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Vienna - Iran, and not Saddam Hussein, was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of Kurds and Shiites, said a lawyer for the deposed Iraqi dictator in comments published on Tuesday.
Issam Ghazzawi, who was part of Saddam's defence team, told the daily Die Presse that "Iran is responsible for the murders of the Kurds" killed by poison gas in 1988.
The lawyer was quoted as saying: "Iraq did not possess poison gas at this time."
Ghazzawi reportedly said that Iran also was responsible for the mass killings of Shiites who rose against Saddam in 1991.
More than 100 000 Kurds were estimated to have been killed by Saddam's troops in 1988, including about 5 000 who were gassed to death in the Kurd city of Halabja and 8 000 members of a powerful clan who were reportedly rounded up and shot.
Up to 100 000 Shiites were killed, along with tens of thousands of Kurds, when Saddam moved to stamp out a rebellion after the first Gulf War in 1991.
Originally posted by Souljah
Saddam Killed Kurds with Nerve Gas, Supplied by the Reagan Administration.
Originally posted by deltaboy
maybe u should think about the Russians instead or maybe the French. if we did supplied the materials, he misused it instead, u can make chemical products into weapons of mass destruction with know how by his scientists. farm products most likely.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Did Saddam possess poison chemical gasses or did he not, Souljah?
If he was given those WMDs by the US, then did he not take possession of them?
Did he not release them against the Iranians, Kurds, and Shi'ites?
The United States never supplied chemical weapons to Iraq and after denouncing Iraqi use of CWs on March 5, 1984, created the global system to stop CW precursors from being shipped to Iraq starting on March 30, 1984. The United States took these steps after it was discovered that Al-Haddad Enterprises (Nashville, Tennessee) had shipped 60 tons of DMMP to Iraq. DMMP (dimethyl methylphosphonate) is a nerve gas precursor. Al-Haddad Enterprises appears to have been an Iraqi front company. The owner of Al-Haddad, Sahib Abd al-Amir al-Haddad, is wanted in Germany for attempting to supply weapons to Iraq. Other countries, most notably India and Singapore supplied thousands of tons of precursors to Iraq.
Yet the evidence was nowhere to leave: In December 2002, Iraq's 1,200 page Weapons Declaration revealed a list of Western corporations and countries—as well as individuals—that exported chemical and biological materials to Iraq in the past two decades. Many American names were on the list. Alcolac International, for example, a Maryland company, transported thiodiglycol, a mustard gas precursor, to Iraq. A Tennessee manufacturer contributed large amounts of a chemical used to make sarin, a nerve gas implicated in Gulf War diseases. A full list of those companies and their involvements in Iraq [7] [8].
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. Its purpose is to develop and execute policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities, also to meet the needs of the american people,and end hunger, in America and abroad.
The United States Department of Commerce is a Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903. It was subsequently renamed to the Department of Commerce by President Taft on March 4, 1913, and its bureaus and agencies specializing in labor were transferred to the new Department of Labor.
The mission of the department is to "promote job creation and improved living standards for all Americans by creating an infrastructure that promotes economic growth, technological competitiveness, and sustainable development." Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for business and government decision-making, issuing patents and trademarks, and helping to set industrial standards.
Donald Riegle, Chairman of the Senate committee that made the report, said, "UN inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs." He added, "the executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual -use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record."
Originally posted by Seekerof
Did Saddam possess poison chemical gasses or did he not, Souljah?
If he was given those WMDs by the US, then did he not take possession of them? Did he not release them against the Iranians, Kurds, and Shi'ites?
seekerof
Originally posted by eazy_mas
in Turkey there are slaughter and nobody says anything
Originally posted by twitchy
He sure did, dispersing the gas from American made crop spraying helicopters we sold him as well. Shall I provide references and sources, or are you sufficiently informed on the Iran Contra scandal?
Originally posted by twitchy
He sure did, dispersing the gas from American made crop spraying helicopters we sold him as well.