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Thank you very much for the ping. After my reading of hundreds of Iraqis documents, I came to the conclusion that Saddam regime opted to make the precursors required to make WMD instead of the final products and for two main reasons. First the precursors required to make WMD (chemical weapons in particular) are called dual use material i.e it can be used for civilian and military purpose so Saddam regime can easily fool the weapon inspectors by telling them that they are for civilian use. Second the precursors have longer shelf life than the final product and it only require few days to make a final chemical weapon product from the precursors.

I have seen three documents that I did not publish for security reasons talking about specific locations with names of towns where the precursors for chemical weapons and its equipments may be buried. The documents talk about find a site burial for "chemical wastes" and the documents span from 1999-2003 talking about the same subject and involving Saddam Hussein himself. That raised my great suspicion that those are not "chemical waste burial site" but more of burial site for more important chemical materials such as the precursors to chemical weapons. First why is Saddam Hussein himself was involved in these discussions, second where did the Iraqis buried their chemical waste materials before? It make no sense that they did not have a place to bury their chemical waste materials before 1999!.

Long article, but a good one for WMD. Look for the name jveritas in articles like this one. He speaks arabic and has done a lot of translations for FR.