According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs chaired by Donald W. Riegle American companies supplied Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear programs, these reports are nearly a decade old.
The Reagan and Bush Administrations approved 771 export licenses for Iraq-239 of these approvals came from the Bush Administration.
This would lend more credibility to the Tageszeitung (Berlin daily) story which lists 24 American companies that enabled Iraq's WMD programs. The list comes from the original Iraqi report to the Security Council before it was censored by the American govn't.
"A - nuclear K - chemical B - biological R -rockets
(missiles)
1)Honeywell (R,K)
2)Spektra 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 Zeis -U.Ss (K)
18)Cerberus (LTD) (A)
19)Electronic Assiciates (R)
20)International Computer Systems
21)Bechtel (K)
22)EZ Logic Data Systems,Inc. (R)
23)Canberra Industries Inc. (A)
24)Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
Additionally to these 24 companies based in the USA, are led in the Iraqi arms report nearly 50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises up , their arms co-operation with the Iraq is operated from the USA. In addition, Ministries for defense, become energy, trade and agriculture as well as the nuclear weapon laboratories Lawrence Livermore. Los Alamos and Sandia are designated as suppliers for the Iraqi arms programs for A-B and C-weapons as well as for rockets.
The list includes 150 foreign companies from America, Britain, Germany and France, that supported Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs."
German involvement outstripped that of all the other countries put together.
