G. Baghdad Probably Is Hiding Small Scale Agent Production Within Legitimate Research Laboratories
( ) The IC noted in the NIE that its knowledge of Iraq's small scale agent production hidden within legitimate research laboratories rested on "limited intelligence reporting on suspicious activity at only a few research centers." The NIE said one of the facilities, the al Basel Research Center which Iraq had declared as part of its pre Gulf War CW program, "may be collaborating on CW related tasks" with a suspected chemical facility, Habbaniyah II (another name for Fallujah II)
( ) Intelligence reporting provided to the Committee did show that these facilities "may" have been collaborating on a sensitive project to produce nerve agent. SENTENCE DELETED A separate DELETED report showed that the deputy director of the Tareq State Establishment, which operates Habbaniyah II, was planning to purchase DELETED equipment through the UN's Oil For Food Program in May 2002, but there was SENTENCE DELETED
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