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category: "Intelligence Scandals"
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category: "Intelligence Scandal"
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- UnitedKingdom
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- ScottInquiry
summary: "The Arms-to-Iraq affair was the British corollary to the same illicit Iraq weapons procurement networks examined in the Iran-Contra and BNL scandal investigations: British companies, licensed by the government, supplied precision machinery and military-relevant technology to Saddam Hussein's government during the Iran-Iraq War; the collapse of the Matrix Churchill prosecution in 1992 and the subsequent Scott Inquiry (1992-1996) documented government deception of Parliament."
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The Arms-to-Iraq affair was a British political and legal scandal arising from the discovery that the United Kingdom government had covertly approved the export of military-relevant technology to [[Iraq]] during the [[Iran-Iraq War]] (1980-1988) while publicly maintaining that arms exports to Iraq were prohibited under British guidelines. The scandal involved British companies supplying precision machine tools, military components, and dual-use technology to [[Saddam Hussein]]'s weapons procurement agencies under government-approved export licenses, in violation of the spirit and eventually the letter of the UK's stated policy.[^1]