Archive for January 4th, 2003

It’s sad when old friends fight

From the Guardian of London:

The Reagan administration and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons “almost daily” against Iran, it was reported yesterday.

— snip —

The US provided less conventional military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredients for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisation in Chile, the report says.

More. Article and photo both via Bartcop.

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 11:48 AM | link
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