New York Times: CIA bought 400 head of chemical remnants of Saddam’s arsenal
New York Times: CIA bought 400 head of chemical remnants of Saddam’s arsenal
02/17/2015 (18:45)
BAGHDAD / long-Presse
US newspaper revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA bought chemical warheads remnants of the military arsenal, the former Iraqi regime and destroyed during the period between 2005 and 2006. She noted that the CIA bought the waste from a local source did not reveal his identity in Maysan province, attributed to the fear of the fact, however, a “terrorist” or armed groups.
The New York Times in a report on Monday, and seen by the (long-Presse), “The US officials, current and former, revealed her about the CIA CIA through its work with US forces when the occupation of Iraq, the purchase of rockets containing nerve gas repeatedly, from an Iraqi vendor secretive, as part of a previous undercover operation to ensure that the occurrence of those old chemical weapons, however, terrorists or armed groups. ”
The newspaper added that the “extraordinary plan for the purchase of weapons that I knew the process Avars Avarice or greed, has begun since 2005, and continued along the in 2006, where he considered the US military and successful way to prevent the spread of chemical weapons, “noting that” the United States got a result, at least 400 warheads called specular Borak containing chemical agents, and has destroyed, he is one of the internationally banned weapons which he did Saddam Hussein during the era of the eighties of the last century, which were not part of the UN inspection teams tasks which began its work in Iraq after the second Gulf War in 1991 “.
The newspaper quoted officials and veterans of the US military units, saying that “the CIA station CIA in Baghdad began to implement the plan in cooperation with the Military Intelligence Battalion 203 of the US Army, and teams from Class defenses, chemical, and neutralize the explosive material, “indicating that those” officials stressed that many of these missiles were in a state of miserable, and some of them were empty or contain liquids fatal, while the other contained the nerve gas agents (sarin), which was more purity than I expected Agency intelligence because of foot arms. ”
The New York Times said it “published an investigation into the October 2014 past, revealed it for the US Army put his hand on the thousands of warheads hostilities old chemical in Iraq, and the exposure of many Iraqis and American soldiers injured as a result of these weapons, but the US government hid it from the public and the military alike. ”
According to the paper that the “ammunition is a relic of the private weapons program that has been abandoned since for a long time before the year 2003, and ended to be during the US invasion Kokdas battleship buried uses some of the improvised explosive devices industry or sold on the black market on and off. ”
officials said, according to The New York Times that “the purchase of these weapons deals were made by Iraqi source one is willing to sell what possession “, stressing that” the money spent by the United States against those unknown rockets, as well as anything related to the seller, too. ”
The newspaper added that “officials and veterans who talked about the program, did not disclose their names, citing the confidentiality of the details,” indicating that ” the first purchase I got from that type has at the beginning of September of the year 2005, when an Iraqi offer one piece of the warhead specular Borak with a length of 40 Inga only to offer it for sale, where he was sent by the CIA to the United States for testing there. ”
increased US newspaper that ” the seller was aware of CIA station in Baghdad between the duration and again that he has more to sell, where to send its helicopters to the area in south-eastern Iraq to meet the man and the completion of the sale. ” The paper also said that “the warhead specular made locally, was set on a Grad rocket fired from multiple rocket launcher system nozzles during the era of the eighties of the last century, during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988),” afterthought “but it was not yet clear amount produced Iraq of those warheads, or the number that launched them during the Iran-Iraq war. ”
The newspaper quoted military officials as saying that “the seller Iraqi cooperation with the CIA, to prevent them from knowing his name and whether the smuggler or a local official formerly or currently or governmental interface or any something else “, but promised that” the activities bring attention. ”
It is believed the Americans as the newspaper reported that “the weapons were coming from an area near Amarah, Maysan province, near the Iranian border, and does not know whether to get those warheads from ever erected platforms on the front lines during the Iran-Iraq war, or the piles of ammunition scattered in the city. ”
It is noteworthy that the international coalition that fought the war against the former regime in Iraq, carried out after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the destruction of large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and equipment and related materials, as part of sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
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