Posted on 10/24/2006 12:55:08 PM PDT by jveritas
It is a powerful document, no doubt about it.
Do you think the timing of this is tied to 9-11-01 at all?
"This should be headline material for all the networks"
They don't want people to look.
That is where WE come in.
And WE can get around them now with places like Free Republic.
The Looney Left would not believe that Saddam had WMD or precursors to make WMD or even programs for WMD unless they see a video of Saddam himself on Chemical Weapons and nuclear reactors, and of course the video must be dated 2002-2003 else it will not be relevant for them.
Thank you very much.
“Dr. Jorg Streitferdt, in-house counsel for Degussa, AG, based in Frankfurt, Germany, which owned Leybold at the time, said the companies did sell some equipment that ended up in Iraq's nuclear program, and were later subjected to a series of investigations, including a criminal inquiry by Germany.
He noted that Degussa was exonerated on the charges of selling vacuum furnaces to Iraq, largely because West Germany did not require export licenses at that time for such sales. Though Degussa executives suspected that Iraq might use the equipment for military purposes given the ongoing Iran-Iraq war, he added, they did not know that Iraq wanted it for a nuclear program.
"DeGussa and Leybold did not know what the equipment was for," Streitferdt said. "The whole world did not know what Iraq was about to do. We have learned our lesson and now have very tough internal controls on our exports."
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/iraqi_defector.html
You're exactly right. If enough FReepers here took the small amount of time it takes to email the important finds to even 5 or 6 news sources I believe it would make a difference.
"According to the Report of the Thirteenth IAEA On-Site Inspection in Iraq, the inspectors found two oxidation furnaces made by Degussa, and some ancillary equipment, including vacuum pumps and control systems, that were manufactured by Leybold, a German firm. Iraq had used a small oxidation furnace for research and development. A production-size furnace was still in packing crates. The inspectors found a chart at the furnace site that recorded temperatures and time periods consistent with Stemmler's process.
Stemmler told me that he had not contactedDegussa . According to company officials, the contact was made by H and H and Iraqi procurement agents. The sale of the furnaces was arranged by H and H, although H and H personnel did not appear to know what the technical requirements of either the furnace or the ancillary equipment were. During meetings at the two companies, the Iraqis were more informed about the technical specifications than were the H and H people.
Degussa and Leybold officials say they did not realize that the equipment was going to be used to manufacture centrifuges.They said that the personnel involved in filling the original orders from MAN were no longer with their companies, and that the employees who filled the Iraqi order had no experience with centrifuges. Urenco and MAN stopped manufacturing maraging steel rotors several years ago, eliminating their need for large oxidation furnaces."
http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=dec93albrighta>
Iraq's UN report says 86 German firms did business there: press Monday,
Iraq's arms report to the United Nations shows that more than 80 German companies have done business with Baghdad since the 1970s and that some have contravened a UN embargo, according to a German newspaper.
In its Tuesday edition, the daily Tageszeitung said that the companies included public and private research laboratories and firms which supplied whole systems or components for weapons of mass destruction.
Citing what it claimed were parts of the report, the newspaper said some of the 86 companies that had been doing business in Iraq since around 1975 had continued to do so at least up until 2001.
Exactly, that is why this document is very important.
nuclear mujahideen ping
Something else for the Treason Media to ignore.
Thanks bump.
Good job, jveritas. As usual.
Why the president isn't talking about these translations will forever remain a mystery.
What does David Kay, Hans Blix, and Scott Ritter have to say about these doc's?
How come they are not getting any play anyway. Its like nobody cares.
Keep it up. The record is important. Just like Able Danger.
Great work...
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