European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and Stripe crisis in the Gull 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 s government each year turns out More than 1,000 tons of chemical warfare agents including Blister causing Mustard Gas and nerve Gas according to a sword of the arabs a 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 soviets 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. That uranium however is subject to International inspection and its diversion to weapons would be a formal breach of the non proliferation treaty not signed by against the diplomats. Iraq. Such a diversion could provoke inter according to imports reaching foreign National censure making it harder for ministries in Eun pc and elsewhere the Baghdad to acquire equipment and tech iraqis had Cut off the i Sions electricity ology for the other programs. And other utilities saturday after the Diplo Eisenstadt said Iraq was unlikely at t his Mats refused to close their missions time to opt Lor the crude smaller bombs. Iraq invaded Kuwait aug. 2 and later the Gas Centrifuge equipment also annexed it. Baghdad now considers Kun used by Pakistan and Brazil is easy to wait part of Iraq and insists the Zembas disperse and conceal and a might enable a a a Iraq to clandestinely develop a nuclear weapons production capability while formally preserving its credentials As a signatoi7 of the n it a he said. Predicting that Iraq will stockpile chemical a and possibly biological Wear a satellite photo of Kuwait City above shows the Gulf coastline and a map below shows the Sites of some of the foreign embassies. Embassies defy order for 2nd Day Nicosia Cyprus apr defiant diplomats in Kuwait City held out for a second Day sunday in several embassies nned by iraqi troops who have Cut of of Power water and telephones to Force them 6ut. But there were no reports that the iraqis who had ordered All embassies closed by Friday were using Force British United states a a West Germai. Hungarian 9 canal anal sics Are no longer needed. Reports on sunday said the ., British French hungarian and West German embassies were still surrounded by iraqi troops who Are refusing to allow anyone in or out. A British foreign office spokesman said Contact was still possible with the 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 Dinar on for the foreseeable future a Eisen a a a a Viya. Stadt said Iraq in the near future is sex four diplomats holed up in their embassy Bakir and will be flown out of Turkey Pec cd to produce chemical missile a through Normal diplomatic Means Quot and sometime monday she said warheads a vastly increasing the lethality that morale was High. A but an additional 54 or 55 personnel of its strategic  he did not elaborate. But some other mostly men who had been stationed in such capabilities enable Iraq to coerce governments said diplomats at their pm Kuwait Are still in Baghdad and we have its smaller neighbors and threaten Israel basses were free to come and go. It a. A. From a position of  he said. A number of diplomatic dependents in not secured their release a 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 states on the basis of . Security Council Resolution 662, which Calls on Ait member states to a refrain from any action. That might be interpreted As an indirect recognition of the  acceptance of the iraqi demand to dose foreign embassies could be construed As recognition of the annexation. T a a we we Iii us i inv a11lilaqiiuili desert standoff pitting arabs against arabs near the Saud iraqi Border Al it a the thousands of Arab soldiers camped in the desert Are training with tanks anti aircraft weapons and Gas masks for possible Battle with Iraq saudi military officials said saturday. For the first time since Iraq Itna cd Kuwait on aug. 2, the saudi government escorted reporters to the Border area to see saudi Fig Putian and Monacan 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 their outposts. A 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 com in Force of More than 10,000 men i lie cooperation Council defense ministers have agreed to reinforce their rapid deployment Force in saudi Arabia. Lip to 10,000 troops from six cooperation Council states have been based at the northeastern saudi base of hair Al Batin for the past two years. The joint Arab Force is significant because it is the first time soldiers Hae United against another Arab country Iraq. A