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EMAIL THIS | Close British suppliers 'named in Iraqi dossier' By Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Stephen Fidler in London and Peter Spiegel in Washington Published: December 18 2002 19:27 | Last Updated: December 18 2002 19:27 Seventeen British companies are named in Iraq's 12,000-page declaration to the United Nations as having helped Baghdad's weapons programmes, a German newspaper reports on Thursday. According to the Berlin-based Die Tageszeitung, which says it has a copy of parts of the dossier, the companies are among 150 from around the world used by Iraq to develop missiles or nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. But the dossier states that the British companies' activities in Iraq all took place before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, according to the newspaper. The 17 names cited by the newspaper have each previously been publicly identified as suppliers to the programmes in the late 1980s and in 1990. Die Tageszeitung has previously reported that the dossier shows some German companies have co-operated with Iraq more recently. It will report today on what the dossier says about companies based in all five permanent members of the UN Security Council, with evidence it says the dossier shows of heavy recent involvement by Russian weapons-related companies in Iraq. The British list includes at least six companies identified by the US Treasury as Iraqi front companies, including Matrix-Churchill and Endshire Export Marketing. The British foreign office on Thursday would not comment on the disclosures. But the UK government has supported moves in the UN to remove company names from the copies of the dossier to be distributed to non-permanent members of the security council. UN officials have argued this week that removing the names would facilitate future co- operation on Iraq with the companies involved. The 24 US companies named include Hewlett Packard, Honeywell and Rockwell, while the 10 French companies include Thomson-CSF military and Protec. Gary Milhollin, director of the Washington-based Wisconsin Project, which keeps a database on companies that did business with Iraq, said that if the German report was accurate, the declaration about US companies appeared to contain information already known by the west. "All these names are familiar," Mr Milhollin said. "From the Iraqi point of view, if they list a supplier, they have to list what the supplier sold, and they're not going to reveal that if it's something they don't want the US to know about." Related stories Iraq 'has failed to address Unscom' queries' Dec 18 2002 22:57 Preparations in UK boost Iraq speculation Dec 17 2002 21:44 Observer - Europe Dec 17 2002 21:05 Iraq opposition groups extend UK conference Dec 16 2002 23:50 Why Britain is wooing Syria's president Dec 15 2002 22:02 UK sees omissions in Iraqi weapons dossier Dec 15 2002 21:50 Blair signals readiness to act against Iraq Dec 09 2002 23:27 How to stop the disintegration of Iraq Dec 08 2002 19:57 News review: Iraq's move Dec 06 2002 13:49 US and Britain again target Iraqi defences Dec 04 2002 19:56 = requires subscription to FT.com Find this article at: http://news.ft.com/s01/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/ FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1039523799032&p=1012571727172 EMAIL THIS | Close Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
