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Article: U.N. aid feeds Iraqi weapons program: a Department of Energy report reveals that Saddam Hussein is exploiting the U.N. oil-for-food program to enhance his weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities. (World: Saddam Hussein).(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- December 31, 2001
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Iraq may have been able to boost its development of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), including deadly nerve agents such as VX gas, by purchasing dual-use chemicals and equipment bought under the auspices of the U.N. oil-for-food (OFF) program, according to an official U.S. government study just leaked to INSIGHT.
The study's findings were known to the Bush administration before it bowed on Nov. 30 to Russian pressure and agreed to a six-month extension of the U.N. program that allows Baghdad to sell oil in exchange for food, medicine and other humanitarian goods.
According to the report, undertaken for the Department of Energy by the International ...