Seventeen British companies who supplied Iraq with nuclear, biological, chemical, rocket and conventional weapons technology are to be investigated and could face prosecution following a Sunday Herald investigation.
One of the companies is International Military Services, a part of the Ministry of Defence, which sold rocket technology to Iraq. The companies were named by Iraq in a 12,000 page dossier submitted to the U.N. in December. The Security Council agreed to U.S. requests to censor 8000 pages - including sections naming western businesses which aided Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme.
The five permanent members of the security council - Britain, France, Russia, America and China - are named as allowing companies to sell weapons technology to Iraq.
The dossier claims 24 U.S. firms sold Iraq weapons. Hewlett-Packard sold nuclear and rocket technology; Dupont sold nuclear technology and Eastman Kodak sold rocket capabilities. The dossier also says some “50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises conducted their arms business with Iraq from the U.S.”.
It claims the U.S. Ministries of Defence, Energy, Trade and Agriculture and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, supplied Iraq with WMD technology.
One of the companies is International Military Services, a part of the Ministry of Defence, which sold rocket technology to Iraq. The companies were named by Iraq in a 12,000 page dossier submitted to the U.N. in December. The Security Council agreed to U.S. requests to censor 8000 pages - including sections naming western businesses which aided Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme.
The five permanent members of the security council - Britain, France, Russia, America and China - are named as allowing companies to sell weapons technology to Iraq.
The dossier claims 24 U.S. firms sold Iraq weapons. Hewlett-Packard sold nuclear and rocket technology; Dupont sold nuclear technology and Eastman Kodak sold rocket capabilities. The dossier also says some “50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises conducted their arms business with Iraq from the U.S.”.
It claims the U.S. Ministries of Defence, Energy, Trade and Agriculture and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, supplied Iraq with WMD technology.