User:Hcberkowitz/Sandbox-Belgian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war

Chemical weapons
Phillips Petroleum Company, from a plant in Belgium, in the 1980s sold the chemical thiodiglycol to Iraq. This chemical is used in manufacturing mustard gas. ( Gary Thatcher and Timothy Aeppel, "The Trail to Samarra, Christian Science Monitor, December 13, 1988, p. B-1.)http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/BG844.cfm