Posted on 10/08/2004 5:07:23 PM PDT by freestyle
Al Tariq Company’s
Habbaniyah I/Fallujah III Site
The Al Tariq Company produced castor oil by extraction
from 1992 until 2002, using an Iraqi-designed
and produced crushing mill purchased locally. Al
Tariq offi cials complied with UNSCOM on the
requirement that they burn the bean mash left over
from production while UN inspectors remained in
Iraq. This open pit burning of mash was no longer
observed after the plant was reconstructed, post-Operation
Desert Fox bombing, and went operational. The
mash, which took days to burn and created signifi cant
smoke, was burned in pits near the Fallujah III facility.
At one point, Al Tariq offi cials considered using
the bean mash in animal feed, but this idea was never
implemented.
• Farmers at Al ‘Aziziyah claim their land was taken
by Husayn Kamil in 1994 or 1995 to be utilized
as dedicated lands for the growth of caster plants,
the end user of which was exclusively the Al Tariq
facility. The MIC reportedly worked in collaboration
with both the State Company for Industrial
Crops and the Ministry of Agriculture to plant
“cover crops” –other crops such as wheat-in order
to mask the growth of the castor plants. In 2001, an
employee of the Al Tariq Facility named “Husayn”
told an individual at the farm that the castor beans
were being used by the Al Tariq Facility in order to
“produce poisons that would kill humans.”
• Historically this site has been of concern because
the castor oil plant could have potentially been used
in the first step, mainly the castor bean mash, in the
production of the BW agent Ricin. Iraq stated several
different ways in which the ricin in the mash
was being inactivated; yet UNSCOM showed that
active ricin could readily be isolated from the mash
after the castor oil was removed.
• During this time period, officials from Ibn-al-
Baytar expressed an interest in purchasing castor
oil from Al Tariq for use in pharmaceuticals. The
Al Tariq facility’s oil was not competitively priced,
however, and because it was extracted by solvents
instead of cold pressing, Al Tariq’s oil was not
considered to be “food grade”, or appropriate for
66 medical/pharmaceutical uses. At one point, SDI
purchased fi ve tons of Al Tariq oil for pharmaceutical
purposes, but upon sampling the oil, immediately
deemed it as inappropriate for medical
use and sent all of the castor oil back to Al Tariq.
Because of these issues, Ibn-al-Baytar decided to
procure castor beans directly from the same source
as Al Tariq, the Company for Industrial Forests
(CIF). After production ended in 2002, Al Tariq was
left with unwanted castor oil, but no customers. The
leftover castor oil was kept in barrels at Fallujah III.
During the work of the UN and ISG, a number of
facilities have been identified as having carried
out or have been assessed as capable of carrying
out R&D on viruses. These facilities include the
Al Kindi Company for Veterinary Vaccines and
Drugs, the Al ‘Amiriyah Serum and Vaccine Institute,
the Al Razi Research Center, the Al Dawrah
Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine plant (before 1996
when UNSCOM disabled the air handling system),
Baghdad University College of Veterinary Medicine
at Abu Ghurayb and Al Hakam before its destruction
(also in 1996). Al Hakam and Al Dawrah FMDV
facilities are described above.
**Note, the above is an exerpt of the entire report.**
Volume 3 is about:
Iraq's Chemical Warfare Program
Biological Warfare
Glossary and Acronyms
I've hidden 5 lbs. of silver bar in New jersey. I defy anyone to find it. p.s. new jersey is a lot smaller than Iraq.
Wasn't there a thwarted ricin attack in England last year?
You wrote:
I'm just asking... How are we certain that no WMD exist in Fallujah and the other "no-go" zones in Iraq?
We aren't.:-)
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