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Analysis of the Videotapes Compiled From Video Recce Mission 5/6 November 2003

Nuclear - Annex C

 

Team Delta Tape 1    
Tape Reference MGRS/ Room Number Object Comment
01:39:19 MB 55551 74359 Rubbish dump, with discarded scientific equipment including Andersen samplers and 3-channel analyzer. Exploit
08:42:16 MB 55512 74351 Collection of documents. Collected on 11 November 2003. Exploit
09:34:01 MB55520 74367 Biological files and documents. Collected on 11 November 2003 Exploit
11:31:00 MB 55653 74336 Unconfirmed Russian smoke generators?  
14:55:00 MB 55545 74016 ISO container, fertilizer and laboratory equipment. Environmental cabinet by Horaius, imported by Kharl Khob.  
16:40:00 MB 55510 74181 Camera Tower  
17:57:00 MB 55457 74006 With exception of Fire Station at this location associated block at the end of the FS and some temporary buildings containing FS stores, all other buildings at complex of Building 151 have been destroyed and are clear. NFA no further action required. NFA
19:10:07 MB 55371 73980 Ruined barrack buildings vicinity of 151, no equipment. Connect with steps, which lead to top of berm. AA positions.  
20:39:20 MB 55467 73920 Expended shell cases burned in a dump, adjacent water tank, and Fire station across road. Some other stores buildings at back of complex. Room containing files and neatly arranged records. Should briefly look at these with a linguist
30:21:00 MB 55608 73719 Camera Tower  
31:08:15 MB 55460 73419 Camera Tower  
32:14:04 MB 55429 73420 Bomb crater, estimated 2,000 lbs Israeli.  
33:05:15 MB 55438 73358 Bomb crater  
33:45:00 MB 55395 73326 Remains of Building 140, no building remains. Bldg 140 destroyed.
35:40:00 MB 55358 73208 Manhole and cable run, down about 6 feet.  
36:28:08 MB 55299 73129 Electricity pylon, surrounded by scrap metal and shelving adjacent to site of Building 140.  
37:26:00 MB 55247 73070 Metal and building rubble. Junk removed from Tuwaitha bombed building in 1991.  
38:10:00 MB 55010 73054 More piles of junk building rubble.  
39:04:28 MB 54760 73099 Bomb crater, another 2000, explosion caused pinnacle in the middle.  
39:38:03 MB 54728 73132 Camera Tower, identifies boxes in junk yard.  
40:35:00 MB 54865 73413 Number of ruined probable guard shacks.  
41:35:00 MB 54868 73453 Ruined guard shack. Barrack garden.  
42:40:00 MB 55155 73566 Full face respirator. Symbol bent minaret at Mosel indicating G Bin Hyer. Two or three symbol of local manufacture in Mosel.  

 

Team Delta Tape 2    
Tape
Reference 		MGRS Object Comment
00:52:13 MB 54380 73136 Camera Tower  
02:27:29 MB 54272 73283 Possible Smoke Canisters  
03:09:27 MB 54163 73483 Camera Tower  
03:48:01 MB 53981 73832 Camera Tower  
05:02:06 MB 53949 73892 Unknown Structure  
06:44:00 MB 53801 74180 Camera Tower  
08:06:29 MB 53938 74363 Camera Tower  
08:50:00 MB 54233 74636 Camera Tower  
10:25:21 MB 54301 74931 Possible concrete tanks.  
11:39:24 MB 54476 74866 Camera Tower  
13:07:14 MB 54522 74793 Cluster of buildings in area of Building 115. Collected 11 November 2003. Exploit
17:06:12 MB 54527 74770 Unused filter system and documents in cluster of buildings in area of Building 115. Collected 11 November 2003. Exploit
17:17:58 MB 54503 7465? Adjacent to health center (inside perimeter). Side road blocked with wrecked bus  
18:33:02 MB 54695 74838 First of a cluster of buildings at Building 90 complex.  
20:27:21 MB 54685 74889 Outbuildings at building 90 complex showing manhole cover and high-capacity rectifiers and document. Exploit
22:00:22 MB 54679 74916 Part of substation complex, showing digging for looters to steal copper cables.  
23:04:07 MB 54692 74925 Substation control room, showing “vynconstruct” equipment. Shot of looters digging to steal cable and water system. Shot of room behind control room and more cable looting.  
28:52:09 MB 54720 74893 Large building at substation, small entrance and large swimming pool type tanks at each end (20 x 6 x 5 deep meters). Sill at Building 90 complex.  
32:28:15 MB 54732 74891 Entry to main building at Building 90 complex. Large hole going down. Evidence of laser, optical, and possible rail gun research. Some documents recovered for CMPC, some video-ed. Shot of jar containing Strontium compound. Exploit. Nuclear and Chemical.

 

Team Delta Tape 3    
Tape Reference MGRS Object Comment
  MB Video of rooms in 90 complex main building. Photon optical bench Cambridge UK. Photos of laser impact on targets. Faraday cage (large).  
25:07:25









31:46:24		 MB 54799
74841		 Electrical control equipment presumed to have come from main building in 90 complex.

Another part of Alcatel equipment, presumed from main building in 90 complex and possibly linked with previous Alcatel device. Presumed important as the equipment was sandbagged for protection.

Jobin Yvon equipment looks expensive.

Expensive looking new Australian equipment in a wooden case, GBC Scientific Equipment, 12 Monterey Road, Dandenong, Victoria 3175 Australia. Passed QA, 29 Oct 2002. Serial Number E1183, passed by “Marg.” GBC Integra, XL, shipped to Medical Scientific Corporation.









Optical spectrometer.
Team Delta Tape 4 (continued)  
33:10:06 MB 54823 74912 Entered building as continuing part of 90 complex with autoclave (large) and incubator/shaker with UNSCOM label B002236.  
43:15:15 MB54013 74969 Oil fired boiler used for steam generation to power autoclave.  
44:42:24 MB 54840 75003 Camera Tower  
46:14:06 MB 54820 75017 Small building at rear of 90 complex with equipment junk inside. Adjacent container with more junk and an object, which looked like part of HT equipment. More detailed examination
51:35:17 MB 55150 74914 Camera Tower  
52:33:27 MB 55268 74721 New building not yet completed.  
Not readable New building not yet completed.  
56:24:19 MB 55293 74244 Wrecked buildings on top of berm.  

 

Team Delta Tape 4    
Tape Reference MGRS Object Comment
02:56:15 MB 55270 73636 View from berms over Tuwaitha complex.  
05:08:28 MB 54962 73609 View from berms over Tuwaitha complex.  
01:25:15 MB 54418 73191 View from berms over Tuwaitha complex.  
03:03:18 MB 54167 73724 View from berms over Tuwaitha complex.  
07:44:14 MB 55975 75412 Area H Trashed Workshop area.  
11:06:05 MB 55949 75488 Area H Trashed Workshop area.  
13:33:29 MB 56070 75324 Area H Trashed Workshop area.  

 

Team Alpha
Tape 5
   
Tape
Reference
MGRS/
Room Number
Object
Comment
00:33:19 MB 54832
74042		 Building 189, underground bunker with surrounded by damage. Entrance located on top and descends into the bunker. System empty NFA.
02:21:08 MB 54839
74060		 Building 188, underground emplacement with entrance at the top. UGF completely empty. NFA.
03:44:13 MB 54816
74043		 Water Tower. (No particular building number) NFA
04:09:08 Not provided Evaporative Cooling Tower NFA
04:45:29 MB 54789
74039		 Underground structures 190 and 191. Steps going down, not explored. Better look?(NFA)
05:42:15

08:37:13

09:50:00
15:45:00
17:40:40
21:20:00
26:36:00
29:30:00




39:30:00

42:


46:40:00
48:20:00
51:30
52:13
57:22		 MB 54875
74024
1021
1023
1023, 1025
1030, 60,
1003

!,
4, 5,
2018





2006, 2002, 2005
1001,
3rd LHS.
Glove box
1007
Laser Laboratory		 Building 12, large brick, two-story structure.
Note windows on the bottom floor are barred. Extensive looting throughout with rooms randomly containing what remains of original equipment, chemical containers and chemical waste storage, evidence of film-processing operation, electrical power equipment and devices, work tables and work stations, laboratory glassware, some office furniture, notebooks, binders and files strewn about, and debris. At least, room was designated as a Spectroscopes Laboratory.
The south end of Building 12 contained new areas under construction, which contained nothing.
Section of Building 12 adjacent to new construction contained much of the same as primary building area.
Southwest end of Building 12 contained vacant rooms with new construction, probably never occupied.



44:00:00 Hazard symbol on door.
Grey building to south of Building 12.
49:00:00 remote manipulator and room with PVC.		 Some exploitation required.

Room 5, 2018







No exploit.

2001, 2002, 2004

1001, laser laboratory

 

Team Alpha Tape 6    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:00:13   Complex of buildings number 167  
00:25:11 55010 74429 Two-story brick structure, northernmost building  
01:15:00   Room 4 Exploit
03:18:00   Room 3 Exploit
05:10:00   Room 11 Exploit
  Room 9  
07:10:00   Room 7 Upstairs binders Exploit
07:14:00   Room 14 computer media Exploit
08:00:00   Room 15 / 16 Design of Information systems Exploit
09:25:00   Room 17  
10:00:00   Room 18 computer media Exploit
    Room 19  
11:59:00   Room 20 Computer/Maths techniques Exploit
13:06:00   Room Technical manuals IMB token ring map of Tuwaitha taken back. Exploit
14:25:00   Eastern building of Complex Exploit
15:00:00   Western Admin Block piled high with documents. Exploit
17:35:00   Documents Exploit
18:20:00   Rabbit warren of offices Exploit
21:00:00   Agricultural program  
21:20:00   Blueprints.  
26:00:00   Papers and ledger  
26:15:00   Document storage area Exploit
30:00:00   Last building of 167 Complex  
30:29:00   Pieces of paper on the floor, torn up. Exploit
32:30:00   Organizational chart  
33:42:00   Ledgers on bookcase. Exploit
35:35:00 54794 73862 Connex Container large, end of road in section E, underground storage/ Building 192 / 76 Exploit
36:50:01 54605 73502 Boiler House NFA
38:38:19 54527 73391 Building 72 Transformer station. Electrolyte production of H2 NFA

 

Team Alpha Tape 7    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:10:00   Area 41? 1015, 1016 & 1017.  
01:21:115 54870 73969 Group of structures number 38. Exploit
01:45:16 54942 73935    
02:14:00   Equipment outside.  
04:10:00 54951 73928    
04:45:00   Building 37 Storage Containers. Welded shut. Exploit
05:05:00   Storage containers 9 feet long.  
06:00:00 54917 73896 Connex Container with soil blocking each end Open/Exploit
  54930 73770 Building 40, 800 mRem/Hour. Do not enter radiation. NFA
07:17:15   Correction to count rate. 800–1,000 cpm  
07:35:00 54999 73833 Underground facility Building 200. Radioactive source at far end. 800–1,000 cpm Gamma.  
08:53:00 55018 73846 Building 31 Water-cooling tower. Building destroyed. NFA
09:30:00 55228 73797 196 underground facility personnel bunker. NFA
10:16:10 55229 73780 Building 30, completely destroyed. NFA
10:41 55229 73734 Building 19, completely destroyed. NFA
11:00:00 55341 73770 Structure 170. NFA
11:37:20 55099 73809 Building 32 storage buildings. NFA
12:10:00 55239 74060 Building 168, small, with two rooms. Water filtration system, second room empty. NFA

 

Team Beta Tape 8    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:00:00 54676 73819 Building 65 & 66 used to be one large building, behind is another building not on map, at end of 65. NFA
01:11:25 54657 73866 Storage Tank writing on blackboard. Building 64 Linguist
01:35:17 54656 73867 Building 64 Storage Tank writing on blackboard. Linguist

 

Team Beta Tape 9    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:05:00 54931 74297 Building 118 UGF NFA
03:40:08 54750 74166 Building 187 NFA
06:35:23 54692 74122 Building 14 NFA
08:57:25 54692 74189 Building 186 UGF Entrance blocked NFA
12:42:27 54661 74215 Bldg 184 NFA
15:31:28 54637 74283 Bldg not on map entrance. Above ground bunker 54639 74288, 54649 74286, 54638 74277, 54631 74286 NFA
18:00:00 54639 74289 Liquid Scintillation analyzer 1600CA Tri-Carb  
18:13:11 54638 74288 North East Corner  
18:34:28 54649 74286 Corner 2  
18:56:26 54638 74276 Corner 3  
19:40:00 54631 74287 Corner 4  
20:08:25 54795 74562 Bldg 194 is in fact not a UGF but is a huge water tank flowing approx 3 m deep. NFA
22:21:19 54815 74498 Bldg 195 Cylindrical Tank. NFA
24:02:21 54638 74488 Bldg 171, both entry doors were locked but opened Exploit
30:19:08 54516 73642 Building 76 NFA
33:16:12 54530 73571 Building 71 NFA
36:11:01 54463 73590 Building 75 Exploit
37:00:00 75/1 Floppy disks some documents Exploit
38:50:00 75/2 Floppy disks some documents Exploit
39:50:00 75/3 Blueprint of building Exploit
41:42:00 75/4 Lead bricks, protecting source? And Filters? D & E
42:15:00 75/5 Empty room.  
45:41:06 75/9 Few documents. Exploit
46:45:19 75/11 Few documents. Exploit
47:41:28 75/12 Few documents.  
48:31:00 75/13    
48:54:00 75/14    
49:15:13 75/16 Upstairs, some documents, box of floppy disks. Exploit

 

Team Beta Tape 10    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:04:06 55201 73986 UGF Building 197, radiation from wall crack. Empty, NFA
02:04:14 55247 73892 Building 198, building empty. Empty, NFA
03:25:26 55118 73792 Building 32 Second Part, 4 trailers side by side Empty, NFA

 

Team Beta Tape 11    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:00:00 54810 74115 Building 13  
01:00:12 13/1 Some documents. Exploit.
01:28:03   Device on desk ? ?
01:40:00   Some documents. SAER device. Exploit.
02:29:12 13/4 Few papers. Exploit.
03:16:07 13/5 Few papers. Personnel File, photo and disk. Exploit.
04:20:00   Steam generator–hot air . Ets LEQUEUX sa  
04:45:04 13/6    
05:25:00 13/7    
05:54:00   Contamination Danger Notice. Drum of Ethanol. Lead bricks. Visit.
06:40:00 13/8    
09:00:28 13/9    
09:56:00   Barrel of Acetone.  
10:46:00 13/10 Stairs down to basement of Building 13.  
12:40:00 13/11 Drawing Board.  
15:00:00   Heat Exchanger, Stainless Steel Tubing.  
16:00:00 13/13 Mono Chloro Di Floro Methane container (Freon).  
17:00:00 O/S 13 X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer. VF-320 Shimadzu  
18:05:00 13/14    
19:42:00 13/16    
20:30:00 13/17    
21:00:00 13/18    
21:33:00 13/19    
22:00:00 13/20 Oven/kiln, notebook.  
23:25:00 13/21    
24:47 Stairs To roof of 13.  
26:00:00   Access to rest of building denied.  
30:06:00 Stairs Pile of lead bricks.  
31:50 Room 7 & 8    
00:05:00 55118 73959 Building 24  
01:45:00 24/1 upstairs Room piled full of equipment spares.  
03:55:00 24/2 Some ledgers and notebooks. Exploit
04:47:00 24/3 Quantity of documents on bookshelf Exploit
05:43:00   OSIRIS Certificate. Exploit
06:00:00 24/4 Documents Exploit
06:30:00 24/5 Documents Exploit
07:08:00   Manufacturing Plant for X-ray Sonar High Speed Centrifuge Exploit
07:23:00 24/6 Documents Exploit
08:25:00 24/7 More documents and laboratory notebooks. Exploit
09:19:00 24/8 Documents Exploit
10:25:00 24/9 Documents Exploit
11:07:00 24/10 Documents Exploit
11:33:00 24/11 Documents Exploit
12:25:0 24/12 Empty  
13:00:00 24/13    
13:44:17 24/14 Quantity of Documents on floor and book case. Exploit
14:17:00 24/14 Closeup of bookcase and ledgers. Exploit
15:18:00 24/15    
16:00:00 24/16    
16:39:00 24/17 No outside door to latter. Few documents  
17:31:00   High Voltage Trigger Type US-4  
17:50:00   Farnell Stabilized Power Supply  
17:59:00 24/18    
19:30:00   Exit building.  

 

Team Charlie Tape 12    
Tape Reference MGRS / Room Number Object Comment
00:00:00 55055 74134 Building 7  
00:34:00   SE entry, documents Exploit
00:40:00 7/1 Documents Exploit
00:45:00 7/2 Burned out  
00:50:00 7/3 Burned out  
00:58:00 7/4 Documents Exploit
01:10:00 7/5 Documents and ledgers in bookshelf. Exploit
01:23:00 7/6 Safe, some papers on the floor. Exploit
01:25:00 7/7 Documents and ledgers in bookshelf, large quantity. Exploit
01:50:00 7/8 Safes and documents on floor.
02:14:00 7/9 Papers on the floor. Exploit
02:18:00 7/10 Some papers on the floor, binders in bookshelf Exploit
02:43:00 7/11 Papers on floor. Exploit
02:46:00 7/12 No documents.  
  7/13 Bathroom.  
02:54:00 7/14 Some papers. En suite facility. Exploit
03:28:18 7/15 Some papers. Exploit
03:40:00 7/16    
03:48:00 7/17 Some papers. Exploit
0404:07 7/18 Papers. Exploit
04:13:00 7/19 Some ledgers under desk. Exploit
04:30:00 7/20 Papers on floor, ledgers in bookshelf. Exploit
04:58:00 7/21 Ledgers and papers on floor. Exploit
05:07:00 7/22 Documents on floor. Exploit
05:15:08 7/23 Large bookshelf full of ledgers. Exploit
05:28:00 7/24 Some ledgers behind desk. Exploit
05:35:00 7/25 Papers on floor. Exploit
05:48:00 7/26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Staircase, bathroom and burned offices, ash from papers. Anything readable?
06:36:00 7/31 Some papers on floor. Exploit
  7/32 & 33 Restrooms.  
06:50:00   View of burned corridor, facing West.  
07:00:00   One room upstairs, building services and views of roof.  
07:22:24 55096 74081 Building 8  
07:53:03 8/8 First room on the left, papers in entrance hall.  
08:23:11 8/6 Papers on floor. Exploit
08:55:28 First room On LHS following Security Barrier, papers. Exploit
09:03:00 Second Papers on floor.  
09:07:00 Third Papers on floor, plus filing cabinet with documents. Exploit
09:17:00 Fourth Papers on floor. Exploit
09:24:07 Fifth Papers on floor Exploit
09:36:00 Sixth Papers on floor. Exploit
09:44:00 Seventh Papers on floor. Exploit
09:50:00 Restrooms    
09:56:00   West end of security area.  
10:16:24   Papers on floor exploit. Exploit
10:20:00   Last room on LHS, papers on floor, en suite facility. Storage nook full of ledgers. Exploit
10:44:00   North side of hall way east end of Building 8. Exploit
11:13:21   Some papers. Exploit
11:20:03   Some papers on floor. Exploit
11:28:11   Some papers on floor. Exploit
11:40:05   Large quantity of documents on floor. Exploit
11:57:00 Next room Quantity of documents on floor. Exploit
12:06:02   Filing cabinet with ledgers and documents on floor. Exploit
12:15:23   Wrecked copier, documents on floor. Exploit
12:36:08 5 First left after security barrier. Few documents. Exploit
12:43:04 4 Papers on floor. Exploit
12:49:00 3 Junk no papers.  
12:58:28 2 Few papers. Exploit
13:10:17 Next on LHS Some papers. Exploit
13:28:21 Last room Documents. Exploit
13:40:00 Stairs up to roof Door to utility area housed in small room on roof.  
14:25:00 55024 74046 Building 181 Door on north side, all doors and windows were fitted with additional security bars.  
15:13:00 1st on LHS Papers on floor. Cubicles, papers in back room. Exploit
16:05:00 2nd Papers on floor. Filing cabinet full of documents. Large quantity of documents in small room. Exploit
17:00:00   Views of safes, broken open and empty.  
17:25:00   Building 11, exterior shot of building and associated shed and transmission tower. NFA
17:40:00   Small building south of Bldg 11, no papers. NFA
17:57:00 54887 74001 Building 11. Occupied by Security Guards. NFA
18:41:25   Room off room , some documents, blocked in. Exploit
18:50:00   Found AK47, called for advice.  
20:00:00 Office / Substation Few documents Exploit
20:35:26 Diagram Substation switching system.  
21:00:00   North side of Building 11.  
21:10:00   Missing East end of Building 11.  
22:00:00 Stairs Leading to small storage room, with racking, no documents.  
22:27:00   Exterior shots of Building 10.  
22:41:11 54918 74045 MGRS of Building 10 and entry wing. Some documents. Exploit
23:00:00   Cryogenic equipment.  
25:44:11   Shot of Unit 25, liquid N2 generator.  
26:10:00   Small office, some documents. Exploit
26:25:00   Danger Toxic sign.  
27:05:00   Shot of some instructions relating to equipment.  
27:31:28   Restrooms and Room with storage of equipment.  
27:40:00   Liquid helium equipment.  
28:06:12   Shot of BOC TurBOCool helium Liquifier.  
28:29:22   Building 24 adjacent to OSIRAC bombed by Israeli’s  
28:53:13 55115 73961 Building 24 MGRS, followed by shots of entrance and foyer.  
  24/1 Odd papers on floor Exploit?
29:49:21   Management notice in Arabic. Translate
    Few binders on desks and floor of rooms viewed. Exploit
30:34:15 24/8 No documents.  
30:50:00 24/9 Few documents.  
31:22:00 1st of east end. Binders on floor. Exploit
31:33:00 2nd Some drawings. Exploit
31:48:00   Drawing of Central Workshop by Bilcon Projects, Ltd., England 0226 71262.  
32:00:00   Drawings of administration building. Exploit
32:25:00 24/25 No papers.  
33:00:00 Un-num rooms Some binders, Arabic notes on drafting table. Exploit
33:25:00   Restrooms, followed by stairs leading down.  
33:55:00   Archive of documents Vast quantity. Exploit
34:15:11   Basement facing east. Numbered pumps, electrical services and HVAC system.  
35:41:00   Subbasement, 40 m long, flooded to 2 feet. Further examination?
36:38:00   Blocked off end of building, bomb damage, not entered.  
37:20:00   Small building to east of 24, serious damage.  
37:31:12 55150 73916 MGRS of little building behind 24. Serious bomb damage. NFA
37:44:00   Elevator shaft into subbasement.  
38:14:09   Spiral staircase leading down.  
38:25:00   Shots of destroyed building.  
39:57:00   Buildings 22 and 23. NFA
40:00:00 55123 73843 MGRS for small Building 23.  
40:35:00   Both parts of Building 22  
41:25:00   Shots of hot cells and remains of manipulators.  
    Shots of bombed out sections of Bldg 22.  
    Building dangerous, no further exploration.  
    Shot of access way between 22 and 23, is this remains of pneumatic rabbit system? NFA
43:00:00 55231 73853 MGRS of between Buildings 22 and 23.  
44:30:00 55192 73874 Large underground basement. NW corner. Grids of all four corners.  
44:40:00 55221 73892 North East Corner. NFA
44:56:04 55242 73854 South East Corner. NFA
45:05:00 55214 73839 South West Corner NFA
45:10:00 55242 73842 SW corner of building with substation station facility NFA
45:24:00   Utility/power control or supply building.  
46:41:06   SE corner of building 34. NFA
49:11:04 Various rooms. East side of building, high indicated count rate, sacks of Portland cement.  
49:58:09   Bottle of Halon 1301  
50:07:0 55094 73719 Building 34, tin shed full of scrap metal, cable, etc.  

 


Posted: Apr 23, 2007 10:16 AM
Last Updated: Apr 23, 2007 10:16 AM
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