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... By 1987 a secure biological research facility had been developed at the Salman Pak site and by the mid 1990's other civilian facilities were taken over and adapted for military research, al-Dawrah Foot and Mouth Vaccine Institute and Amariyah Sera and Vaccine Institute are names of but a few. At the outbreak of the Gulf War we can see from Iraqi declarations to the UN that vast quantities of chemical and biological agents had been stockpiled. According to the figures submitted1, 19,000 litres of botulinum toxin, 8,500 litres of anthrax, 2,200 litres of aflatoxin, 2,850 tonnes of mustard gas, 210 tonnes of tabun, 795 tonnes of sarin and cyclosarin and 3.9 tonnes of VX. What makes these numbers of particular concern is the willingness the Regime had shown to using this form of weaponry during the Iran-Iraq war. This willingness was reiterated on Friday 17th March 1988 when Iraqi warplanes dropped ...