Not Your Sweetie

The Mystery of the Missing News

The missing 8,000 pages the United States edited out of
Iraq’s 11,800-page dossier on weapons before it passed on a “sanitized”
version to the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations
security council, according to a December 22 story in the Glasgow,
Scotland Sunday Herald.

The five permanent members of the security council—the US, the UK, France, China and
Russia—were given access to the complete “top secret” version of the dossier.

Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan called it was ‘unfortunate’ that the UN had allowed the
US to take the only complete dossier and edit it. Norway, a fellow (non-permanent) member of
the Security Council, was miffed; its UN spokesperson said Norway felt like it was being treated
like a “second-class country” because it wasn’t made privy to the complete dossier.

Without all the information, the authors point out, the non-permanent members of the Security
Council will have no way of testing the US claims for themselves if the US and the UK go back to
the Security Council seeking authorization to wage war on Iraq due to alleged breaches of
resolution 1441. The UN weapons inspectors’ report is expected to be made to the UN this
month.

Hans von Sponeck, former assistant general secretary of the UN and the UN’s humanitarian
co-ordinator in Iraq until 2000, told the Scottish authors, “This is an outrageous attempt by the
US to mislead.”


The needed information came through on December 18 by way of a Geneva-based reporter,
Andreas Zumach. He broke the story on the US national listener-sponsored radio and television
show "Democracy Now!,” reporting that he had found that the missing pages provided the names
of US corporations, government agencies and even nuclear labs that over the years have helped
arm Iraq, and train Iraqi personnel in the use of these arms—illegally.

"We have 24 major U.S. companies listed in the report who gave very substantial support
especially to the biological weapons program but also to the missile and nuclear weapons
program," Zumach said. "Pretty much everything was illegal in the case of nuclear and biological
weapons. Every form of cooperation and supplies was outlawed in the 1970s."

US corporations listed in the missing pages of the report include Hewlett Packard, DuPont,
Honeywell, Rockwell, Tectronics, Bechtel, International Computer Systems, Unisys, Sperry and TI
Coating. Further, the missing information shows that US governmental agencies, including the
Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture, as well as the U.S. government nuclear
weapons laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia, all illegally helped Iraq to build
its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs by providing supplies and/or training