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[casi] The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program - Why are some of these companies already being considered for reconstruction contracts?




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 This List consisting of reprinted portions of the original, uncensored 12,000 page  Iraq 
weapons-program dossier delivered to the Security Council on the 7th December 2002 which appeared 
in the Berlin Daily Die Tageszeitung on the 19th December 2002.Interestingly the five permanent 
members of the Security Council at the insistence of the U.S blacked out the IDs of these 
corporations in the 3,000 page version of the report they passed on to the other ten non-permanent 
members of the Security Council.

The list presented below names those corporations that supplied Iraq with the equipment and other 
material it needed to develop biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. It does not contain the 
names of any the German companies from the dossier.

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

It identified the following suppliers from:

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 were 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) were the US Departments 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)

Source: Die Tageszeitung, No. 6934, 19 Dec 2002, page 3. Original in German.
Why are some of these companies such as Bechtel already being considered for reconstruction 
contracts - do these people know no shame?
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