Short Descriptor: Media, equipment, supplies, and records evacuation site

Details:

Iraq's full, final, and complete disclosure (FFCD) identifies two losses of media prior to the first BW inspection. The first was said to have occurred during the evacuation of Al-Hakam and the relocation of its headquarters to Al-Asma'a school about 30km away. It is stated that equipment important to the functioning of departments was moved to the school on 22-23 January 1991. Included was an unknown quantify of media of various, but unidentified types. At some time before the return to Hakam in May 1991, Iraq claims the school was broken into and some items stolen and damaged including some of the media.

Iraq states that no investigation of the loss occurred and that the amounts and types of media cannot now be recalled. The figures in the material balance table of the FFCD indicate that more than 900kg of media were "lost," including more than 700kg of peptone, which is relevant to Clostridium perfringens (Agent G) production. There would appear to be no basis for these figures other than a calculation designed to account for all the media, i.e., so that the material balance equals zero.

UNSCOM has reason to believe that no media were stored at the schoolhouse and that none were stolen. Documents support the belief that it served as an alternative site.

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	Updated February 2006