Iraqis Drop WMD Claim Against American Company
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A group of expatriate Iraqi Kurds have dropped their federal court claim that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. sold chemical-weapons materials to the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1980s.
The Nashville-based Kurdish National Congress and five expatriates filed the dismissal notice Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
Thermo Scientific is based in Waltham, Mass.
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The action leaves just one defendant — Alcolac Inc., a unit of the Paris-based Rhodia group.
Alcolac is seeking dismissal of the lawsuit.