[Paleo Conservative]

What if France has existing deals to send such technology to Iraq (in return for oil)?

Reread post #17. That's what we do if the French are supplying this technology to Iraq.

[Paleo Conservative]

This link should work better.

Reread post #17

[bonesmccoy]

i just did a google search for the Pasteur Institute. I was not aware that the Pasteur Institute had a link to Iran.

http://www.pasteur.ac.ir/accredition.htm

More importantly, I just did a search for Pasteur Institute and Iraq... this is what I found:

http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/031503/0315weapons.html

"Iraq links germs for weapons to U.S., French organizations
By Philip Shenon

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Saturday, March 15, 2003

WASHINGTON — Iraq has identified a Virginia-based biological supply house and a French scientific institute as the sources of all the foreign germ samples that it used to create the biological weapons that are still believed to be in Iraq's arsenal, according to U.S. officials and foreign diplomats who have reviewed Iraq's latest weapons declaration to the United Nations."