Subject: Economic/Industrial Issues





                         Economic/Industrial Issues



                         Iraqi Postwar Reconstruction











                    Damage to Iraqi Industrial Base

               (Information available as of 22 March 1991)







                      Capacity         Severe

Category             Inoperable        Damage        Remarks

                      (percent)       (percent)

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Biological warfare      100              95            Minimal    

                                                       production 

                                                       within     

                                                       months













Chemical warfare         75              85            Some       

                                                       production

                                                       could resume

                                                       when power

                                                       becomes    

                                                       available











Nuclear                  NA              80          Does not refer

                                                     to production

                                                    capacity but to

                                                    destruction of

                                                  nuclear research 

                                                    reactors and

                                                      laboratories.