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To: DB

I think we have our choice: France and/or Germany.


15 posted on 05/20/2004 12:06:23 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla

Russia would be highest on my list. Then France and Germany in that order.


18 posted on 05/20/2004 12:11:17 PM PDT by DB (©)
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To: mewzilla

And possibly North Korea...


22 posted on 05/20/2004 12:15:22 PM PDT by DB (©)
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To: mewzilla
FWIW, from this link. From the link:

Supplier: Sahib Abd Amir Haddad

Exporting Country:

Company/Individual: Sahib Abd Amir Haddad

Also Known As: Sahib Al-Haddad or Sahib Abd Al Amir al-Haddad

Program: Military, possibly chemical

Date Occurred: late 1990s, 2000

Activity Memo: Iraqi-born citizen of the United States; media reports, citing American and European law-enforcement officials, name him as a key middleman for Saddam Hussein in illegal weapons purchases; reportedly according to American and European law-enforcement officials, has attempted to buy weapons and equipment for Iraq since 2000, including rockets, machine guns and parts for Iraq's Russian-made MIG jets; reportedly arrested in November 2002 in Bulgaria and awaiting extradition to Germany, where he is charged with conspiring in th elate 1990s with two Germany men to purchase equipment for Iraq for the manufacture of a giant "supergun" cannon capable of firing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons up to 35 miles; according to Germany prosecutors, Haddad is the chief suspect in the affair; he received directions and a list of goods to procure from Iraq and took delivery of the goods in Jordan; the Germans involved, Bernd Schompeter and Willi Heinz Ribbeck, were convicted on January 31, 2003 of breaking German arms export laws and violating the U.N. embargo for their role in the affair; Haddad reportedly ran a commodities firm, Al-Haddad Brothers Enterprises, which supplied 60 tons of precursor chemical for the making of sarin gas, according to disclosure statements filed by the Iraqi government with the United Nations after the Persian Gulf war; a shipment of 1,100 pounds of potassium fluoride, another sarin precursor, organized by Haddad's firm and destined for the Iraqi Ministry of Pesticides in Baghdad, was reportedly seized by customs officials at Kennedy International Airport in New York in March 1984; the firm is reportedly on a list, supplied by Iraq to the United Nations as part of its December 7, 2002 weapons declaration, of 31 major foreign suppliers of chemicals and equipment for the Iraqi chemical weapons program; the firm reportedly collapsed in the mid-1990s, and Haddad left the United States for the Middle East.

Gives one an idea what we're dealing with. Info like this ought to be shoved up the nose of anyone maintaining Saddamn had no WMDs. And look at the date.

23 posted on 05/20/2004 12:17:45 PM PDT by mewzilla
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