supporting him (taking Iraq off our terror list in 1983) is actually what made the world less safe.


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http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/iraq-suppliers.htm


The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program

>>> Even before Iraq released its weapons-program dossier on 7 December 2002, it was said that the report would name the corporations that supplied Iraq with the equipment and other material it needed to develop biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Soon after the report was released, those suspicions were confirmed. Sources who had seen the report said that it identified suppliers from the US, UK, Germany, France, China, and elsewhere.

Now, that part of the report has been leaked. The leftist German daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung received portions of the original, uncensored 12,000-page dossier. (The names of the corporations have been blacked out of the version of the report given to the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council.) The paper has printed the list, presented below.





Key

A = nuclear weapon program
B = biological weapon program
C = chemical weapon program
R = rocket program
K = conventional weapons, military logistics, supplies at the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, and building of military plants



USA

1. Honeywell (R, K)

2. Spectra Physics (K)

3. Semetex (R)

4. TI Coating (A, K)

5. Unisys (A, K)

6. Sperry Corp. (R, K)

7. Tektronix (R, A)

8. Rockwell (K)

9. Leybold Vacuum Systems (A)

10. Finnigan-MAT-US (A)

11. Hewlett-Packard (A, R, K)

12. Dupont (A)

13. Eastman Kodak (R)

14. American Type Culture Collection (B)

15. Alcolac International (C)

16. Consarc (A)

17. Carl Zeiss - U.S (K)

18. Cerberus (LTD) (A)

19. Electronic Associates (R)

20. International Computer Systems (A, R, K)

21. Bechtel (K)

22. EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R)

23. Canberra Industries Inc. (A)

24. Axel Electronics Inc. (A)

"In addition to these 24 companies home-based in the USA are 50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises which conducted their arms business with Iraq from within the US. Also designated as suppliers for Iraq's arms programs (A, B, C & R) are the US Ministries of Defense, Energy, Trade and Agriculture as well as the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories."



China

1. China Wanbao Engineering Company (A, C, K)

2. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (K)

3. China State Missile Company (R)



France

1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (A)

2. Sciaky (A)

3. Thomson CSF (A, K)

4. Aerospatiale and Matra Espace (R)

5. Cerbag (A)

6. Protec SA (C)

7. Thales Group (A)

8. Societé Général pour les Techniques Nouvelles (A)



Great Britain

1. Euromac Ltd-Uk (A)

2. C. Plath-Nuclear (A)

3. Endshire Export Marketing (A)

4. International Computer Systems (A, R, K)

5. MEED International (A, C)

6. Walter Somers Ltd. (R)

7. International Computer Limited (A, K)

8. Matrix Churchill Corp. (A)

9. Ali Ashour Daghir (A)

10. International Military Services (R) (part of the UK Ministry of Defence)

11. Sheffield Forgemasters (R)

12. Technology Development Group (R)

13. International Signal and Control (R)

14. Terex Corporation (R)

15. Inwako (A)

16. TMG Engineering (K)

17. XYY Options, Inc (A)



USSR/Russia

1. Soviet State Missile Co. (R)

2. Niikhism (R)

3. Mars Rotor (R)

4. Livinvest (R)

5. Russia Aviatin Trading House (K)

6. Amsar Trading (K)



Japan

1. Fanuc (A)

2. Hammamatsu Photonics KK (A)

3. NEC (A)

4. Osaka (A)

5. Waida (A)



The Netherlands

1.Melchemie B.V. (C)

2. KBS Holland B.V. (C)

3. Delft Instruments N.V. (K)



Belgium

1. Boehler Edelstahl (A)

2. NU Kraft Mercantile Corporation (C)

3. OIP Instrubel (K)

4. Phillips Petroleum (C)

5. Poudries Réunies Belge SA (R)

6. Sebatra (A)

7. Space Research Corp. (R)



Spain

1. Donabat (R)

2. Treblam (C)

3. Zayer (A)



Sweden

1. ABB (A)

2. Saab-Scania (R)

[The Stranger]

7. Iran or Syria?

Which one is next will not be certain until that Monkey Paul Wolfowitz decides what he wants to do.