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pst.000021153716	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.	United States export policy toward Iraq prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on did U.S. exports aid Iraq's military capabilities and did the administration accurately disclose its licensing of dual use exports to Iraq? : October 27, 1992 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.102-996	1993		.txt	text/plain	130338	19428	73	But in terms of the first Commerce list, the accurate initial listing of this, it says here on this particular export license, which involves an American company, it says in the original records, "According to our information, the end user is involved in military During the course of his investigation of BNL, Chairman Gonzalez discovered documents suggesting that our Government, prior to the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, approved over 700 licenses for the export of dual-use items that may given "for equipment with dual or not clearly stated uses for export to probable proliferation related end users in Iraq."6 That same document reveals: . Although United States policy precludes approval of Munitions Control licenses for Iraq, exports of dual-use commodities for conventional military use may be approved.8 The RD&D license was "embargoed" following August 2, 1990, as were many other deals for advanced military production equipment which had received Commerce Department approval in application of the President's new Iraq policy.	./cache/pst.000021153716.pdf	./txt/pst.000021153716.txt