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 ### Connections to Broader Networks
 
-The Arms-to-Iraq affair intersected with the same networks documented in this vault's Iran-Contra materials. [[Carlos Cardoen]]'s cluster munition supplies to Iraq moved through similar government-licensed channels. The BNL scandal's Atlanta loans financed the same Iraqi procurement entities. [[PROMIS]] software was allegedly supplied to Iraqi intelligence through overlapping networks. The British government's knowledge of Iraq's chemical weapons program - including the use of British-supplied precursors - while continuing to support exports was a particularly damaging element of the Scott inquiry's findings.[^1]
+The Arms-to-Iraq affair intersected with the same networks documented in this vault's Iran-Contra materials. [[Carlos Cardoen]]'s cluster munition supplies to Iraq moved through similar government-licensed channels. The BNL scandal's [[Atlanta]] loans financed the same Iraqi procurement entities. [[PROMIS]] software was allegedly supplied to Iraqi intelligence through overlapping networks. The British government's knowledge of Iraq's chemical weapons program - including the use of British-supplied precursors - while continuing to support exports was a particularly damaging element of the Scott inquiry's findings.[^1]
 
 [[Mark Thatcher]], son of former Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]], had separate business dealings in arms-related sectors during the same period. Thatcher was later convicted in South Africa in 2004 for helping finance the [[Equatorial Guinea]] coup attempt organized by South African mercenaries.[^2]
 

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 location: "Atlanta, Georgia"
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-The BNL scandal (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro scandal) grew from the discovery that the Atlanta, Georgia branch of [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] - Italy's largest state-owned bank - had illegally extended approximately $5 billion in unauthorized loans to [[Iraq]] between 1985 and 1989. The loans were used by [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government to finance purchases of weapons, weapons components, and dual-use industrial equipment. The FBI discovered the scheme on August 4, 1989, when agents raided the Atlanta branch and seized documents showing undisclosed credit facilities to Iraqi state enterprises.[^1]
+The BNL scandal (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro scandal) grew from the discovery that the [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]] branch of [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] - Italy's largest state-owned bank - had illegally extended approximately $5 billion in unauthorized loans to [[Iraq]] between 1985 and 1989. The loans were used by [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government to finance purchases of weapons, weapons components, and dual-use industrial equipment. The FBI discovered the scheme on August 4, 1989, when agents raided the Atlanta branch and seized documents showing undisclosed credit facilities to Iraqi state enterprises.[^1]
 
 ### The Atlanta Loans
 

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 [[Donald Rumsfeld]] visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in December 1983 as President Reagan's special envoy, a visit documented in State Department cables released decades later. The visit cemented the relationship at a moment when U.S. intelligence was tracking Iraqi chemical weapons use against Iranian troops. The Reagan administration continued to provide intelligence and credits despite this knowledge.
 
-The [[BNL scandal]] - involving the Atlanta branch of [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] - grew out of Iraq's use of loans to purchase weapons and dual-use technology during the war. British arms dealer networks, later examined in the [[Arms-to-Iraq]] affair and the [[Scott Inquiry]], similarly supplied Iraq with equipment during this period.
+The [[BNL scandal]] - involving the [[Atlanta]] branch of [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] - grew out of Iraq's use of loans to purchase weapons and dual-use technology during the war. British arms dealer networks, later examined in the [[Arms-to-Iraq]] affair and the [[Scott Inquiry]], similarly supplied Iraq with equipment during this period.
 
 ### Chemical Weapons