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Dusty Agents and the Iraqi Chemical Weapons Arsenal
Oct. 1, 2002Eric Croddy provides a history of chemical agent production Iraq and details the key technical issues related to the deployment and use of chemical agents.
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Ch'ŏngjin Chemical Fiber Complex
March 1, 2003Capacity: Annual production capacity of 300 tons of pesticides; 10,000 tons of other chemical products, including carbonic acid, formalin (presumably formaldehyde), and phenol; and 30,000 tons of synthetic fiber; at least one source claims this facility has a substantial production capacity for sulfuric acid, on the order of tens of thousands of tons per year.
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Iraq’s “Built-In” WMD System Posed Threat, Former Chief U.N. Inspector Says
Nov. 20, 2003WASHINGTON — Iraq’s lingering WMD architecture, including cadres of weapons scientists, posed a threat to the international community before the United States invaded this year, former chief U.N. weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus told Global Security Newswire yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 17).
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U.S. Intelligence Official Defends 2002 Iraqi WMD Intelligence
Dec. 1, 2003A senior U.S. intelligence official Friday defended the October 2002 national intelligence estimate on alleged Iraqi WMD efforts, saying the report’s conclusions were “solid” even though U.S. forces in Iraq have found little evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, Nov. 20).
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Experts Question Bush’s Assertions of Iraq’s WMD “Capacity”
Feb. 18, 2004Experts have challenged U.S. President George W. Bush’s recent assertion that prewar Iraq had the “capacity” to produce weapons of mass destruction, the Boston Globe reported yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 12).
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Jordan Bans Imports of Weaponizable Fertilizer
Aug. 4, 2004Jordan has banned the import of a fertilizer that could be used as a chemical weapon, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 2).
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Proof of Prewar Iraqi Chemical Weapons Production May Have Been Found, Iraqi Prime Minister Says
Dec. 8, 2004Documents have been found that may prove prewar Iraq produced chemical weapons, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told ITAR-Tass today (see GSN, Nov. 30). He said the documents were discovered near the city of Fallujah (ITAR-Tass, Dec. 8).
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Better Oversight of Chemical Industry Sites Needed, Experts Say
Aug. 27, 2010WASHINGTON --As the world’s declared state stockpiles of chemical warfare materials dwindle, the nonproliferation community is turning its focus to another concern -- a multitude of commercial plants that could be converted to produce weapon agents.
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Thousands of Sites Could be Altered to Produce Chemical Weapons, Expert Says
March 5, 2012Thousands of chemical factories spread across the planet could be reconfigured to produce chemical weapons, Interfax quoted a Russian scientist as saying last week.
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Syria Has Boosted Chemical Arsenal With Iranian Aid: Leaked U.S. Cables
July 30, 2012Syria over the last several years has added to its chemical weapons stockpile thanks to assistance from Iran and shell companies established to procure regulated technology from abroad, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing leaked U.S. diplomatic dispatches and European Union records.
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Syria Trying to Produce More Sarin, U.S. Believes
Oct. 26, 2012The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is attempting to gain access to large amounts of the precursor materials needed to manufacture sarin, a particularly lethal chemical weapon, Wired magazine reported on Thursday, citing anonymous U.S. officials.
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Intelligence Suggests Syria Readying Nerve Agent
Dec. 4, 2012Syrian specialists roughly one week ago started mixing the precursor agents for sarin nerve agent in a potential sign that dictator Bashar Assad could be preparing to mount chemical weapons attacks, Wired reported on Monday, citing an informed anonymous U.S. official.
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