A sophisticated Iraqi procurement scheme in South Africa, which is believed to have been fatally compromised and abandoned, could have significantly accelerated Saddam Hussein’s clandestine biological weapons program. Quoting a well-informed Middle Eastern source, the London-based newsletter Foreign Report said the scheme was designed to bypass South African customs and security services, which enforce a ban on the export of goods that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction.
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