Iraqi BW

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Iraqi BW

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Subject: Iraqi BW

2335/15FEB91
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[   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ]
Question:  When did DlA first locate a biological facility at 
Latifiya?
   DlA Answer:       During the first week of February 1991.

       Question:  Is this, in DIA's assessment, the facility which 
the fermentation   equipment was destined for?
   DIA Answer:      It is possible but we do not know with 
certainty at this time.
   More research and analysis is necessary before DIA can be more 
definitive.

       [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]




       Question:  What is the exact geolocation of the site?
   DIA Answer:      330058N/0441317E

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       Question:  Was the facility utterly destroyed?
   DIA. Answer:     The large process/production/filling building 
was severely
   damage-to-destroyed and would not be possible to operate.  The
   administration/lab building is very severely damaged.  THe 
building resembling
   the fire station at Salman Pak is totally destroyed.  One of 
two of the 2100
   cubic meter buildings is destroyed.  All four large cooling 
units have been
   destroyed  Overall the facility could not operate as intended.

      Question:      Would also appreciate a summary of the damage 
at the following
   production sites: Salman Pak, Taji, and Abu Gharib (clostridium 
vaccine
   facility)
   DiA Answer:      At Salman Pak, the P3/P4 building is very 
severely damaged and
   heavy damage to the H-shaped building nearby.  In the research 
and engineering
   section of Salman Pak, the T-shaped building has heavy damage, 
the high-bay
   building just to the south of the T-shaped building is severely 
damaged, and the
   

third building in the area with a high-bay section on the north 
side of the
   building has also been heavily damaged.  In the area with new 
construction at
   Salman Pak, one large building near the fire station is totally 
destroyed.  Two
   other large buildings have received heavy damage.  All major 
buildings at Salman
   Pak are considered inoperable.  The suspect BW production 
building at Taji has
   been totally destroyed.  The liquid nitrogen facility at Taji 
has been severely
   damaged and rendered inoperable.  The Abu Gharib clostridium 
plant has been
   totally destroyed.

    Question:  What is your assessment of the Iraqi capability to 
employ BWA in
the present war in light of the massive damage caused to the 
production and
storage facilities in the bombing?
DIA Answer:       We are in the position of not knowing how much 
BW agent
has been destroyed during attacks and therefore can not judge with 
certainty how
much remains and in what form (bulk or munitions).  We must 
operate from the point of view that BW agent remains in the 
inventory and act accordingly.

    Question:  Is it possible that bombs/warheads armed with 
anthrax agent are
stored, ready for use, outside the cooled facilities:
DIA Answer:       Prior to the outbreak of hostilities DIA 
considered the Iraqis to have two confirmed BW agents--anthrax and 
botulinum toxin which we believed to
to placed in weapons.  We must emphasize that the weaponization of 
BW agents is assessment and not based upon positive information. 
If such weapons exist and contain anthrax spores, they would be 
stable for long periods of time without refrigeration.

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