Comprehensive Report

• Clear operating instructions to be displayed on the
trailer,
• Trailer needs to be lightly armored (shrapnel proof),
• 2 x powder fire extinguishers are required
(6kg total),
• It would be possible to make a smaller version
(enhanced mobility)—if the various pieces of
equipment needed could be procured.SERgsT
Evaluation of the Documents Pertaining to the
Trailers Recovered from the Al Kindi General
Establishment
Republican Guard urging them to collect the completed
equipment. They did not do so. Al Kindi was
still assembling the second trailer when OIF started.
Both trailers remained at Al Kindi at the start of OIF.
On 19 April 2003 the first trailer, with its equipment
largely intact, was recovered from looters and
exploited by Coalition personnel. On 11 May 2003,
the second trailer was recovered from Al Kindi. It
appeared to have suffered some looting. It too was
exploited by Coalition personnel.
The exploitation effort included visiting Al Kindi.
Managers, engineers, and scientists who had been
involved in the project were debriefed. They provided
copies of supporting documents. The equipment was
measured, photographed, and samples taken of material
within the first system.
Summary
Al Kindi and the Republican Guard Command
signed a contract on 23 June 2001 under which Al
Kindi would produce two hydrogen generating units
for what was described as weather air stations for
50,000,000 Iraqi Dinars. Work was scheduled to last
16 months from 1 July 2001 to 1 November 2002.
Work went more slowly than planned. Al Kindi
blamed the State Enterprise for Heavy Equipments
Engineering (SEHEE) in Baghdad, the sub-contractor
that fabricated the reactor vessels. There were
discussions concerning the provision of towing
vehicles, an item missing from the original contract.
Al Kindi failed to achieve the contract completion
date in November 2002, and informed the Republican
Guard of a six-month delay. In December 2002,
in its semi-annual declaration to the UN, Al Kindi
listed the ‘production station for H2 gas’ along with
many other projects then on hand. The first of the
two trailer-borne units was completed in early 2003.
A joint Al Kindi and Republican Guard group tested
the system on 11 March 2003. They concluded that,
although the equipment produced hydrogen according
to the specifications, there were many unsatisfactory
features. Despite this, in late March 2003, the
Military Industrial Commission (MIC) wrote to the
Documents
Al Kindi provided a dozen documents and working
notes. This material was translated and analyzed. For
ease of understanding this material is presented as a
chronology:
23 June 2001. Contract No. 73/MD/RG/2001 for the
fabrication of 2 hydrogen generation units is issued at
a total cost of 500,000,000 Iraqi Dinars. The specifications
are listed.
July 2001. Start date of Al Kindi contract for the
production of the trailers.
5 February 2002. Al Kindi letter to Republican Guard
discussing use of small towing vehicle to pull trailers.
15 October 2002. Al Kindi letter to Republican Guard
informing them of late running of contract.
After 15 October 2002. Undated chart labeled Technical
Progress.
1 November 2002. Theoretical end date of contract—
6-month extension requested.
15 December 2002. Al Kindi mentions the station for
generating hydrogen gas for a semi-annual declaration
to UNMOVIC.
Biological
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