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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

Dit, een artikel uit de schotse krant Sunday Herald , staat nu niet meer daar maar op commondreams.org:

How Did Iraq Get Its Weapons? We Sold Them
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm

(ik copiëerde het destijds ook van de Sunday Herald naar mijn HD)

nope geen tanks of vliegtuigen probeer nog eens

Type 59 tank in Iraqi colors, captured in 1991 warSoviet doctrine emphasized tanks, and Iraq followed its example. It consistently improved its skills with tanks, both Soviet-made and Chinese copies. It also used its attack helicopters with some of the Soviet "flying tank" methods. Most Iraqi tanks were Soviet, or Chinese copies of Soviet tanks, with more and more acquired during the war. They started in 1979 with 2,500 older T-55 and T-62 model Soviet tanks, and a few more advanced T-72 tanks, probably less than 100. Iraq had roughly 2,750 tanks in late 1980. In early 1988, it had more than 4,500 Soviet T-54s, 55s, 62s, and 72s, some 1,500 Chinese Type 59 and Type 69-II main battle tanks (copies/derivatives of the Soviet T-54A), 60 Romanian M-77s, and some captured Iranian British-made Chieftans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_...%80%93Iraq_war

"Between 1977 and 1987, Paris contracted to sell a total of 133 Mirage F-1 fighters to Iraq."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...%80%93Iraq_war