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together to produce a "gun."
Documents seized at one of
the British companies,
Walter Somers Limited, in-
cluded correspondence with
his Belgian company and
contained references to "the
project," "smooth-bore
pipes" and "short, high-
pressure sections."
It is also known that offi-
cials of the second British
company, Sheffield
Forgemasters, which made
the pipes on behalf of Walter
Somers, traveled to Brussels
for meetings with officials of
Bull's company.
Both the Iraqi government
and the British manufactur-
ing companies have insisted
that the pipes were destined
for Iraq's petrochemical in-
dustry, but British sources
pointed out that the pipes
were designed to withstand
pressures 12 times greater
than those encountered in
the petrochemical industry
— the sort of pressures that
would be exerted by Bull's
rocket launcher.
A petrochemical consul-
tant also noted that the pet-
rochemical industry would
have had no use for the
British-made pipes, which
taper in thickness from 12
inches to two-and-a-half in-
ches. Nor would pet-
rochemical pipes have had to
be made with the precision
of those produced by Shef-
field Forgemasters — accu-
rate to within a 5,000th of an
inch.
According to Sheffield
Forgemasters, the eight
pipes seized last week were,
in fact, the last of three con-
signments bound for Iraq. A
total of 44 pipes, it said, have
already been delivered, and
British sources believe that
the first two consignments of
pipes have been used to con-
struct two guns: a prototype
and a tester.
Amid the immense
coverage that the Iraqi
"super-gun" has received in
the British media, Israel has
been repeatedly implicated
in various critical stages of
the affair.
Bull's son, Michael, who
has taken over the running
of his father's company, told
the London Sunday Times
that he was convinced his
father had been killed by an
agent of the Mossad, Israel's
foreign intelligence agency.
He said that a family
friend who had contact with
the Mossad warned his
father that "they were after
him." Israeli intelligence
was also widely reported to
have been responsible for
tipping off the British
Customs authorities about
the imminent shipment of
the pipes.
In one of the most unusual
twists, however, the Mail on
Sunday reported that Far-
zad Bazoft, the British-based
journalist who was executed
in Baghdad last month on
charges of allegedly spying
for Israel, had been in-
vestigating the activities of
Bull and his company.
According to the news-
paper, Bazoft wrote five
statements in his cell shortly
before his execution. One,
which was not publicized,
was handed to the Saudi
Arabian authorities by Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein
in a bid to justify the execu-
tion.
Bazoft, an Iranian exile
who worked as a freelance
for the respected Observer
newspaper in London,
allegedly wrote in the
statement that he had been
desperately short of money
in 1988 when he was ap-
proached by "someone who
worked for the Observer "
and asked if he would
"investigate stories that
were not intended for
publication."
He was then asked to
discover all he could about
Bull with the promise of "a
great amount of money" and
"the job I wanted at the
Observer. I was very excited
about it."
In 1988, wrote Bazoft, he
had met Bull and an associ-
ate, chemical warfare expert
Steven Adams, in Cologne.
At the time, according to the
newspaper, Adams was
working at the chemical
weapons plant near
Baghdad which Bazoft tried
to visit and which led to his
arrest and execution.
The newspaper said it had
obtained a copy of a bank
credit transfer which showed
Bazoft received $2,500 in
Baghdad from a London
bank on September 11, just
four days before his arrest.
It also said it had received
a copy of Bazoft's statement
from Saudi sources and was
told that it had not been
publicized along with other
statements at the time of
Bazoft's execution for fear of
exposing Bull and his links
with Iraq. Bull was
assassinated exactly one
week after Bazoft's execu-
tion.
According to the Mail on
Sunday, Bazoft was said to
have engaged purely in le-
gitimate journalistic ac-
tivities when he visited Iraq.
The new evidence, however,
indicated that he had for a
long time been taking a close
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