4.2 |
Iraq WMD assessments, July to September 2002
718.
The Assessment
also stated:
“Other
recent intelligence indicates that:
•
production
of chemical and biological weapons is taking place;
•
…”
719.
The Executive
Summary of the dossier stated:
“As a
result of the intelligence we judge that Iraq has:
•
continued
to produce chemical and biological weapons;
•
military plans
for the use of chemical and biological weapons …;
•
command and
control arrangements in place to use chemical and
biological
weapons
…;
•
developed
mobile laboratories for military use corroborating earlier
reports
about the
mobile production of biological warfare agents;
•
pursued
illegal programmes to procure controlled materials of potential
use
in the
production of chemical and biological weapons programmes
…”392
720.
The main text
of the dossier stated:
•
“Iraq has a
usable chemical and biological weapons capability … which
has
included
recent production of chemical and biological
agents.”393
•
“Intelligence
shows that Iraq has continued to produce chemical
agent.”394
•
“We know
from intelligence that Iraq has continued to produce biological
warfare
•
“UNSCOM
established that Iraq considered the use of mobile biological
agent
production
facilities. In the past two years evidence from defectors has
indicated
the
existence of such facilities. Recent intelligence confirms that the
Iraqi military
have
developed mobile facilities.”396
•
“Iraq has a
variety of delivery means.”397
392
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
pages
5-6.
393
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
page
17.
394
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
page
19.
395
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
page
21.
396
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
page
22.
397
Iraq’s
Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Assessment of the British
Government, 24
September 2002,
page
22.
253