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.
Jy moet seker baie versteurd voel!
Bush is op die regte pad, hoewel op die verkeerde plek. Hy
moet van Moegapie in Zims ontslae raak. Die moegapie-ou
is wat ons destyds 'n bliksem genoem het! Maar ou Satan
Hussein is nie ver van so 'n benaming af nie!
"l&p" skryf in boodskap news:ant221429fc4M3Mb@camerama.demon.nl...
> MASTERS OF WAR
> (Bob Dylan 1963)
>
> For G.W. Busch
>
> Come you masters of war
> You that build the big guns
> You that build the death planes
> You that build the big bombs
> You that hide behind walls
> You that hide behind desks
> I just want you to know
> I can see through your masks
>
> You that never done nothing
> But build to destroy
> You play with my world
> Like it's your little toy
> You put a gun in my hand
> And you hide from my eyes
> And you turn and run farther
> When the fast bullets fly
>
> Like Judas of old
> You lie and decieve
> A war can be won
> You want me to believe
> But Isee through your eyes
> And I see through your brain
> Like Isee through the water
> That runs down my drain
>
> You fasten all the triggers
> For the others to fire
> Then you set back and watch
> When the death counts get higher
> Now you hide in your mansion
> As young people's blood
> Flows out of their bodies
> And is burried in the mud
>
> You've thrown the worst fear
> That can ever be hurled
> Fear to bring children
> Into the world
> For threatening my baby
> Unborn and unnamed
> You ain't worth the blood
> That runs in your vains
>
> How much do I know
> To talk out of turn
> You might say that I'm young
> You might say I'm unlearned
> But there is one thing I know
> Though I'm younger than you
> Even JESUS would never
> Forgive what you do
>
> Now let me ask you one question
> Is your money that good
> Will it buy you forgiveness
> Do you think that it could
> Ithink you will find
> When your deah takes his toll
> All the money you made
> Will never buy back your soul
>
> And Ihope that you die
> And your death'll come soon
> I follow your casket
> On a pale afternoon
> And I'll watch while you're lowered
> Down to your death bed
> And I'll stand over your grave
> Till I'm sure you're dead
>
Diegene wat hulself vandeesweek ontstel het oor Minister Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang se uitsprake oor Zimbabwe, waarin sy Zanu-PF as 'n
"suster-bevrydingsbeweging" bestempel het en haar steun toegesê het
aan "grondhervorming" in dié land, misgis hulle deeglik oor die aard
van die ANC. Die verbasende is nie dat Tshabalala-Msimang gesê het
wat sy gesê het nie, maar dat die ANC self nie reeds Mugabe se metodes
in Suid-Afrika toepas nie.
Afrika-bevrydingsbewegings het oor die afgelope veertig jaar bewys dat
hulle byna sonder uitsondering in staat is om hele lande te vernietig.
Mosambiek, Angola, Zambië, Tanzanië, Ghana, die Kongo, en nou ook
Zimbabwe, almal lande wat onder koloniale heerskappy oor
vooruitstrewende ekonomieë beskik het, is deur bevrydingsbewegings op
hul knieë gedwing.
Die verskynsel van die bevrydingsbeweging kan nie natuurlik nie los
gesien word van die Koue Oorlog nie. Trouens, die meeste van hierdie
organisasies, soos Zanu-PF, die ANC, Frelimo, die MPLA, ens., is
finansieel en andersins gerugsteun deur òf die Sowjet-Unie òf deur die
Volksrepubliek van China. Intussen het die Berlynse muur geval, maar
het die meeste bevrydingsbewegings bly voortbestaan. In die geval van
die ANC is sy oorspronklik Marxisties-Leninistiese ideologie inderhaas
laat vaar sodat Suid-Afrika vandag 'n regering het wat enersyds sy
sosialistiese en "linkse" aard bevestig, maar andersyds 'n
neo-Thatcheristiese fiskale en monetêre beleid handhaaf onder mnr.
Trevor Manuel.
Terwyl die ANC noodgedwonge 'n doktrine soos die diktatuur van die
proletariaat moes laat vaar, kon dit egter nie afstand doen van die
wese van sy ideologie rondom die bevrydingsmite nie. Terwyl die NP
vrywillig die mag aan die ANC oorhandig het, is die amptelike weergawe
egter dat dit tydens 'n soort militêre oorwinning behaal is.
Dit is hierdie fundamentele teenstrydigheid waarop die ANC gegrond is,
wat dit 'n uiters onvoorspelbare en uiteindelik gevaarlike organisasie
maak, soortgelyk aan die susterbeweging Zanu-PF. Die konstante
gebruik van die frase "nasionale revolusie" wat nou al soveel inslag
gevind het dat dit selfs klakkeloos herhaal word deur die
Afrikaanstalige pers asof dit eintlik ontdaan is van betekenis, is 'n
nuttige herinnering aan die ideologiese fondament van die ANC.
In terme van die klassieke Marxisme-Leninisme vind daar eers 'n
nasionale demokratiese revolusie of "burgerlike omwenteling" plaas,
waarna die "maatskaplike revolusie" of "proletariese omwenteling"
volg. Binne ANC-denke is die gedagte van 'n klasserevolusie egter
grotendeels vervang deur die idee van 'n rasserevolusie of soos dit
genoem word, "transformasie". Terwyl sommige terme verander het, was
daar egter tot dusver geen wesentlike vordering in die wêreldbeskouing
van die ANC nie, wat steeds die revolusie as grondliggende
uitgangspunt het.
Soos in Zimbabwe, is daar in Suid-Afrika aansienlike druk om
"grondhervorming" te laat plaasvind en om groot dele van die ekonomie
in die hande van swart apparatjieks wat bande met die regerende party
handhaaf, te plaas. Hierdie revolusie staan maar nog in sy
kinderskoene.
Tot dusver is geen bevrydingsbeweging in Suider-Afrika nog ontsetel
voordat die betrokke land nie eers die totale vernietiging van sy
ekonomie en infrastruktuur, asook dikwels hongersnood, beleef het nie.
Gegewe die volslae mislukking van hierdie "bevrydingspolitiek" wat in
'n groot mate op Oos-Europese benaderings gesteun het, kan 'n mens
hoop dat Suid-Afrika nie noodwendig dieselfde paadjie hoef te loop
alvorens daar regeringsverandering plaasvind nie.
Om die aftakeling van die land in die naam van "bevryding" te stuit,
gaan egter 'n veel meer energieke teenbeweging verg as enigiets wat
die bestaande politieke opposisie in Suid-Afrika kon monster. Ten
eerste moet daar besef word dat die ANC 'n anachronisme is net soos
die voormalige Kommunistiese Party van mnr. Erich Hoenecker in
Oos-Duitsland. Eintlik moes dit van die toneel verdwyn het ná 1989,
maar danksy die reeks flaters van die voormalige Nasionale Party is
dit op die historiese hartlongmasjien geplaas en kon dit selfs by
gebrek aan enige alternatief in Suid-Afrika, steun kry onder swart
Suid-Afrikaners wat weens 'n gebrek aan politieke ervaring tans 'n
beweging ondersteun wat potensieel die land oor dieselfde afgrond kan
dwing as Zanu-PF.
Daar behoort geen kompromie met hierdie politieke dinosourus aangegaan
te word nie. Een van die grootste leemtes in die SA politiek is die
gebrek aan daadwerklike historiese kritiek op die ANC wat sy bande met
die voormalige totalitêre bewinde in Oos-Europa blootlê, sy steun aan
die Sowjet-Unie tydens laasgenoemde se inval in die toenmalige
Tsjeggo-Slowakye, asook sy gebruik van stedelike terreur en
intimidasie om sy doelwitte te bereik. Dit ly geen twyfel dat ons hier
met 'n totalitêre beweging te make het wat enige oomblik tot dieselfde
vergrype as die Mugabe-bewind kan oorgaan nie.
Daar is 'n groot probleem met die politieke kultuur in Suid-Afrika, en
veral die media wat nog altyd geneig was om die maghebber na te praat.
Veral in die Afrikaanse pers tref mens patetiese ophemelings van die
ANC aan, en 'n soort oëverblindery om die werklike en gestelde proses
van revolusie waarin die land verkeer, te verdoesel.
Hoe lank nog gaan die skyn van demokrasie in Suid-Afrika kan
voortduur, voordat die ware gesig van die ANC, 'n monster uit die dae
van die Koue Oorlog, te voorskyn kom?
Ok. dis net vir dié wat van Engelse humor hou.
--
Medical Officer: How are your bowels working?
Recruit: Haven't been issued with any, Sir.
M.O.: I mean are you constipated?
Recruit: No, Sir, I volnteered.
M.O.: Heavens, Man, don't you know the King's English?
Recruit: No, Sir, is he?
--
So van tyd tot tyd moet 'n mens die volk opvoed, ophef en so aan. Vir
hierdie doel, en nie uit gewoonte nie, plaas ek graag die volgende hogere
poësie, geskryf deur die keur van Engelse digters.
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