Richard

Can you reference anything that indicates that UK built the plant for the
purpose of creating chemical weapons.

Until Iraq used the chemical weapons, was it know that they would create and
use those weapons.

Your are referencing 20/20 hindsight over the past results of a prior
action.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ali" <[log in to unmask]>
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Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> 18/03/03 14:19:17 >>>
>I don't know much about what kind of 'chemical weapons' were used in the
Iran-Iraq war.  No one has been able to show me much more than Botulism
toxin or bug spray.
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Mustard gas and lethal poison gases. (Courtesy of a plant the UK built for
Saddam and identified by Colin Powell as a source of chemical munitions).

"The war was clearly going against Iraq by 1983, when Hussein ordered the
use of  chemical weapons against Iran. The first of 10 documented chemical
attacks in the war was in August 1983 and caused hundreds of casualties,
according to CIA sources. The largest documented attack was a February 1986
strike against al-Faw, where mustard gas and tabun may have affected up to
10,000 Iranians"
http://www.dix.army.mil/PAO/post03/post013103/chemical.htm


"One of the chemical-warfare instances reported by Iran, at
Hoor-ul-Huzwaizeh on 13 March 1984, has since been conclusively verified by
an international team of specialists dispatched to Iran by the United
Nations Secretary General. The evidence adduced in the report by the UN team
lends substantial credence to Iranian allegations of Iraqi chemical warfare
on at least six other occasions during the period from 26 February to 17
March."
http://projects.sipri.se/cbw/research/factsheet-1984.html

Richard Ali
Smith & Williamson Corporate Services Limited





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