China Linked To Iraq Bio-Weapons

London The Sunday Times ^ | 5-25-03 | Matthew Campbell

[tallhappy]

London The Sunday Times 25 May 03

[Report by Matthew Campbell in Baghdad: "China Linked To Iraq Bio-Weapons"]

Components for Saddam Husayn's biological weapons programme were slipped into Iraq under Chinese diplomatic cover, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times in Baghdad.

The documents refer to 137 kilograms of laboratory chemicals being channelled to Iraq from China in the guise of medical supplies.

The cargo, flown to Jordan on May 31, 1995, was listed as "medicine" in a Jordanian customs report and the recipient was described as "Chinese embassy", Amman.

Correspondence found in Baghdad shows that the 16 boxes contained chemicals - including some described by the supplier as "hazardous products" that should be stowed with extreme caution.

A former Iraqi intelligence agent familiar with the deal said that from Amman the cargo was collected by Chinese diplomats based at the embassy in Baghdad. They escorted it in embassy vehicles across the border from Jordan to the Iraqi capital.

From the Chinese embassy in Baghdad the goods were delivered in several batches to the car boot of an Iraqi intelligence operative who hid them in his home to prevent their discovery by United Nations weapons inspectors. From time to time he delivered small quantities to a research commission overseeing the biological weapons programme.

The Iraqi source said that Baghdad went to great lengths to try to influence the Chinese whose power of veto on the UN security council made them one of the leading players in Iraq's conflict with America.

To this end, Iraqi intelligence never missed an opportunity to gather potential blackmail material. The transfer of chemicals from the Chinese embassy vehicle to the Iraqi's car was secretly filmed by Iraqi agents from a department charged with monitoring the foreign diplomatic community.

[adam_az]

But - But - CNN refers to China as our allies!!!

How could this be!!!

Next thing you know, they'll be saying our ally France was double-dealing, too.

[WarSlut]

John HK... paging John HK... those nasty hegemon are bad-mouthing Mother China again...

[EGPWS]

I'm SHOCKED!!

[piasa]

fyi

[b4its2late]

The Iraqi source said that Baghdad went to great lengths to try to influence the Chinese whose power of veto on the UN security council made them one of the leading players in Iraq's conflict with America.

Great post.

The Iraqis must've done the same thing with the Frenchies and the Krauts.

[Calpernia]

No mention in the article as to where these materials are now. Do we know where this lab(s) is? Where these materials smuggled out?

Things that make you go hmmmmm.

[Dark Wing]

I am a little surprised by this development. I expected a nuclear/chemical connection. A Biowar connection scares the snot out of me.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP !*

[Calpernia]

Makes you really wonder about SARs too.

[Gritty]

To this end, Iraqi intelligence never missed an opportunity to gather potential blackmail material.

I wonder what blackmail Iraq had on our previous, uh, President?

[lelio]

But - But - CNN refers to China as our allies!!!
Its not just CNN, its every company that manufacturers its goods in that country. There's plenty of people to point fingers at.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this cold gun. Cold because it was done during the Clintoon years.

[Grampa Dave]

FYI!

As an old man, I can't remember who was our president in 1995.

Was that our first Black President, the friend of the ChiComs, the Clintoon?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'm SHOCKED!!

[Domestic Church]

Certainly puts a bigger question mark behind SARS.

[Starrgaizr]

Iraqi intelligence never missed an opportunity to gather potential blackmail material

Where is the evidence on Scott Ritter?

[Miss Marple]

Ritter's been awfully quiet the last week or so, hasn't he?

[Starrgaizr]

If evidence does surface that Ritter was blackmailed into turning, he should be tried for treason. Even if he was working through the UN, afterwards he was a private US citizen who made common cause with the enemy, and he played a damaging role via his former inspector credibility.

[Grampa Dave]

Ritter and UDay were probably buddies when they visited prisons and schools in Iraq with young girls in them. Hopefully UDay didn't burn all of the photos and videos of the fun times he and Ritter had in Iraq.