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...into the world's fourth-ranking military power, totaled more than $50 billion -- and that figure refers only to sales of conventional weapons. Some $15 billion more went toward the covert purchase of materials to develop chemical and biological weapons. Who armed Saddam? Says Anthony Cordesman, the leading U.S. expert on the Iraqi military: "The answer is everybody who has arms...
UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. Germany is implicated in more disturbing ways. A U.S. arms expert says Germany's MAN Technologie continued to send technicians to Iraq to work on Saddam's nuclear program as late as last November. According to German reports, German companies also provided Iraq with 90% of its chemical-weapons capability. Most of the exports were dual-use items. Manufacturers told German customs officials that the shipments involved factory parts for the construction of pesticide plants. Actually they were destined for complexes like Samarra and Salman Pak, where Iraq developed its chemical and biological weapons. Now, warns Gary Milhollin...
...Expert panelist and Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Mark H. Moore said the candidate list boasts a number of former police commissioners and that more than half of the hopefuls are members of minority groups. Members from both panels including Moore, said they were impressed by the quality of the candidates...
...among the "most formidable fighting men in the Third World," according to Richard Jupa, co-author of an upcoming article on the Guards for Army magazine. Jupa doubts that they can be defeated from the air. "They can disperse their brigades and dig in deeply," he says. "They are expert at decoys." Jupa predicts that even after heavy air bombardment, the Guards will put up a ferocious, if brief, fight in any ground war that follows...
...that when such systems encounter unexpected trouble they usually do not just slow down; they crash. The Pentagon has not shown any TV pictures of "smart" bombs flying a perfect path into the side of a camel. But as the Scud hits have demonstrated, mistakes do happen. One aircraft expert says the desert sand has wreaked havoc with the British Tornado jets, lodging in the turbine engine blades and melting into glass. If blades on U.S. jets are faring better, it may be because enginemakers imported tons of Saudi sand for tests several years ago and modified their equipment accordingly...