It can be used in hospitals and microbiology/molecular biology research laboratories. Senator Pat Roberts announced that the U.S. Ritter has also alleged that the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons emits certain gases, which would have been detected by satellite. In 1992, the U.N. cataloged products from 17 different German companies at Iraq's Al Muthanna chemical-weapons complex. by Norm Dixon. Support from the U.S. for Iraq was not a secret and was frequently discussed in open session of the Senate and House of Representatives. [55] According to Ritter: "Iraq today (1999) possesses no meaningful weapons of mass destruction capability. Meanwhile, he was militarily supporting Iraq -- Iran's . Claim: The removal of yellowcake uranium from Iraq in 2008 proved that Saddam Hussein had been trying to restart Iraq's nuclear program. However, German and UK firms sold more weapons to Iraq than U.S. arms companies, the Post reports. The report reviews how the sought-after information will contribute to new insights into the Iraqi chemical weapon program during Saddam's tenure with respect to use doctrine, actual use, human resources applied to development and ... The study focused on populations in two coalition countries (Australia and USA) and one opposed to the war (Germany). No! Iran's neighbors aided him. by Elson E. Boles. Instead, their goods ended up at secret factories in Libya. In his book The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind, the Iraqi nuclear engineer explains that his nuclear stash was the key that could have unlocked and restarted Saddam's bombmaking program. It constitutes bits and pieces of a weapons program which in its totality doesn't amount to much, but which is still prohibited ... We can't give Iraq a clean bill of health, therefore we can't close the book on their weapons of mass destruction. One story in particular, written by Judith Miller, helped persuade the American public that Iraq had WMD: in September 2002 she wrote about an intercepted shipment of aluminum tubes which the NYT said were to be used to develop nuclear material. [20], The United States supported Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war with over $500 million worth of dual-use equipment that were approved by the Commerce department. THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. But the very leaders who sold them the goods on Iraq's non-existent weapons program have (with the exception of Cheney) come out and acknowledged that there were no WMDs. Pierre Razoux offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West. He returned to the site late in July this year, with a German TV crew, and said both plants were still wrecked. He believes the remainder were probably used or destroyed during ‘the ravages of the Gulf War’. [129], The destruction of these remnants was completed in 2018.[130]. How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical Weapons. It has been suggested that the documents and suspected weapons sites were looted and burned in Iraq by looters in the final days of the war.[95]. He also dismisses claims that Iraq may have a nuclear weapons capacity or be on the verge of attaining one, saying that gamma-particle atomic radiation from the radioactive materials in the warheads would also have been detected by western surveillance. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. President Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) pursued the most extensive chemical program during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), when he waged chemical warfare against his foe. They were also asked which media sources they relied upon. Associated Press reported, "Repeatedly in the transcripts, Saddam and his lieutenants remind each other that Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s, and shut down those programs and the nuclear-bomb program, which had never produced a weapon." How shady reports of ISIS-made poison gas led the U.S. to a valuable ISIS weapon-maker, who helped bring the whole . [101], Demetrius Perricos, then head of UNMOVIC, stated that the Kay report contained little information not already known by UNMOVIC. He may be a butcher, but he’s our guy. Knew Iraq Was Using Chemical Weapons, Helped Out Anyway Recently declassified documents detail the CIA's knowledge of Iraq's chemical weapon program in the 1980s The symbol for . According to reports from the previous UN inspection agency, UNSCOM, Iraq produced 600 metric tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX and sarin; nearly 25,000 rockets and 15,000 artillery shells, with chemical agents, are still unaccounted for. Other shipments went from the US to the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission on July 11, 1988; the Department of Biology at the University of Basrah in November 1989; the Department of Microbiology at Baghdad University in June 1985; the Ministry of Health in April 1985 and Officers’ City, a military complex in Baghdad, in March and April 1986. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, "Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments", p42. . ( Log Out / No! [38] Most of these occurred during the Iran–Iraq War, but chemical weapons were used at least once against the Shia popular uprising in southern Iraq in 1991. Many of the shells found at Halabja had Soviet markings. [2], In the early 2000s, the administrations of George W. Bush and Tony Blair asserted that Saddam Hussein's weapons programs were still actively building weapons, and that large stockpiles of WMDs were hidden in Iraq. Contents of this report that was compiled for Congress: (1) History of Weapons Inspections in Iraq; (2) Human Rights/War Crimes Issues; (3) Support for International Terrorism; and (4) Iraq-Kuwait Issues. West German corporations mostly dealt in goods and high technology. President Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) pursued the most extensive chemical program during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), when he waged chemical warfare against his foe. Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranians and the Kurdish population of Halabja. 1936: Japan invades China, uses chemical weapons in war; German chemical labs produced the first nerve agent, Tabun. Ritter later accused some UNSCOM personnel of spying, and he strongly criticized the Bill Clinton administration for misusing the commission's resources to eavesdrop on the Iraqi military. 2009: Chemical Weapons Convention. [citation needed] On August 21, 2006, the trial of Saddam Hussein and six codefendants, including Hassan al-Majid ("Chemical Ali"), opened on charges of genocide against the Kurds. A material breach of resolution 687 would revive the authority to use force under resolution 678. Saddam Hussein, Hafez Al Assad, and Moammar Gadhafi were happy to oblige corporate and military interests in both Germanies. Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion - with many are now in Isis's hands. The West Germany company even constructed a fake factory in Hong Kong to complete the charade. [37], The Washington Post reported that in 1984 the CIA secretly started providing intelligence to the Iraqi army during the Iran-Iraq War. [53] In February 1998, UNSCOM unanimously determined that after seven years of attempts to establish the extent of Iraq's chemical weapons programs, that Iraq had still not given the Commission sufficient information for them to conclude that Iraq had undertaken all the disarmament steps required by the UNSC resolutions concerning chemical weapons. http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Chemical+Weapons, Journalist Alan Friedman author of Spider’s Web: ‘The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq discusses how Reagan normalized U.S. relations with Iraq and sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein.’ In August 1998, absent effective monitoring, Scott Ritter remarked that Iraq could "reconstitute chemical biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program. [127][128] US soldiers reporting exposure to mustard gas and sarin allege they were required to keep their exposure secret, sometimes declined admission to hospital and evacuation home despite the request of their commanders. Only after General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Minister of Industry and Minerals and former Director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation, with responsibility for all of Iraq's weapons programs, fled Iraq for Jordan, Iraq was forced to reveal that its biological warfare program was much more extensive than was previously admitted and that the program included weaponization. It is still classified, but a Washington Post report of April 12, 2006, disclosed some of the details of the report. After he began cooperating with U.S. forces in Baghdad in 2003, Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, who ran Saddam's nuclear centrifuge program until 1997, handed over blueprints for a nuclear centrifuge along with some actual centrifuge components, stored at his home – buried in the front yard – awaiting orders from Baghdad to proceed. On first blush, this sounds like easily pigeonholded Human Rights Watch nuttery. By purchasing materials in small amounts through a clandestine global procurement network, Iraq ran rings around non-proliferation laws. The troops are stationed at Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul. In resolution 1441 the Security Council determined that Iraq was in material breach of resolution 687 because it had not fully carried out its obligations to disarm. Syria established its chemical program with Soviet military assistance as a deterrent to Israel. It appears that in the cases where Iraqi exiles were used for the stories about WMD were either ignorant as to the real status of Iraq's WMD or lied to journalists to achieve their own ends.[88]. Both HMX and flyer plates were in fact later found at Iraqi nuclear research sites by United Nations weapons inspectors. I got a problem with that, I got a problem with the American media, and I've told them over and over and over again that this man is a documentable fraud, a fake, and yet they allow him to go on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and testify as if he actually knows what he is talking about. The Iraqi Military and its Weapons of Mass Destruction, Saddam Hussein and Bid Laden alliance. Because in 1990, he didn't work for the Iraqi nuclear program. ‘To defeat Iran, we will fortify Saddam, he may be a killer. While this trial does not cover the Halabja attack, it does cover attacks on other villages during the Iraqi "Anfal" operation alleged to have included bombing with chemical weapons. [40], On March 23, 1988, western media sources reported from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan, that several days before Iraq had launched a large-scale chemical assault on the town. Describes the events preceding and during the Iran-Iraq War, detailing the battles, political negotiations, and consequences of the war. Similarly, former inspector Jonathan Tucker said, "Nobody really knows what Iraq has. You really can not tell from a satellite image what is going on inside a factory." Ritter has also alleged that the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons emits certain gases, which would have been detected by satellite. In the 1980’s, the Reagan White House wasn’t just busy defeating the so-called evil empire of the Soviet Union and out spending and bankrupting the Soviets, they were also engaged in a Middle East Policy in Iraq and Iran, that was aimed at obviously trying to defeat and neutralize the Islamic fundamentalists of Iran which were Americas perceived enemy at the time. After UNSCOM determined such declarations to be incomplete, more pressure was placed on Iraq to declare fully and completely. [citation needed] Iraqi opposition groups say that scientists sprayed the prisoners with anthrax, though no evidence was produced to support these allegations. However, in April and July 1998, the biological weapons team and UNSCOM Executive Chairman assessed that Iraq's declarations were as yet "unverifiable" and "incomplete and inadequate", seven years after the first declarations were given in 1991.[53]. This book takes a searching, critical look at Iraq and related Middle East developments--particularly the huge armory of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was said to have accumulated over the last 20 years. Egyptian interest in chemical weapons may have been prompted by Israel's construction of the Dimona nuclear reactor in 1958. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said in January 2003 that "access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect" and Iraq had "cooperated rather well" in that regard, although "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance of the disarmament. The reports show, for example, that on May 2, 1986, two batches of bacillus anthracis — the micro-organism that causes anthrax — were shipped to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, along with two batches of the bacterium clostridium botulinum, the agent that causes deadly botulism poisoning. The stability enjoyed by Iraq . Gen. Mark Kimmitt, and another U.S. official confirmed that the shell did not have the markings of a chemical agent. ‘. On May 30, 2003, The U.S. Department of Defense briefed the media that it was ready to formally begin the work of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), a fact-finding mission from the coalition of the Iraq occupation into the WMD programs developed by Iraq, taking over from the British-American 75th Exploitation Task Force. 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