European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday August 27,1990 i a a a. Fit j % v a p. A / quote Quot Vav a a a a. A if Luis ill i 0&Quot Lett Iraq plans to develop a weapons Washington apr Iraq not Only has become a major Poison Gas producer but also has revived efforts to make atomic weapons which were thwarted by israelis 1981 bombing of a nuclear reactor a report says. President Saddam Hussein a government each year turns out More than 1,000 tons of chemical warfare agents including Blister causing Mustard Gas and nerve Gas according to Quot sword of the arabs Quot a Survey of iraqi weaponry to be issued shortly by the Washington Institute for near East policy a private research organization. Sustained production at that level would give Iraq the worlds largest chemical weapons stockpile if the United states and soviet Union carry out obligations of a treaty they signed last june to reduce their stocks to 5,000 tons by the year 2002. Current . Stockpiles arc estimated at 30,000 tons while the Sovi cts have an estimated 50,000. Iraq also has an Active program to make germ weapons even though it has signed but not ratified a 1972 treaty prohibiting development or Possession of biological weapons said the report obtained by the associated press. After Israel bombed iraqis Osi raq reactor in 1981, the iraqi nuclear weapons project remained dormant until 1987, after which Baghdad turned to the Gas Centrifuge method of enriching uranium fuel the study said. This could give Iraq the ability to produce nuclear weapons in five to 10 years depending on the amount of equipment and technology it continues to draw from abroad the study added. Long before that however Iraq had the capability and materials to build one or two Small Low yield atomic bombs using the 12.5 kilograms 27.5 pounds of French supplied uranium in its Possession said Michael Eisenstadt the author of the report. A that uranium however is subject to International inspection and its diversion to weapons would be a formal breach of he non proliferation treaty not signed by Iraq. Such a diversion could provoke International censure making it harder for Baghdad to acquire equipment and technology for the other programs. Eisenstadt said Iraq was unlikely at this time to opt for the crude smaller bombs. The Gas Centrifuge equipment also used by Pakistan and Brazil is easy to disperse and conceal and Quot might enable Iraq to clandestinely develop a nuclear weapons production capability while formally preserving its credentials As a signatory of the not a he said. Predicting that Iraq will stockpile chemical Quot and possibly biological weapons for the foreseeable future Quot Eisenstadt said Iraq in the near future is expected to produce chemical missile warheads Quot vastly increasing the lethality of its strategic  such capabilities enable Iraq to coerce its smaller neighbors and threaten Israel Quot from a position of strength Quot he said. A satellite photo of Kuwait City above shows the Gulf coastline and a map below shows the Sites of some of the foreign  Truw Aitay defy order for 2nd Day Nicosia Cyprus apr defiant diplomats in Kuwait City held out for a second Day sunday in several embassies ringed by iraqi troops who have Cut off Power water and telephones to Force them out. Bui there were no reports that the iraqis who had ordered All embassies closed by Friday were using Force against the diplomats. According to reports reaching foreign ministries in Europe and elsewhere the iraqis had Cut off the missions electricity and other utilities saturday after the diplomats refused to close their missions Iraq invaded Kuwait aug. 2 and later annexed it. Baghdad now considers Kuwait part of Iraq and insists the Cumbas sics Are no longer needed. Reports on sunday said the ., British French hungarian and West German embassies were still surrounded by iraqi troops who arc refusing to allow anyone in or out. A British foreign office spokesman said Contact was still possible with the four diplomats holed up in their embassy a through Normal diplomatic Means and that morale was High. Lie did not elaborate. But some other governments said diplomats at their embassies were free to pome and go. A n n m her o f d i Plombat in depend e n t s3 i n British United states i Canadian i it hungarian Kuwait City ass map Susan Harris a eluding 55 americans who had been held up in Baghdad after leaving Kuwait on saturday were allowed sunday to continue their Overland journey to leave Iraq. Carole Lee Heileman a spokesman for the . Embassy in Ankara Turkey said the 55 americans left Baghdad at 5 . In a 13-car Convoy for the turkish Border. From there they will be taken by bus to the Southern turkish town of Diyarbakir and will be flown out of Turkey sometime monday she said. A but an additional 54 or 55 personnel mostly men who had been stationed in Kuwait Are still in Baghdad and we have not secured their release Quot Heileman said. The United states the 12 european Community states and Many other countries have refused to close their Kuwait embassies calling the closure order a violation of International Laws on diplomats rights. Iraq maintains that Kuwait ceased to exist after its annexation by Baghdad and the ouster of its ruling Royal family. But this claim has been rejected by the vast majority of . Member Stales on the basis of . Security Council Resolution 662, which Calls on All member states to a refrain from any action. That might be interpreted As an indirect recognition of the  acceptance of the iraqi demand to close foreign embassies could be construed As recognition of the annexation. Desert standoff pitting arabs against arabs near tiie Sall do Iraq Border apr the thousands of Arab soldiers camped in the desert arc training with tanks anti aircraft weapons and Gas masks for possible Battle with Iraq saudi military officials said saturday. For the first Tine Sinee Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug. 2. The saudi government escorted Ivy tories to the Border area to see saudi egyptian and moroccan troops in the Field. Military officials said syrians and troops from other persian Gulf countries Are also deployed in the joint Arab command but reporters were not taken to 1 heir outposts. Quot they Are on Alert to either move Forward stay or pull Back Here to prepare to defend the Border a said a major general who commands a joint saudi Gulf cooperation Council Force of More than 10,000 men. 1 he cooperation Council defense ministers have agreed to reinforce their rapid deployment Force in saudi Arabia. Up to 10,000 troops from six cooperation Council states have been based at the northeastern saudi base of hair Al Bairn for the past two years. The joint Arab Force is significant because it is the it St time soldiers have United against another Arab country Iraq