[2] During the twenty years he lived in Poland Cattan operated both a used car and a pizza companies.
[1] The Los Angeles Times reported that Cattan had been appointed by Iraq's American occupiers.
In September 2005 The Independent reported that Cattan and his former boss Al-Shaalan, are both living in Jordan, and refusing comment.
[3] The UK firm had a licence to import 40,000 surplus AK-47s from Yugoslavia, but had sent Yugoslavian weapons to Cattan, for Iraq.
The Guardian reported that the lack of compliant documentation meant that weapons sold to Cattan were now untraceable, and thus a breach of international arms agreements.