#ArmsToIraq

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Jonathan Moyle Editor of Defence Helicopter World found hanged in a Santiago hotel in March 1990 while reporting on a helicopter Carlos Cardoen was converting for Iraq, and afterward described by British officials as a sexual deviant.
Safa al-Habobi Iraqi official who ran the London front companies of Hussein Kamel's military industry ministry, chaired Matrix Churchill, was indicted in Atlanta in 1991 with Christopher Drogoul, and was named Iraq's oil minister in 1993.

Matrix Churchill British machine tool maker bought in 1987 by an Iraqi military procurement front, financed by the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose directors' 1992 trial collapsed and led to the Scott Inquiry.
SerVaas Inc. Indianapolis company that sold Iraq a 40 million dollar brass recycling plant financed by BNL Atlanta, which its owner told Congress was for commercial products and Iraqi documents assigned to cartridge cases and artillery fuses.

Project Babylon Iraqi program to build Gerald Bull's 131-foot gun, exposed when British customs seized its barrel sections at Teesport on April 12, 1990, three weeks after Bull was shot dead in Brussels.
Scott Inquiry The Scott Inquiry (formally the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions) was a British judicial inquiry conducted 1992-1996 by Lord Justice Richard Scott, which examined the Thatcher and Major governments' secret relaxation of arms export guidelines to Iraq and the subsequent deception of Parliament; it produced a 1,800-page report finding systematic ministerial concealment and the improper use of public interest immunity certificates to suppress evidence in the Matrix Churchill prosecution.