Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordeal she has undergone in the past three years. The petite former attorney for Kennametal Inc., a Pennsylvania machine-tool maker, says she has been harassed, followed and even run off the road since she accused the company of illegally shipping metal-working equipment with military uses to Iraq. But Gasior has persisted in her whistle-blowing ways. She has now amassed evidence that, she says, threatens to expose the misdeeds of American companies as well as a vast Bush Administration cover-up of how scores of firms, some using U.S.-backed loans, helped build Saddam Hussein's war machine...
...lonely spadework, Gasior is finally getting some respect. Two powerful Democratic Congressmen, Jack Brooks of Texas and Charlie Rose of North Carolina, took her findings to the White House and Attorney General Janet Reno last month. Their goal: to press for a re-examination of U.S. business ties to Iraq and the role of the Justice Department in a possible cover-up. Last week at a Washington reception, the Cavallo Foundation honored Gasior with a $10,000 award for her "moral courage" and for her efforts to ! expose wrongdoing. Said Rose at the ceremony: "She is remarkable and courageous...
...scandal stands the outfit that financed a large portion of it: the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
...secret pact, the reports say, calls for the Italian Mafia to funnel drugs to the Russians in exchange for sophisticated armaments, perhaps even nuclear weapons. The arms, stolen or purchased from no-longer- Soviet arsenals in the southern Muslim republics, would then be resold to dangerous elements in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya...
...ironically, despite the cries of protesters who have called him "bloodthirsty" and "warmongering," Powell was reluctant to engage in military warfare with Iraq, according to Bob Woodward's book The Commanders...