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To: Ilaine who wrote (88512)	10/6/2004 7:20:36 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

FAQ: Who was the major supplier of arms to Iraq? CobaltBlue's FAQ covers the time span 1973-2002. Today the Iraq Survey Group published its report: cia.gov It offers an interesting update on weapon suppliers. There's a chart on p. 229 of volume 1 listing the following "Top 12 sources of WMD and arms-related procurement transactions with Iraq", 1995-March 2003: Russia, Syria, Jordan, Belarus, PRC (China), India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France. This sequence does not represent the volume ranking but visually Russia, Syria and Jordan seem to have been the major "trading partners" of Iraq in the years prior to the war.