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Baghdad has mobile facilities for producing bacterial and toxin B W agents; these facilities can evade detection and are highly survivable. Within several days these units probably could produce an amount of agent equal to the total that Iraq produced in the years prior to the Gulf war.

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Baghdad has mobile facilities for producing bacterial and toxin BW agents; these facilities can evade detection and are highly survivable. Within three to six months these units probably could produce an amount of agent equal to the total that Iraq produced in the years prior to the Gulf war.

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Scope Note (U) This National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was requested by the Director of Central Intelligence to address the status of and outlook for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. (C) This Estimate builds on the work and judgments of recent Intelligence Community products · on this issue, including:

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