Newsgroup: it.cultura.militare
Titolo: le prove dell'aiuto dato dagli usa all'iraq per sviluppare WMD

U.S. military aid to Iraq
Because of fears that revolutionary Iran would defeat Iraq and export
its Islamic Revolution to other Middle Eastern nations, the U.S. began
giving aid to Iraq. From 1983 to 1990, the U.S. government approved
around $200 million in arms sales to Iraq, according to the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).[5] These sales
amounted to less than 1% of the total arms sold to Iraq in the
relevant period, including helicopters which, although designated for
civilian use, were immediately deployed by Iraq in its war with Iran.
An investigation by the Senate Banking Committee in 1994 determined
that the U.S. Department of Commerce had approved, for the purpose of
research, the shipping of dual-use biological agents to Iraq during
the mid-1980s, including Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), later
identified by the Pentagon as a key component of the Iraqi biological
warfare program, as well as Clostridium botulinum, Histoplasma
capsulatum, Brucella melitensis, and Clostridium perfringens. The
Committee report noted that each of these had been "considered by
various nations for use in war."[6] Declassified U.S. government
documents indicate that the U.S. government had confirmed that Iraq
was using chemical weapons (but not biological weapons that the agents
being exported could have been used for) "almost daily" during the
Iran-Iraq conflict as early as 1983.[7] The chairman of the Senate
committee, Don Riegle, said: "The executive branch of our government
approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology
to Iraq. I think it's a devastating record".[8]
The level of U.S. covert aid to Iraq during this period is difficult
to quantify. Saddam Hussein is widely known to have received
battlefield intelligence from the U.S.[9] This, corresponding with
other facts, leaks and rumors, is seen by many as an indicator of
substantial CIA involvement during the era.
 U.S. economic aid to Iraq
It was chiefly the U.S. government which furnished Iraq with economic
aid. Iraq's war with Iran and the consequent disruption in Iraq's oil
export business had caused the country to enter a deep debt. U.S.
government economic assistance allowed Hussein to continue using
resources for the war which otherwise would have to have been
diverted. Between 1983 and 1990, Iraq received $5 billion in export
credit guarantees from the Commodity Credit Corporation program run by
the Department of Agriculture, beginning at $400 million per year in
1983 and increasing to over $1 billion per year in 1988 and 1989,
finally coming to an end after another $500 million was granted in
1990.[10] Besides agricultural credits, the U.S. also provided Hussein
with other loans. In 1985 the U.S. Export-Import Bank extended more
than $684 million in credits to Iraq to build an oil pipeline through
Jordan with the construction being undertaken by Californian
construction firm Bechtel Corporation.[4]

 U.S. military aid to Iraq
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