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German firms helped Assad family build Syrian chemical weapons program | |
2015-01-24 | |
[Jpost] German companies helped the Syrian regime of the late Hafez Assad and his son, current President Bashar Assad, produce its chemical weapons program, according to declassified documents whose contents were revealed on Friday by the German weekly Der Spiegel. Citing Foreign Ministry files that recently came to light by dint of the expiration of a 30-year embargo, Der Spiegel says that German companies knowingly colluded with Syrian and Iraqi government officials, helping them build a covert chemical weapons program under the guise of âagricultural and medical research.â Still trying to solve the Jewish Problem?
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Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
#6 This is just to rich for words... |
Posted by: borgboy 2015-01-24 16:45 |
#5 Speaking of Germans and chemistry. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-24 13:11 |
#4 Ah, but Iraq had Russian help. Wonder if the Russians picked up the German maintenance contract? |
Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-24 11:57 |
#3 It was the same with Iraq. |
Posted by: Lionel Thoth9784 2015-01-24 06:30 |
#2 Spinoff from the Volkswagen Group. Their advertising slogan (they also dabble in small reactors): Farfromnukkin' |
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-01-24 06:06 |
#1 Yes General Stauffen, I am happy to report that the UNSCOM inspectors have found none of the German, Swiss, Italian, or French research equipment here at the Ibn-al-Haytham Research and Studies Center . The German Company Karl Kolb that is specialized in equipping chemical laboratories played a crucial role in supplying the defunct regime over the past 30 years with toxic chemical materials through a middleman who helped Dr Amir al-Sa'di. Al-Sa'di prepared for his doctorate in chemistry in this institution and married a German woman. He worked in the Iraqi chemical project and was in charge of coordinating the defunct regime's transactions and requirements with the management of the Karl Kolb company. In October 1985, the operations of this company ceased by order of the German judiciary after it sold Iraq two electronic systems that test toxic gas inhalation levels. These are used in closed gas chambers where they measure toxic gas reactions with biological tissues. They also measure the level of their effect on animals, such as dogs, donkeys, and mules as well as humans. These gases were tested on prisoners that opposed the Iraqi regime. Link |
Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-24 03:39 |