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Prosecutors said on Tuesday they will charge a Dutch chemicals dealer as an accomplice to genocide for supplying Saddam Hussein with lethal chemicals used in the 1988 chemical attack on a Kurdish town that killed an estimated 5,000 civilians.
Originally posted by Corinthas
A dutch guy... not surprizing.. they'd sell anything to anyone. Dutch are all about money and gimme gimme me me me! They make great capitalists..
Originally posted by Corinthas
Hey blobber didn't you know the original name for the US of A was doublestandardland?
I was just commenting on dutch buisiness sense 9as it is known to capitalists) or just greed (to normal folks). I live in the netherlands btw...
Another thing blobber... whats with the signature? I dont get it... plese explain...
as posted by blobber
"...Ministry of Defense. Obviously another military organization. It got over $2 million worth of computers, over $1 million worth of guidance equipment, and almost $300,000 worth of navigation, radar, and airborne communication equipment. Many of these items were approved without referral to the Pentagon, even though the buyer was clearly a military enterprise."
The U.S., which followed developments in the Iran-Iraq war with extraordinary intensity, had intelligence confirming Iran's accusations, and describing Iraq's "almost daily" use of chemical weapons, concurrent with its policy review and decision to support Iraq in the war [Document 24]. The intelligence indicated that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces, and, according to a November 1983 memo, against "Kurdish insurgents" as well [Document 25].
What was the Reagan administration's response? A State Department account indicates that the administration had decided to limit its "efforts against the Iraqi CW program to close monitoring because of our strict neutrality in the Gulf war, the sensitivity of sources, and the low probability of achieving desired results." But the department noted in late November 1983 that "with the essential assistance of foreign firms, Iraq ha[d] become able to deploy and use CW and probably has built up large reserves of CW for further use. Given its desperation to end the war, Iraq may again use lethal or incapacitating CW, particularly if Iran threatens to break through Iraqi lines in a large-scale attack" [Document 25]. The State Department argued that the U.S. needed to respond in some way to maintain the credibility of its official opposition to chemical warfare, and recommended that the National Security Council discuss the issue.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Seems to me to be the matter of conventional 'items'. As such, the US sold Iraq/Saddam less than 1-5% conventional equipment and items (1% per the Stockholm International Peach Research Institute).
as posted by blobber
PS I have a question of a different kind, why is my reply under your thread starter locked? I cannot edit it anymore, and those underlines make it "ugly" (probably went wrong when I edited it).
Originally posted by Countermeasures
I believe the 'edit' feature is automatically 'locked' after a lapse of 2 hours, meaning that you have a window of two hours to make an edit, etc.
Just ask a mod of this forum or a sup-mod to make the edit change for you...in the case of the underline issue.
seekerof
Originally posted by Corinthas
A dutch guy... not surprizing.. they'd sell anything to anyone. Dutch are all about money and gimme gimme me me me! They make great capitalists..
Originally posted by Countermeasures
You believe it's espionage, well, thats the official story....
TRUE, Dr. Khan learned the ropes of centrifuging in dutch laboratories in the 70's
But Dutch companies kept selling nuclear related materials until the mid-eighties, rather than being appaled by the the theft of sensitive knowledge some Dutch guys decided to make a good buck out of it....
[edit on 7-12-2004 by Countermeasures]