[COAT] Canada's Iraq War Profiteers at CANSEC: War Export Report

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Profiting from the Slaughter of Innocents in Iraq:
An Exposé on Canada's Iraq War Profiteers at the CANSEC Weapons Bazaar
and their export of key parts & services for major US weapons systems used in Iraq
 
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The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(COAT), a Canadian anti-war network based in Ottawa, has published a
detailed
report exposing Canadian corporate complicity in the Iraq War. This
report highlights Canadian war industry exports for 39 varieties of war
planes deployed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq since March
2003.

COAT's report lists 130 Canadian military companies and provides hundreds
of internet links on the key products and services they have provided for
many of the world's deadliest weapons systems used in Iraq. 

The three dozen data tables in this exposé also reveal corporate links to
the so-called Canadian Association of Defense and Security Industries
(CADSI). This federal

government-funded lobby group is the organizer of CANSEC --
Canada's largest military export bazaar. CADSI's upcoming CANSEC
2009 trade show will be hosted at the City of Ottawa's Lansdowne
Park, May 27-28, 2009. This directly contravenes the City's 1989
motion banning all arms
exhibitions from municipal facilities. This ban resulted from COAT's
first campaign, exactly 20 years ago.

Among the military companies belonging to CADSI, is Ottawa Mayor Larry
O'Brien's Calian Technologies. SED Systems, a wholly owned
division of Calian, will again exhibit its wares at the CANSEC war show
this May. SED's
"
Manportable Surveillance & Target Acquisition Radar" has
been used in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.  Read
three Citizen
articles on CANSEC and the Mayor's conflict of interest in promoting
the CANSEC weapons exhibition. Calian products are embedded in the
following war planes used in the Iraq War that are detailed in this COAT
report:
C-130

"Hercules" 
F-117 "Night
Hawk"  
RQ-4
"Global
Hawk"  U-2
"Dragon Lady" 
F/A-18

"Hornet"
Calian products are also employed in the MQ-8B "Fire Scout," a
killer aerial robot drone equipped with laser-guided missiles, that is
slated for deployment in Iraq.

Most Canadians strongly oppose the Iraq war and would be shocked to learn
that so many companies in this country have aiding and abetting that
illegal invasion and occupation. Some
1.3
million Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of the war since
the "shock and awe" aerial bombardments of 2003.
The Canadian
government has also supported the Iraq War in many other significant
ways besides allowing, and often financing, Canadian military production
and exports destined for America's top weapons technology.

Click here to
access COAT's full report containing numerous data tables exposing
details about Canadian war industry exporters complicit in the Iraq War
and their links to the upcoming CANSEC arms bazaar in Ottawa.

Please circulate this report and join us in opposing CANSEC.

Richard Sanders, 
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade (COAT)
Editor, COAT's magazine, Press for Conversion!
Author of report,
Profiting from
the Slaughter of Innocents in Iraq