Comprehensive Report

By Government Printing Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000050222
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 6.0 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Comprehensive Report
Author:	Government Printing Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: Saddam and many Iraqis regarded CW as a proven weapon against an enemy’s superior numerical strength, a weapon that had saved the nation at least once already-during the Iran-Iraq war-and contributed to deterring the Coalition in 1991 from advancing to Baghdad. While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a policy ISG attributes to Baghdad’s desire to see sanctions lifted, or rendered ineffectual, or its fear of force against it should WMD be discovered. // The scale of the Iraqi conventional munitions stockpile, among other factors, precluded an examination of the entire stockpile; however, ISG inspected sites judged most likely associated with possible storage or deployment of chemical weapons.

Table of Contents
Contents Key Findings ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Evolution of the Chemical Warfare Program........................................................................................... 5 Regime Strategy and WMD Timeline .......................................................................................... 5 The Early Years, 1960-1980: A Slow Start................................................................................... 5 The Chemical Corps and Al-Hasan Ibn-al-Haytham Research Foundation........................ 5 Full Capability, 1981-1991: Ambition.......................................................................................... 6 Foundation of the Al Muthanna State Establishment.......................................................... 6 Agent Production Begins and Al Muthanna State Establishment Takes Shape .................. 6 Early Weaponization: Simple Solutions .............................................................................. 8 CW—A Permanent and Pivotal Strategic Weapon.............................................................. 9 The Decline, 1991-1996 ............................................................................................................... 9 Destroying Iraqi Weapons ............................................................................................................ 9 Recovery and Transition, 1996-2003.......................................................................................... 12 Miscalculation, 2002-2003 ......................................................................................................... 13 Command and Control.......................................................................................................................... 14 Preamble: Muddling Through After the Gulf War ..................................................................... 14 Iraq Could Maintain CW Competence With Relative Ease........................................................ 15 Infrastructure—Research and Development.......................................................................................... 16 Creation of the Iraqi Industrial Committee ................................................................................ 17 The Power of the IIC .................................................................................................................. 17 The IIC’s Master Plan for Self-Reliance: The List of 1,000 Chemicals .................................... 18 Dual-Use Chemicals on the List of 1,000 Chemicals................................................................. 18 Thionyl Chloride ............................................................................................................... 19 DCC.................................................................................................................................. 19 Thiourea ............................................................................................................................ 22 Chemicals From the List Move Toward Production................................................................... 22 Infrastructure—Production Capability................................................................................................... 23 State of Chemical Industry at OIF—Limited Break-Out Capability ......................................... 24 Weaponization....................................................................................................................................... 29 Suspect Munitions Activities ...................................................................................................... 29 Disposition of CW Munitions Post-1991 ................................................................