IRAQI CW AGENTS

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SUBJECT: IRAQI CW AGENTS

    

KNOWN                                                      POSSIBLE


SULFUR MUSTARD                                              VX

SARIN 

TABUN

GF



                         IRAQI CW STOCKPILE ESTIMATE








                        CHEMICAL MUNITIONS USED
                        BY IRAQ DURING WAR WITH IRAN

AERIAL BOMBS (250, 500-KG)
AERIAL ROCKET (90-MM)
MORTARS (82, 120-MM)
ARTILLERY
ROCKETS (MRLS 122-MM)



 
                              SCUD SSMs

-LIKELY TARGETS INCLUDE AIRFIELDS, LOGISTICS BASES, TROOP
CONCENTRATIONS IN REAR





                          OPERATION IMPLICATIONS
 






                        PROTECTIVE ACTIONS

BOTTOM LINE   












                      IRAQI CHEMICAL WARFARE


SLIDE 1.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

-CONFIRMED AND POSSIBLE IRAQI CW AGENTS

-IRAQI CW MUNITIONS

-SUMMARY OF IRAQI TACTICS IN IRAN/IRAQ WAR

-ESTIMATE OF IRAQI CW STOCKPILE


SLIDE 2.

-ON THE LEFT ARE THE CONFIRMED CW AGENTS IN THE IRAQI INVENTORY 

WHICH INCLUDE             OF THE BLISTER AGENT SULFUR MUSTARD AND 

THE G-SERIES NERVE AGENTS TABUN, SARIN AND GF.  VX IS ONLY 

CONSIDERED A POSSIBLE AGENT.



SLIDE 4.               CHEMICAL MUNITIONS

THE FOLLOWING MUNITIONS/DELIVERY SYSTEMS WERE USED BY IRAQ IN THE 

WAR WITH IRAN.  INITIAL TACTICS WERE DEFENSIVE AND INCLUDED 

COVERING IRAQI WITHDRAWAL OR TO BLUNT IRANIAN HUMAN WAVE ATTACKS. 

THE OFFENSIVES OF 1988 SAW THE SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION OF CW INTO 

IRAQI COMBINED ARMS OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS.  IN THE OFFENSIVE NON-

PERSISTENT NERVE AGENTS WERE USED IN THE FORWARD LINE OF ADVANCE 

AND A COMBINATION OF PERSISTENT MUSTARD AND NON-PERSISTENT NERVE 

AGENT ON IRANIAN COMMAND POSTS AND FOR COUNTER BATTERY FIRE.