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It paints a portrait of corporate greed and disregard for the human consequences of providing Iraq with the technology and resources needed to produce poison gases and other chemical weapons. Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center's dean, noted that government duplicity, par- ticularly in the case of West Germany, now unified with former East Germany, was also a major factor. Exten- sive information on the West German-Iraq connection was "simply filed away and ig- nored" by German politi- cians, the report quotes a West German parliament member as saying. Rabbi her emphasized that German chemical com- pany officials were held legally accountable hi 1946 for their role in the manufacture and distribu- tion of the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazis death camps. He urged that this "legal precedent" be explored in connection with the sales to Iraq to "keep these horrific technologies and weapons out of the hands of despots such as Saddam Hussein. "Once again, German canisters could be found at the site of mass chemical warfare," Rabbi Hier said in a telephone interview. "We can't blame the current German generation for the tragedy of the Holocaust. But we can blame them for doing business in a manner similar to the way the old Germany did business." Rabbi her said Berlin's reaction to its chemical weapons business "will tell the world much" about new- ly unified Germany's future course. "German companies clear- ly knew that Saddam Hus- sein was capable of using Ira Rifkin is an assistant editor at our sister newspaper, the Baltimore Jewish Times. chemical weapons to kill on a massive scale (Iraq has used poison gas against its Kurdish minority and against Iran). Now they, and even American firms, could be responsible for the deaths of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia if Iraq resorts to this kind of criminal at- tack again," he said. The report, prepared by Kenneth Timmerman, iden- tified by Wiesenthal officials as a Paris-based, non-Jewish expert in Middle East defense issues, contains six pages listing firms that have done billions of dollars in chemical weaponry business with Iraq over the past decade. Most of the informa- tion was taken from public sources, such as media reports, plus intelligence reports from Mr. Timmer- man's unnamed sources. Elaborate deals involving various Third World com- panies were concocted to hide the source and ultimate destination of chemical weapon-related sales. A sin- gle train-load of materials might change hands six times on its way to Iraq, the report said. . Western controls belated- ly put in place to halt the flow to Iraq proved largely ineffective, according to the report, titled "The Poison Gas Connection." "So suc- cessful were the Iraqis at beating the controls that they even succeeded in get- ting Western banks (such as the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) to finance poison gas, ballistic missile and nuclear technology purchases," the report said. The House Banking Com- mittee is scheduled to hold open hearings this week on Banca Nazionale, which is Italian government-owned. A committee spokeswoman in Washington said the hearing will center on the bank's $2.867 billion in unauthorized loans to Iraq. Wiesenthal represent- atives have been invited to testify, spokeswoman Julie Black said. The report also notes that, despite the current blockade of Iraq, "it is indeed likely that many of Iraq's clandes- tine suppliers are continuing their shipments today, using the black market methods they have by now perfected to run the gauntlet . . . " Rabbi Hier said that if the flow to Iraq is to stop, "a line must be drawn." 111