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Saddam Gets His Weapons Easily


(Times - UK) Marie Colvin - Saddam Hussein is contemptuously flouting UN sanctions on a huge scale. A Middle Eastern businessman, one of a network of middlemen supplying the Baghdad dictator with anything he needs, has revealed how military equipment and items for the weapons of mass destruction program are shipped into Iraq with impunity. The Iraqi dictator has since 1992 imported virtually any prohibited item and, through a clever fraud, obtained oil revenue supposedly blocked for use only in the UN oil-for-food program. The businessman said one of Baghdad's most recent requests was for 160 tons of three chemicals that are used as a propellant for missiles.
2002-10-08 00:00:00
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