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Middle East Review of International Affairs
How Iraq Conceals and Obtains its Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Ibrahim al-Marashi
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Abstract
After the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein conducted a systematic concealment operation to disrupti the mission of the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM), whose mandate was to eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This article surveys and analyzes the different techniques used to fool and foil inspectors so as to conceal continued development or possession of these weapons.
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Note *: Ibrahim al-Marashi is a research associate at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey, California as well as a lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is currently working on a project on Iraqi intelligence operations in northern Iraq and Kuwait. He is also the author of Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: a Guide and Analysis which appeared in the September 2002 issue of MERIA. Back