Lawsuit filed against 3 US companies for supplying chemical WMDs to Iraq

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http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=11247&type=UTTM">Lawsuit filed against 3 US companies for supplying chemical WMDs to Iraq -- Alcolac pleaded guilty in 1989 to knowingly violating export laws by shipping a mustard-gas ingredient that ultimately went to Iran. 09 Apr 2009 Five survivors of the 1988 poison gas attacks of ethnic Kurds in Iraq have filed a class action lawsuit in Maryland claiming three American companies and the government of Iraq violated the Geneva Convention by using mustard and nerve gasses to kill tens of thousands of people. Filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the lawsuit says the companies supplied the regime of former Iraqi dictator (CIA asset) Saddam Hussein with the chemical precursors and compounds needed to make the poison gases used in the six-month long "Operation Anfal."

http://wjz.com/local/chemical.weapons.saddam.2.981406.html">Lawsuit Alleges Firms Sold Iraq Chemical Weapons09 Apr 2009 A federal lawsuit in Baltimore accuses three companies of unlawfully selling to the Saddam Hussein regime materials for making chemical weapons that were used against Iraqi Kurds in 1988. The complaint filed Tuesday by five Kurds in Tennessee and the Nashville-based Kurdish National Congress seeks unspecified damages from chemical makers Alcolac Inc., of Cumberland, Md., and VWR International LLC of West Chester, Pa.; and laboratory equipment supplier Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Mass.

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2. List of US businesses that sold weapons to Saddam Hussein

List of US businesses that sold weapons to Saddam Hussein In addition to these 24 companies based in the US, nearly 50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises whose arms co-operation with Iraq seems to have operated from the US. 10 Apr 2009 A, nuclear K, chemical B, biological R, rockets (missiles) Honeywell (R,K) Spektra Physics (K) Semetex (R) TI Coating (A,K) UNISYS (A,K) Sperry Corp. (R,K) Tektronix (R,A) Rockwell (K) Leybold Vacuum Systems (A) Finnigan-MAT-US (A) Hewlett Packard (A.R,K) Dupont (A) Eastman Kodak (R) American Type Culture Collection (B) Alcolac International (C) Consarc (A) Carl Zeis -U.Ss (K) Cerberus (LTD) (A) Electronic Assiciates (R) International Computer Systems Bechtel (K) EZ Logic Data Systems,Inc. (R) Canberra Industries Inc. (A) Axel Electronics Inc. (A) (Translated from German magazine, http://www.taz.de/">Die Tageszeitung.)

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