Posted on 01/21/2003 8:27:34 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
ARMAMENT
Things, which make bumm
A US Iraqi, when desired the German law in Sofia arrested, shows itself as one of the umtriebigsten buyers Saddams.
Dit Arab businessman Sahib Abd aluminium-Amir aluminium-Haddad, 59, particularly belongs to that fixing its industry. In its offices, one in the Jordanian Amman, a further obviously directly in Bagdad, held it only rarely the native Iraqi and American citizen. Its clients with new desires constantly bombarded it. In order to fulfill it, Haddad lined a Shoppingtour up to the other one.
Thus is first of all conclusion. Briefly after Haddad landed on 25 November against 18.30 o'clock with Turkish airlines TK 1429 on the airport in Sofia, the border officials signed him after a view into the computer from the queue. The German law had asked over interpole world-wide for the arrest Haddads.
Since then the man sits in the Sofioter central prison in custody pending extradition, and which is Germans around a hope enriches to get to know on which ways the Iraqi regime provided Hightech for the rearmament in the past years. Because Haddad, of it are convinced Ermittler and Geheimdienstler in Europe and the USA, are from Saddam Husseins important aids with the procurement of war material of all kinds.
On the trace the investigators brought two presumed German accomplices to Haddads: the Pforzheimer engineering graduate Bernd S., 59, a specialist for things, sitting in remand, "bumm in such a way make", against whom before the Mannheimer regional court the process begins in this week, as well as the Mannheimer the businessman Gerold R. its enterprise, the Alriwo GmbH in Mannheim Neckarau should the only German company be, which stands again on recently the list of companies, supplied by Saddam Hussein to the UN, which supported the country. That at least speaks for new sense of reality in Bagdad: When the MIRROR reported for the first time on the case, the national Iraqi news station Ina raged still, that was "lies and deception campaigns zionistischer German civil servant".
In October 2001 the Connection had flown up after months-long determinations Cologne Customs Offices. Bernd S. had then put down in the detention a comprehensive confession and over Saddams commercial traveller had particularly unpacked. "Haddad has close and piercing contacts to all possible Iraqi government agencies", is astonished the Mannheimer senior public prosecutor Hubert job ski and operates therefore with reproduction the distribution procedure of the spectacular catch.
But the law will not be only interested in the man. Even the UN weapon testers already inquired whether Haddad in its Bulgarian cell began to talk. Finally the man seems to be an old acquaintance. The authorities assume the Sahib Abd aluminium-Amir aluminium-Haddad arrested in Sofia is identical to one in former times in the USA living Arab buyer, who purchased already at that time for Saddam.
That managed at that time a commercial firm in the American Nashville (threshing floor lake) and came into the suspicion approximately 60 tons of a chemical to the Iraq to have supplied which can be used for the production of the high-poisonous sarin gas. When the Irakis outeten 1996 in relation to the UN the suppliers, which stood for them with the development of massenvernichtungswaffen to have helped to be supposed, the "aluminium Haddad Trading company" from Nashville also on the list. The Iraqi always denied all reproaches nevertheless.
Enormous business, Bernd S. told to the German Ermittlern, Haddad with the Iraq at that time made, whole manufacturing plants had been supplied. But after the Iraq embargo became effective at the beginning of the nineties, the company went a little later high-indebted into bankruptcy. On it Haddad left the USA briefly and shifted its registered place of business after Amman in Jordan. it is to have offered its large mansion with pool, in which it had lived with its wife and five children, to 1992 for the purchase. From Amman acted the buyer of the dictator untiringly further, was always with a long desire list of all possible goods on the way - of Swiss special machines for the arms technology up to whole tanks.
Thus Bernd S. reported in order Kampfflieger Eratzteile to the investigators that he had traveled with Haddad to the Ukraine, such as gasoline pumps, emergency brakes and all kinds of electronics for the Iraqi Air Force to procure.
The US Iraqi packed, paid smaller parts equal into extra a bought Samsonite suit-case bar and traveled back direction the Near East. Also in Germany, there he even studied some terms, appeared Haddad again and again personally, if the negotiations came to a hold. Health-consciously it is to have completed occasionally still another cure in the noble hunger center upper baptism.
"Haddad", assumes the Mannheimer senior public prosecutor job ski, "is since eh and ever in the business." And a conviction author must be. Saddam Hussein is for him a large leader told he an American newspaper already many years ago: "Kuweit is an Iraqi country."
FELIX SHORT, GEORGE MASCOLO
The company "Al-Haddad Trading Company" was on the list of the 56 international suppliers of equipment and raw materials necessary to manufacture sarin, VX, mustard gas and other chemical agents.
See related story here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/811676/posts
Gulf War veterans to sue alleged Iraq suppliers
Also CNN's story has more details including naming the "Al-Haddad Trading Co.".
Saddam Hussein is for him a large leader told he an American newspaper already many years ago: "Kuweit is an Iraqi country."
And this American citizen, who swore an oath to his adopted country, was working for Saddam and Iraq all along.
Good going Gerhardt...at this rate, YOU'LL have as much credibility as your fellow Saddam lover Scott Ritter.
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