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Information about the U.S. Center for Disease Control
selling pathogens that can be used as biological weapons to Iraq.

 
The CDC and U.S. companies sending material suitable for biological weapons to Iraq started in the early 1980s, when the United States supported Saddam and Iraq in its long, eight-year war with Iran.
  
   

Private companies, like the "American Type Culture Collection," also sent shipments of anthrax, germs that cause gas gangrene and Clostridium botulism bacteria to Iraq; these deadly material were all found in warhead in Iraq when it's biological weapons program was dismantled after the first Gulf War.

     
   
   
     
  The list included viruses and pathogens including anthrax, West Nile virus, botulism toxin and the plague. and below are several articles about it. This information was requested by was read into the Congressional Record, Sept. 20, 2002 by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd., Page S8987-S8998  
  A look at U.S. shipments of pathogens to Iraq  
  Iraq got seeds for bio weapons from U.S.  
  Report: U.S. supplied the kinds of germs Iraq later used for biological weapons  
  How Iraq built its weapons programs: With a little help from the USA.  
  Made in the USA: U.S. Government Agencies that aided Iraq during it's eight-year war with Iran  
  Iraq & the West Nile Virus: A possible Connection?
Article wondering if the later 1999 first appearance of the West Nile virus in the USA came from these very strains we sold to Iraq ourselves. This was another question vigorously pursued by Senator Byrd.