UNDER the successive presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the USA sold
nuclear,
chemical and
biological weapons technology to Saddam Hussein.
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These included two batches of
anthrax and two batches of
botulism being sent to the Iraqi ministry of higher education on May 2, 1986; one batch each of
salmonella and
E.Coli sent to the Iraqi state company for drug industries on August 31, 1987.
Other shipments from the US went to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission on July 11, 1988; the department of biology at the University of Basra in November 1989; the department of microbiology at Baghdad University in June 1985; the ministry of health in April 1985 and Officers’ City military complex in Baghdad in March and April 1986.
As well as anthrax and botulism, the USA also sent
West Nile fever,
brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and
clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene.
The shipments even went on after Saddam ordered the gassing of the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which some 5000 people died, in March 1988.<snip>
Other items which were sent by the US to Iraq included
chemical warfare agent precursors, chemical warfare agent production facility plans and technical drawings,
chemical warfare filling equipment,
biological warfare-related materials, missile fabrication equipment and missile system guidance equipment.
13 June 2004
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