Comprehensive Report

Site exploitations have verified that material was
buried at the Mustansariyah site, although ISG has
been unable to determine the identity of items present
at the site.
• The exploitation team that visited the Mustansariyah
site was able to excavate various vials and
broken glassware that was buried in the yard, but
the contents of these containers could not be verified.
• In September, an ISG exploitation team returned
to the site to take various soil samples for analysis,
which came up negative for the presence of BW
agents or toxins. The samples were not analyzed for
the presence of suspect chemicals.
• According to a chemical forensic lab report, no suspect
chemicals were found in three contact samples
taken from various locations in the house.
and beautiful,” which indicates that he probably has
little training in chemistry and may not have had
direct knowledge about the identity of the chemicals.
• A former IIS chemist with direct access claims that
material at the Mustansariyah site was relocated to
the Salmadiyah warehouses in 2002.
The use of these warehouses for the storage of
chemicals and equipment was corroborated, but the
site was thoroughly sanitized after the first coalition
visit, preventing complete exploitation of the warehouses’
contents.
• An exploitation team visited the site in April 2003
and found two warehouses which contained laboratory
chemicals, lab equipment, and documents. The
specific chemicals were not detailed in the exploitation
report, but no CW agents were present in the
warehouses.
Salmadiyah Warehouses/Burial Site (Djerf
al-Naddaf, N 33 15 22.0 E 044 33 03.2)
The burial and destruction of chemicals also
occurred at two M16 warehouses located near the
former M16 facility in Djerf al-Naddaf.
• IIS officers moved chemicals from a warehouse in
the Karada district of Baghdad to be disposed of at
a site in Salmadiyah in March 2003, according to
reporting. The report stated that chemical containers
of various sizes were buried in a deep pit and
that several of the containers were broken either
during the move or when they were placed in the
pit.
• A former IIS officer with direct access to the
information reported that chemicals stored at the
Mustansariyah site were moved to the warehouses
in Salmadiyah where some were destroyed. A burn
pit was near the warehouse where IIS officers took
some of the chemicals and poured them directly
into the ground.
• In a separate report, the same former IIS officer
describes the chemicals as being CW components,
but the source also describes the chemical components
in non-scientific terms, such as “impressive
• In April 2003, IIS officers destroyed the warehouse
which contained the material, according to a former
IIS officer with direct access to the information
(several other warehouses in the area had already
been destroyed by coalition bombing).
• US military officers revisited the site in July 2003,
but found that the warehouse had been destroyed
(see Figures 17, 18, and 19).
Karwai Burial Sites (Al Adaim Desert,
N 34 13 E 044 31)
The IIS buried equipment and chemicals, which
may have included CW precursors, at a remote site
North of Baghdad in the mid-1990s. ISG has been
unable to corroborate that CW-related chemicals
were hidden at any of the 5 exploited sites.
• An exploitation team originally visited the sites in
April 2003 where they recovered equipment used
for animal testing, and burned CS grenades. Buried
chemicals were also located, but the team determined
that sample analysis would be unfeasible, so
the identity of the chemicals remains unknown.
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