Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigators might have found it easier to piece together information on Iraq's nuclear capabilities if U.S. Customs agent Daniel Supnick had made a little trip to Baghdad two years ago. In 1989, posing undercover as a California electronics executive, Supnick met in London with Iraqi officials eager to buy 5,000-volt capacitors for use in triggering nuclear devices. When the Iraqis invited Supnick to tour their nuclear facilities back home, Supnick wanted to give it a try. But the State Department nixed the idea as too risky for the agent...
...fact, board members say he voiced doubts about whether Harken had the means and expertise for such a distant oil play. Even so, he has already earned a handsome profit from it. In late June 1990, five months after the deal was ( sealed and about a month before Iraq invaded Kuwait, young Bush sold 66% of his Harken stake (or 212,140 shares) at the top of the market for nearly $850,000, which represented a 200% profit on his original stake. Yet he failed to report the transaction until last March, in apparent violation of Securities and Exchange Commission...
...Menashe has been eager to put his name to all kinds of tales. He has told the Senate that CIA chief-designate Robert Gates was a central figure in secret U.S. sales of arms to Iraq. He claims Robert McFarlane was simultaneously National Security Adviser and the top Israeli spy in Washington. He impressed one reporter who has dealt with him as a fabricator who nonetheless did have connections in Israeli intelligence. Some of his stories are unbelievable; some seem to contain a kernel of truth. The big question is which are which...
...issue of the Gulf War, Brown said he was against the initial military involvement against Iraq and that Bush should have tried harder to seek a negotiated settlement to the problem...
Brown conceded that the destruction of Iraq'a nuclear capability was one positive result of the war, however...