WHO BUT THE FRENCH...:

France Denies It Knowingly Helped Iraqi Arms Drive (Reuters, March 17, 2003)

French officials on Monday dismissed suggestions that Paris had knowingly helped Iraq obtain biological weapons, but conceded Baghdad may have had ulterior motives for scientific cooperation dating back two decades.

The New York Times reported that Iraq had identified a Virginia-based biofirm and France's prestigious Pasteur Institute as suppliers of 17 types of biological agents that were used in weapons programs.

The Pasteur Institute told Reuters it had helped Iraq work on anthrax and other dangerous bacteria in the 1980s -- in purely scientific and educational research -- but said the last shipment of material had been transferred around 1985.

...would find it necessary to announce their surrender in a war they're dodging? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2003 4:52 PM