Mag die vrede en liefde van ons Hemelse Vader ons oorval.Hiermee wens ek
almal(vriend en vyand) 'n vreedsame Christus fees toe.Vir diegene wat weg
gaan,ry
veilig en vir diegene wat tuis bly,geniet dit...dis die veiligste.
Groete
... ek het jou (gewoonlik silly) reaksies bietjie dopgehou en na die
inhoud gekyk en weet jy wat? Jy is glad nie "naby aan my" nie.
Jou reaksies en menings pas in die joernalistieke omgewing soos 'n
draadkar in 'n grand prix.
Jy het duidelik geen insig eers in hoe 'n koerant werk nie, laat staan
nog die intellektuele omgewing wat dit skep.
So, sorry ou Klipdrif-suiger, jy's uitgevang.
Nie aleen 'n dik lafaard nie, maar ook 'n liegbek, he?
The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program
Even before Iraq released its weapons-program dossier on 7 December
2002, it was said that the report would name the corporations that
supplied Iraq with the equipment and other material it needed to
develop biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Soon after the
report was released, those suspicions were confirmed. Sources who had
seen the report said that it identified suppliers from the US, UK,
Germany, France, China, and elsewhere.
Now, that part of the report has been leaked. The leftist German daily
newspaper Die Tageszeitung received portions of the original,
uncensored 12,000-page dossier. (The names of the corporations have
been blacked out of the version of the report given to the ten
non-permanent members of the Security Council.) The paper has printed
the list, presented below.
[read more about the leak at the Independent (London) Financial Times,
the Guardian (London), and the Associated Press (the only US news
outlet to touch the story, albeit in an unrevealing article)]
Key
A = nuclear weapon program
B = biological weapon program
C = chemical weapon program
R = rocket program
K = conventional weapons, military logistics, supplies at the Iraqi
Ministry of Defense, and building of military plants
USA
1. Honeywell (R, K)
2. Spectra Physics (K)
3. Semetex (R)
4. TI Coating (A, K)
5. Unisys (A, K)
6. Sperry Corp. (R, K)
7. Tektronix (R, A)
8. Rockwell (K)
9. Leybold Vacuum Systems (A)
10. Finnigan-MAT-US (A)
11. Hewlett-Packard (A, R, K)
12. Dupont (A)
13. Eastman Kodak (R)
14. American Type Culture Collection (B)
15. Alcolac International (C)
16. Consarc (A)
17. Carl Zeiss - U.S (K)
18. Cerberus (LTD) (A)
19. Electronic Associates (R)
20. International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
21. Bechtel (K)
22. EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. (R)
23. Canberra Industries Inc. (A)
24. Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
"In addition to these 24 companies home-based in the USA are 50
subsidiaries of foreign enterprises which conducted their arms
business with Iraq from within the US. Also designated as suppliers
for Iraq's arms programs (A, B, C & R) are the US Ministries of
Defense, Energy, Trade and Agriculture as well as the Lawrence
Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories."
China
1. China Wanbao Engineering Company (A, C, K)
2. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (K)
3. China State Missile Company (R)
France
1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (A)
2. Sciaky (A)
3. Thomson CSF (A, K)
4. Aerospatiale and Matra Espace (R)
5. Cerbag (A)
6. Protec SA (C)
7. Thales Group (A)
8. Societé Général pour les Techniques Nouvelles (A)
Great Britain
1. Euromac Ltd-Uk (A)
2. C. Plath-Nuclear (A)
3. Endshire Export Marketing (A)
4. International Computer Systems (A, R, K)
5. MEED International (A, C)
6. Walter Somers Ltd. (R)
7. International Computer Limited (A, K)
8. Matrix Churchill Corp. (A)
9. Ali Ashour Daghir (A)
10. International Military Services (R) (part of the UK Ministry of
Defence)
11. Sheffield Forgemasters (R)
12. Technology Development Group (R)
13. International Signal and Control (R)
14. Terex Corporation (R)
15. Inwako (A)
16. TMG Engineering (K)
17. XYY Options, Inc (A)
USSR/Russia
1. Soviet State Missile Co. (R)
2. Niikhism (R)
3. Mars Rotor (R)
4. Livinvest (R)
5. Russia Aviatin Trading House (K)
6. Amsar Trading (K)
Japan
1. Fanuc (A)
2. Hammamatsu Photonics KK (A)
3. NEC (A)
4. Osaka (A)
5. Waida (A)
The Netherlands
1.Melchemie B.V. (C)
2. KBS Holland B.V. (C)
3. Delft Instruments N.V. (K)
Belgium
1. Boehler Edelstahl (A)
2. NU Kraft Mercantile Corporation (C)
3. OIP Instrubel (K)
4. Phillips Petroleum (C)
5. Poudries Réunies Belge SA (R)
6. Sebatra (A)
7. Space Research Corp. (R)
Spain
1. Donabat (R)
2. Treblam (C)
3. Zayer (A)
Sweden
1. ABB (A)
2. Saab-Scania (R)
Source: Die Tageszeitung, No. 6934, 19 Dec 2002, page 3. See the
original in German.
Note: The 80 German companies named in the dossier were not included
in this list.
Trend describes a memorable occasion in which the poet and Manuel de
Falla were present. After a concert given in honour ad Falla at the
Arts Club by Angel Barrios's Trio Iberia, the Englishman accompanied a
group of Granadine acquaintances up the steep streets of the Albaicin
to the magnificent villa (the Carmen de Alonso Cano) owned by Fernando
Vilchez, already a good friend of Lorca and soon to be of Falla There
in the garden, beneath the stars, the musicians had repeated part of
their programme:
"Before leaving the Carmen, our host made us follow him upstairs to
another veranda, just below the roof. Here we were above the tops of
the cypresses, and a vast panorama presented itself: the curved backs
of the Sierra Nevada, the shadowy outline of the Alhambra Hill and its
palaces, the greenish violet of the white walls bathed in moonlight
with the rose-coloured blotches of the not too frequent lamps, the
distant chimes, the bells to regulate irrigation, the gentle murmur of
falling water. We shouted for the music of Falla. And then, when the
musicians had played till they were tired, a poet recited in a ringing
voice an ode to the city of Granada.
"His voice rose as image succeeded image and his astonishing flow of
rhetoric fell upon the stillness. What did it matter, he concluded,
that the glories of the Alhambra were departed if it were possible to
live again such nights as this, equal to, if not surpassing, any of
the Thousand and One! He ended, and the silence surged softly
backwards. Then the clock struck four, and we stumbled down into the
town over the ungainly cobbles and climbed up to the Alhambra."
The poet, as Trend made clear in his many subsequent versions of this
description, was Federico Garcia Lorca.
Dit was in 1919
Uit die boek: Federico Garcia Lorca deur ian Gibson.