Subject: IRAQ DOMESTIC IMPACT OF WAR

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IRAQ:  DOMESTIC IMPACT OF THE WAR







JANUARY 1991







HIGHLIGHTS







--STRATEGIC AND NONCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS FACILITIES HAVE

BEEN THE HARDEST HIT OF IRAQ'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES.







SOME OF IRAQ'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES ARE EXTENSIVELY

DAMAGED, BUT MANY BUILDINGS AND SUSPECT NUCLEAR SITES

INTACT. IRAQ'S BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL MUNITION PRODUCTION

CAPACITIES HAVE BEEN REDUCED          BY COALITION

AIRSTRIKES. BAGHDAD ALMOST CERTAINLY RETAINS THE ABILITY TO

USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS







AT THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER. THE

BUILDING CONTAINING THE          RESEARCH

REACTOR SHOWS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE,

THE

RESEARCH REACTOR PROBABLY HAS BEEN

DESTROYED.

FUEL

FABRICATION LABORATORY AND A LABORATORY SUSPECTED OF

URANIUM ENRICHMENT RESEARCH ALSO WERE DESTROYED.

DAMAGE WAS INFLICTED ON A LABORATORY CAPABLE OF SMALL-

SCALE REPROCESSING.



--IRAQ'S CHEMICAL WARFARE FACILITIES ALSO HAVE BEEN

DAMAGED. AT SAMARRA CW FACILITY,

BUILDINGS PROBABLY USED TO FILL AMMUNITION AND

WAREHOUSES WERE          DAMAGED. TWO PRODUCTION

BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED, AND          DAMAGE

OTHER PRODUCTION-RELATED BUILDINGS,

PROBABLE FILLING BUILDING, AND          STORAGE

BUNKERS ARE          INTACT. AT THE HABBANIYAH

PRECURSOR PRODUCTION FACILITY,

DAMAGED.







BUILDINGS

DESTROYED AT THE ABU GHURAYB AND TAJI

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE FACILITIES.          BW

PRODUCTION PLANT IN ABU GHURAYB IS INTACT.

BUNKERS

DESTROYED.



--THE SALMAN PAK CBW RESEARCH, PRODUCTION, AND STORAGE

FACILITY ALSO WAS DAMAGED.

BUNKERS,

 DESTROYED, AND          DAMAGED. 







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