IRAQI CHEMICAL WEAPONS

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Subject: IRAQI CHEMICAL WEAPONS

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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SEP 90







COUNTRY: IRAQ

SUBJ:  DESCRIPTION OF CHEMICAL AND CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

PRODUCTION FACILITIES IN IRAQ.







1. THE SALMAN PAK CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACILITY:

A. ACCESS/SECURITY TO FACILITY: THE FACILITY IS

LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 20 KILOMETERS FROM BAGHDAD







B. PHYSICAL LAYOUT/CHARACTERISTICS:  THE

BUILDING IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 12 METERS

UNDERGROUND. IT IS APPROXIMATELY SEVEN METERS IN

HEIGHT, 45 METERS WIDE AND 40 METERS IN LENGTH.







D CHEMICALS PRODUCED AT FACILITY: SULFURIC

ACID, LEAD (SIC), "BLACK' ACID (NFI), HYDROGEN

ACID, MAGNESIUM, AND SODIUM HYDROCARBONATE WERE

BEING PRODUCED AT THE FACILITY.







2: THE QA'QA ESTABLISHMENT:  THE FACILITY IS A HUGE

COMPOUND WHICH HAS SIX MAIN "FACTORIES," ALL NAMED AFTER

FAMOUS ARAB LEGENDS.           THE FOLLOWING

DETAILS PERTAIN TO ONLY ONE OF THEM; THE "KHALID BIN WALID"

FACTORY.          THE KHALID BIN WALID FACTORY, AS OF NOVEMBER 1989,

PRODUCED SAM-6 MISSILE FUSELAGES.







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