HABBANIYAH POSS CW PROD FACILITY II
Filename:6910666.6
SUBJECT: HABBANIYAH POSS CW PROD FACILITY II
PATHFINDER RECORD NUMBER: 106666
GENDATE: 950718
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ENVELOPE RATMCIAB YEKDQA 7384 0942010-MIDO--YEKDQX
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[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
HABBANIYAH POSS CW PROD FACILITY II
[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
DES/--[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] (BEFORE COALITION AIR
CAMPAIGN)--
/
/1 JIB CRANE
/0-2 TRUCKS
/0-1 FRONT-END LOADER
/0-2 FORK LIFTS
/0-2 LIQUID TRANSPORT TRUCKS (SEE DESCRIPTION BELOW)
/
/
/
/--OVERVIEW-ANALYTICAL COMMENTS--
/
/HABBANIYAH POSSIBLE CW PRODUCTION FACILITY II WAS SEVERELY
DAMAGED
/DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM. ALL THREE PROBABLE PRODUCTION
/AREAS SUSTAINED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DAMAGE AND MAY HAVE BEEN
/RENDERED INOPERABLE. THE HABBANIYAH II FACILITY IS ASSESSED TO BE
/A PRODUCTION AND ENGINEERING FACILITY, POSSIBLY FOR THE
PRODUCTION
/OF PRECURSOR CHEMICALS AND-OR NERVE AGENTS. SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT
[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] AT THE THREE HABBANIYAH
FACILITIES WAS [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] AT
/IRAQ'S MAIN CW PRODUCTION FACILITY AT SAMARRA [ (b)(1) sec
1.3(a)(4) ].
/PREVIOUSLY, THE MOVEMENT OF TWO LIQUID TRANSPORT TRUCKS BETWEEN
/THE PROBABLE PRECURSOR PRODUCTION PLANT AT HABBANIYAH II AND THE
/SAMARRA CW FACILITY WAS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF HABBANIYAH II'S CW
/CONNECTION. THE ADDITION OF A PROBABLE CHLORINE-ALKALINE
/ELECTROLYSIS PLANT (ONE OF TWO PROBABLE PRECURSOR CHEMICAL LINES)
/AT HABBANIYAH II SUGGESTED IT WAS TO HAVE A CENTRAL ROLE IN
/PRODUCING CW PRECURSOR CHEMICALS, [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ].
/
/SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] DURING THE
PREVIOUS YEAR:
/
/1. BETWEEN DECEMBER 1989 AND MAY 1990, THE FIRST EVIDENCE [
(b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] SUGGESTING THAT PRODUCTION HAD COMMENCED
AT HABBANIYAH II [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]. THIS INCLUDED THE
ARRIVAL AND MOVEMENT OF CYLINDERS NEAR THE POSSIBLE CW PRODUCTION
BUILDING, AS WELL AS AT THE PROBABLE CHLORINE PRODUCTION BUILDING.
AN UPGRADE IN THE AIR
/DEFENSES AROUND THIS FACILITY WAS [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
OF PRODUCTION
/ACTIVITY.
/2. THE IRAQIS COMMENCED CONSTRUCTION OF AN EARTHEN BERM AT THE
/WESTERN PROBABLE CHEMICAL WARFARE (CW) PRECURSOR PRODUCTION
/FACILITY AT HABBANIYAH II IN DECEMBER 1990. THE BERM WAS
/CONSTRUCTED ALONG THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SIDES OF THIS,
/APPARENTLY AS PROTECTION FROM AIR ATTACK.
/3. THE INITIAL DAMAGE TO THIS FACILITY FROM A COALITION AIRSTRIKE
/[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]ON 23 JANUARY 1991.
/4. [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] DAMAGE FROM ANOTHER AIRSTRIKE [
(b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]IN THE WESTERN PROBABLE PRECURSOR
PRODUCTION AREA, THE
/TWIN-LINE PRODUCTION BUILDING, AND IN THE STORAGE AREA.
/5. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE TO THE WESTERN PROBABLE PRECURSOR PRODUCTION
/AREA AND TO THE TWIN-LINE PRODUCTION BUILDING [ (b)(1) sec
1.3(a)(4) ]ON 28 FEBRUARY 1991.
/
/--FACILITY DESCRIPTION--
/
/HABBANIYAH II IS ONE OF THREE INITIALLY IDENTICAL CHEMICAL
/ENGINEERING AND PRODUCTION FACILITIES IN CENTRAL IRAQ, AND IS
/APPROXIMATELY 37 NM NORTHWEST OF BAGHDAD AND 26 NM SOUTH OF
/SAMARRA. THE FACILITY IS LOCATED ADJACENT TO A CANAL,
/APPROXIMATELY 4 NM SOUTHEAST OF HABBANIYAH I [ (b)(1) sec
1.3(a)(4) ]AND 8
/NM WEST OF HABBANIYAH III [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ].
/
/THE PROBABLE STORAGE AREA, AT THE EAST END OF THIS FACILITY,
/CONSISTS OF FOUR IDENTICAL, RECTANGULAR, DRIVE-THROUGH, PROBABLE
/STORAGE BUILDINGS. A QUONSET HUT BUILDING IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE
/WESTERNMOST PROBABLE STORAGE BUILDING. ONE PROBABLE STORAGE
/BUILDING WAS DESTROYED AND TWO WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED. THESE
/DRIVE-THROUGH BUILDINGS ARE CONNECTED BY A NETWORK OF ROADS WIDE
/ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE LARGE TRUCKS. THE AREA IS CURRENTLY
/LITTERED WITH DEBRIS AS A RESULT OF BOMB DAMAGE.
/
/THE EASTERN PROBABLE PRECURSOR CHEMICAL PRODUCTION AREA WAS STILL
/UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AND FOR THE MOST PART, REMAINED INTACT. IT
/CONSISTS OF A MULTI-STORY BUILDING (UNDER CONSTRUCTION), A LARGE
/PIPE GALLERY, 12 CYLINDRICAL VERTICAL STORAGE TANKS (UNDER
/CONSTRUCTION) ON A CONCRETE PAD, AND A RECTANGULAR BUILDING WITH
/AN ATTACHED VERTICAL STORAGE TANK. THE REMNANTS OF A SMALL
/BUILDING THAT WAS DAMAGED BY AIRSTIKES IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE 12
/CYLINDRICAL VERTICAL STORAGE TANKS AND THE STORAGE AREA. THE
/STORAGE TANK AREA ADJACENT TO THIS BUILDING PROBABLY SUSTAINED
/MINIMAL DAMAGE.
/
/THE TWIN-LINE PRODUCTION BUILDING HAS TWO HIGH-BAY SECTIONS
/FORMING A RECTANGULAR MAIN HALL WITH L-SHAPED EXTENSIONS AT EACH
/END. THIS BUILDING WAS EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED DURING THE AIR
/CAMPAIGN. THE WESTERN WING OF THE BUILDING WAS DESTROYED AND THE
/ROOF OF ONE OF ITS HIGH-BAY SECTIONS HAD COLLAPSED.
/
/THE WESTERN PROBABLE PRECURSOR PRODUCTION AREA CONSISTS OF SEVEN
/ROOFED STRUCTURES CONNECTED BY A T-SHAPED PIPE GALLERY AND A
/STORAGE TANK AREA CONTAINING FIVE STORAGE TANKS. THIS AREA
/PROBABLY CONTAINED THE PROBABLE CHLORINE-ALKALINE ELECTROLYSIS
/PLANT. DAMAGE WITHIN THIS AREA INCLUDED THE DESTRUCTION OF A
/POSSIBLE PRODUCTION BUILDING, A POSSIBLE FILLING BUILDING, TWO
/OTHER STRUCTURES, AND ONE STORAGE TANK. THE REMAINING FOUR
/STORAGE TANKS WERE RUPTURED. THE REMNANTS OF A ROOFED STRUCTURE
/IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE AREA HAD AN EXTERNAL MATERIALS
/CONVEYOR THAT IS STILL STANDING. A LARGE VERTICAL STORAGE TANK
/ALSO REMAINED INTACT.
/
[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
ANALYST -- [ (b)(6)
/[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
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