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P R E S S R E L E A S E
Welcome to Iraq Watch!
The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control is proud to announce a new web site, www.IraqWatch.org. With more than 5,000 pages of material, Iraq Watch is a comprehensive repository of open source information about Iraq's mass destruction weapon programs. The site contains a compendium of official documentation on Iraq and two unique databases: first, a list of organizations linked to Iraq's weapon programs; second, a list of foreign companies known to have supplied those programs. These databases already contain more than 500 names, making Iraq Watch the leading source of information in its field.In Iraq Watch you will find:
- Weapon and Political Updates: Continuously updated accounts of Iraq's efforts to build weapons of mass destruction, as well as the international response.
- Weapon profiles: Brief histories of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapon and missile programs, plus articles on specific aspects of those programs.
- Iraqi entities of concern: An open-source list of the Iraqi entities linked to WMD activities.
- Iraq's suppliers: Data on hundreds of foreign companies known to have supplied Iraq with sensitive equipment and know-how.
- UN documents: Full texts of UNSCOM and IAEA inspection reports, UN resolutions, UNMOVIC publications, relevant reports by the Secretary General, plus annexes and distribution plans for the oil-for-food program.
- Government documents: Reports, hearings, legislation, press releases and policy statements by both the United States and foreign governments.
- Controlled items: "Trigger lists" of nuclear, chemical, biological and missile items controlled by the U.N. for export to Iraq.
- Perspectives: Will contain publications by scholars and links to other web sites.
All of Iraq
Watch is word searchable and freely available to the public. For
example, by entering the word "supergun"in the search box (use the "Both
Database Tables" category) you can find the names of sites in Iraq that
helped produce this weapon system and the names of foreign companies that
served as suppliers. You can also click Subscribe to Iraq Watch
to receive special notice of new information on the site, ask questions,
or provide comments.
Point of Contact: Kelly Motz
Editor, Iraq Watch
Kelly@wisconsinproject.org
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| That Ukraine's cabinet approved a deal in 1994 to provide Iraq components for surface-to-surface missiles and a college to train missile experts, according to an Iraqi general. | Search for "Khartron" in the "Suppliers Database Table" category and choose the entry for "Yuri Orshansky and Khartron." | |
| That in 1996 a sensitive plasma spray machine made by Visoky Vacuum (Belarus) turned up in Iraq's Badr State Establishment, which produced components for making Iraqi nuclear weapons before the Gulf War. | Click the "Iraq's suppliers" button and search for "Visoky Vacuum." | |
| That the Yugoslav firms Erglas and Informatika agreed in 1997 to help improve the flight controls of Iraq's MiGs, and to help Iraq detect American stealth fighters and bombers. | Search for "Yugoslavia" under the "Iraq's suppliers" button. Select "Erglas" and "Informatika." | |
| That U.N. inspectors discovered in 1997 that Bulgaria's Elmet Engineering offered to supply more than one million dollars worth of eavesdropping equipment to a plant linked to Iraqi intelligence, and that Germany's Mena-Tracon offered to sell the plant equipment for tapping telephone and fax lines. | Click the "Iraq's suppliers" button and type "Elmet" in the search box. Do the same for "Mena-Tracon." | |
| That all of the above apparently violated the U.N. embargo. |
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| That most illicit trade with Iraq goes through free trade zones in Jordan, and is brokered by middlemen, some of whom are named in Iraq Watch. | Search for "Jordan" under the "Iraq's suppliers" button. | |
| That the U.S. Commerce Department approved the export of sensitive American equipment to the Chinese company recently caught helping Iraq target U.S. pilots, and Commerce is now considering an application to sell this company more. | Look up "Huawei" under the "Iraq's suppliers" button. | |
| That Iraq produced a top secret report on the radiological bomb it tested in 1987, showing the bomb's design and the amount of contamination around the point of impact. | Go to "Government documents," click "Iraqi Atomic Energy Agency," then click "Top Secret Report on Radiological Bomb." |