The Hindu : Indian cos. helping Iraq: Blair

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Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002

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Indian cos. helping Iraq: Blair

LONDON SEPT. 24. Britain today alleged that Iraq had obtained some key ingredients for missile production from Indian private companies. Presenting a 55-page dossier on Iraq's "military plans" in the specially summoned House of Commons, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said a chemical engineering firm, NEC Engineers Pvt. Ltd. provided an key ingredient in the production of solid propellant rocket motors to a plant at al-Mamoun.``A new plant at al-Mamoun for indigenously producing ammonium perchlorate, which is a key ingredient in the production of solid propellant rocket motors, has been constructed. This has been provided illicitly by NEC Engineers Private Limited, an Indian chemical engineering firm with extensive links in Iraq, including to other suspect facilities such as the Fallujah 2 chlrounine plant. _ PTI

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