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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] from the senate intell committe [b]C. Iraq Was in the Final Stages of Development of the Al Samoud Missile (2000), May Be Preparing to Deploy the Al Samoud (2001), and Was Deploying the Al Samoud and Ababil-100 Short Range Ballistic Missiles, Both Which Exceed the 150-km UN Range Limit (2002) (U) The IC's assessments about Iraq's al Samoud and Ababil-100 missiles changed progressively in 2000, 2001, and 2002 as intelligence reporting showed that Iraq was continuing to advance in its development of these missile systems. (U) Since at least 1998, the IC had assessed that the al Samoud had a range greater than the 150-km allowed by the UN. This assessment was based on information extrapolated from Iraq's UN declarations in which Iraq provided details of the missile and engine parameters. The system had been flight tested nine times, with five failures, at the time of the 2000 NIE, leading the IC to assess that the system was in the final stages of development. ( )Intelligence provided to the Committee showed that by 2001, Iraq was progressing with development of the al Samoud, but still had not deployed the missiles. By 2002, however, Iraq had extracted the engines for 30 to 50 al Samoud missiles between mid-2000 and late 2001. Intelligence also showed that Iraq had conducted at least 25 al Samoud flight tests since 2000, the majority of which had been successful. A report from provided to the Committee assessed that in August 2002 two al Samoud missiles flew to ranges above the UN permitted range. Additional an indication that the missile had been deployed. The deployment was confirmed by Iraq's declaration to the UN in December 2002 that it had fielded the al Samoud II. ( ) The NIE also judged that Iraq was developing an extended-range variant of the al Samoud missile with an assessed range of up to 300 km, and said that on DELETED 2002, the missile was flight tested beyond the 150-km range limit "perhaps as far as 300 km." SENTENCE DELETED The IC assessed that DELETED was probably the result of an Iraqi effort to enlarge the al Samoud airframe to accommodate more propellant, which could extend its range to 300 km. ( ) When Iraq provided its Currently Accurate, Full and Complete Disclosure to the UN in December 2002, Iraq admitted to developing an al Samoud II variant, but said the range of this variant was also 150 km. Iraq admitted that the missile had flown beyond 150 km during 13 of 23 flight tests, but only by at most 33 km. The data provided by Iraq in the declaration caused the IC to change its assessment of the possible range of the al Samoud II, which it corrected in a February 2003 NIE, Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015. The NIE said that Iraq's declaration indicated that the al Samoud II has a larger diameter, which was the cause of DELETED noted by the IC during the January 2002 flight test. The NIE said, "The al Samoud data provides an alternate explanation for the DELETED the DELETED flight test last year." Iraq reported that the missile flew 171 km, and the new NIE judged, based on modeling of the new al Samoud II data, that 171 km was near the expected range. ( ) DELETED provided to the Committee from 2002 also indicated that the Ababil-100 had been flight tested 18 to 20 times since 2000, and that in DELETED 2002 a probable Ababil-100 DELETED had arrived at a tactical surface to surface missile facility. In late May 2002, Ababil-100 launch boxes were DELETED at a tactical missile and support facility and Ababil-100 missile launchers were DELETED at a barracks and training facility, DELETED. The deployment was not assessed to be complete, however. [/b] [URL=http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_rpt/iraq-wmd-intell_chapter6-c.htm]http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_rpt/iraq-wmd-intell_c hapter6-c.htm[/URL] the short answer is NO... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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