ECO-TERRORES - How Saddam Got Weapons of Mass Destruction: [...] In presenting the Joint Intelligence Committee assessment - the first of its kind to be released to the public - Prime Minister Tony Blair emphasized that "Iraq is preparing plans to conceal evidence of these weapons, including documents, from renewed inspections," explaining the cynicism with which Saddam's promises to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq has been greeted in Washington and London.
Saddam Hussein's European Helpers
Agco SA (France) — farm equipment ($24.5 million)
Alcatel CIT (France) — telecommunications equipment ($37.4 million)
ALLDOS Technique de Dosage (France) — specialized pumps ($1.6 million)
BWT France SA (France) — U.V. disinfection equipment ($5.5 million)
Envirotech Pump Systems (France) — Specialized pumps and spare parts ($25 million)
Hexacorp (France) — water chillers ($2.9 million)
Irrifrance (France) — agricultural sprayers, large reactor vessels ($8.3 million)
Levant Overseas Development Ltd. (France) — insecticide, chemicals, unidentified spare parts (11 contracts, $9.5 million)
Liebherr (Germany) — excavators, mobile cranes ($14 million)
Pompes-Salmson (France) — specialized pumps ($1.7 million)
Potain SA (France) — tower cranes ($6.5 million)
Renault Vehicules Industriels (France) — heavy trucks, transporters ($25.5 million)
Schneider Electric (France) — controllers ($3 million)
Sofrag Alia Development (France) — well-logging units ($1 million)
Siemens SAS (France) — pumps, spares, telecommunications gear ($4.92 million)
Siemens Medical (Germany) — medical equipment, linear accelerators ($12.7 million)
Siemens AG (Germany) — power-generating equipment ($171 million)
Siemens Information (Italy) —microwave links ($3.1 million)
Siemens Sanayi vfe Ticaret (Turkey) — Telecommunications and power-generation equipment ($58.5 million)
Source: U.N. sanctions committee