From WikiLeaks

Wikileaks exclusive investigative report by

JULIAN ASSANGE (ja@iq.org) & staff

November 8, 2007

This spectacular 2,000 page US military leak consists of the names, group structure and theatre equipment registers of all units in Iraq with US army equipment . It exposes secretive document exploitation centers, detainee operations, elements of the State Department, Air Force, Navy and Marines units, the Iraqi police and coalition forces from Poland, Denmark, Ukraine, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan and El Salvador. The material represents nearly the entire order of battle for US forces in Iraq and is the first public revelation of many of the military units described. Among other matters it shows that the United States may have violated the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention.

Funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently a critical issue in the US. A majority of Democratic party candidates was elected to both houses of the US Congress in 2006 on an anti-war platform. Under the US Constitution, Congress has the 'power of the purse' to cut off funding for war, but Democrats have not yet sought to use this power. In late April, Congress passed a bill, HR 1591, which did not cut off funding, but instead authorized war funding through 2008 and into 2009. However, the bill was vetoed by President Bush on 1 May (2007) because it contained a non-binding timetable for withdrawal of US forces. With pressure building in Washington, further cracks are appearing within the US government itself. Some within the government believe enough is enough. They have leaked several confidential military documents to Wikileaks.

Leak Series/US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007) (various formats, the .xls spread sheet is the most useful) US military units in Iraq (Wikileaks enhanced, easy to read edition) Verification status Verified

C hemical weapons

“ The use of chemical weapons by US forces was explicitly banned by President Gerald Ford in 1975 after CS gas had been repeatedly used in Vietnam to smoke out enemy soldiers and then kill them as they ran away. Britain would be in a particularly sensitive position if the US used the weapons as it drafted the convention and is still seen internationally as its most important guardian. The [UK] Foreign Office [Minister of State, Mike O'Brien] said: "All state parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention have undertaken not to use any toxic chemical or its precursor, including riot-control agents. This applies in any armed conflict." [1] „ — US Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq, The Independent (London), March 2, 2003

The M33A1 bulk CS chemical dispenser, 21 of which appear together with their M254 high pressure loading kits in the leaked U.S weapons list for Iraq

Friday November 9, 2007

Wikileaks exclusive investigative report.

The United States has been caught with at least 2,386 "non-lethal" chemical weapons deployed in Iraq. The items appear in a spectacular 2,000 page leak of nearly one million items of US military equipment deployed in Iraq given to the government transparency group Wikileaks. The items are labelled under the military's own NATO supply classification Chemical weapons and equipment.

In the weeks prior to the March 19, 2003 commencement of the Iraq war, the United States received a widely reported rebuke from its primary coalition partner, the United Kingdom, over statements by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the US military might use CS gas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Subsequently Washington has been quiet about whether it has deployed CS gas and other chemical weapons or not, except to deny, then admit, to using white phosphorus during the gruesome 2004 assault on Fallujah as "a smoke screen" and "an incendiary" — uses not technically covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention. [2]

The use of chemical weapons such as CS gas for military operations is illegal. The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997, drafted by the United Kingdom and ratified by the United States, declares “Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare”. It only grants permissible use to "law enforcement including domestic riot control."

Riot control agents, according to former Clinton Administration National Security Council analyst Elisa D. Harris, speaking to the New York Times, are cited explicitly because they have a history of escalating misuse leading into uncontrolled chemical warfare. They given special treatment under the convention in a number of ways. They are uniquely and explicitly:

defined (Art. II.7), prohibited for use as a method of warfare (Art. I.5), required to be declared (Art. III.1(e)), cited in Art. X.8(b) on investigation and assistance if used against a State Party, and permitted for a purpose not prohibited by the Convention, namely, “law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes” (Art. II.9(d))

[3]

Most items on the Chemical weapons and equipment list were registered via the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, 5183 Blackhawk Rd, Gunpowder, Maryland. [4]

There is the M33A1, as pictured above, a high pressure backpack CS/CR gas or liquid dispenser and the M254, its high pressure loading kit. On April 11, 2003 the US military TACOM contracting office put out a tender solicitation for 75 to 225 units. [5]

The most numerous item on the chemical weapons equipment list is a vehicle mounted gas canister launcher, the "DISCHARGER GRSCL XM7", used to launch 66mm smoke and CS gas grenades....

See US violates chemical weapons convention for the full article and list.

A rms & equipment lists of notable military units

There are 1,347 military units described by the material. Some notable units are:

See US military units in Iraq for the complete list.

I mprovised explosive devices (IEDs) hit hard

Half of all equipment purchases have been diverted to dealing with home made mobile phone and radio bombs. Not since the post war nuclear build up has there been such a decisive shift in US military spending priorities.

The 2007 May-July period, saw 203 US military deaths from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan, accounting for 66 percent of all US combat fatalities.[6]

Those numbers have climbed steadily from the same three-month period in 2004, when 54 Americans were killed by IEDs, 31 percent of total fatalities.

Since the first recorded IED death in July 2003, at least 1,509 Americans have been killed in Iraq by makeshift roadside bombs, out of a total 3,707 fatalities.

The daily number of IED attacks has increased six-fold since 2003, according to the Pentagon.

In response, vast expenditures are being made on advanced technology to prevent, jam, detect, and destroy such devices.

The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, or JIEDDO was predicted last year to have spent US$13,000,000,000 (13 billion) across all theaters, on detectors and robots to defuse bombs, improvements to vehicle armour, training and other means to counter home made weapons.

That sum is comparable, in inflation-adjusted dollars, to what the US spent building the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, based on figures compiled by Washington's Brookings Institution.[7]

The leak reveals 12,097 “Warlock” radio frequency jammers (US$1,100 million for the first 7,530), which prevent radio signals, such as from mobile phones, from triggering explosives.[8]

If we view IEDs as a rebel investment, to which the US must pay dividends in defensive equipment costs, then every insurgent dollar spent has a return on investment of somewhere around thousand fold. Significant price gouging by counter-IED defense contractors is evident. For comparison, each briefcase-sized "Warlock" IED jammer, of which is there is on average more than one per vehicle, is worth $150,000; however, as can be seen by this analysis, that is more costly than nearly every vehicle it was designed to protect. The "Warlock" producer, defense contractor EDO Corp, predicts financial year 2007 will see a 400% total revenue increase over its 2003 levels.[9]





M ilitary robots





TALON robot and corpse in Iraq. Over 400 ground robots appear in the leaked database

The leak reveals over 400 US military robots operating in Iraq. The majority are used for IED (improvised explosive devices) work and reconnaissance. However some robot designs have a lethal capability.



See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Robots for the complete list.

D rone (robot) aircraft

144 drone aircraft, corresponding to NATO Supply Classification 1550 - Drones

See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Drone aircraft for the complete list.

P rotective Armor and Equipment

Another interesting feature is the vast amount of protective armor and equipment supplied. There are 446,476 items of body armor. [10] Using prices from the publicly accessible NSN database, these inserts together come to a total over well over $233 million.[11]

B ulk cash counters

From the invasion of Iraq in April 2003 until June 2004, the US Army shipped nearly US$12,000,000,000 in cash, weighing 363 tonnes, to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Of this over $9,000,000,000 went missing. [12] The funds were drawn from the Iraq Development Fund, which had been formed from US seized Iraqi assets. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the legal handover of the fund to the new Iraqi government. [13] The cash payment system has continued as there is no functional Iraqi banking network. With so much cash flowing into the country it comes as no surprise to find that the US Army has deployed 39 automatic cash counting machines.



See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Money counters for the complete list.

O ver a thousand safes for secrets and cash

“ [S]ome American contractors correctly believed they could walk off with as much money as they could carry. The circumstances that surround the handling of comparatively small sums help explain the billions that ultimately vanished. In the south-central region of Iraq a contracting officer stored $2 million in a safe in his bathroom. One agent kept $678,000 in an unsecured footlocker. „ — Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Billions over Baghdad

Safes have played an important role for US Army in Iraq: not only for securing important documents and official funds, but also as a way to hide away largess obtained corruptly from the US federal reserve, via authorities which did not care to introduce even minimal oversight or accounting mechanisms. The October 2007 edition of Vanity Fair reports on US$12,000,000,000 in cash brought into Iraq under the auspices Coalition Provisional Authority, of which $9,000,000,000 cannot be accounted for.

Below are listed the types and unit assignments of 1,056 US military safes in Iraq.





See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Safes for the complete list.

C ryptographic and communications security equipment

A huge list of US Military secret communications systems corresponding to NATO Supply Classifications 5810 - Communications Security Equipment and Components (12,081 items) and 5811 - Other Cryptologic Equipment and Components (2,165 items).



See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Comsec for the complete list.

C hemical and biological portables

[14] A slide used by Colin Powell in his famous Feb 5 2003 pre-war address to the United Nations. Powell claimed (falsely) that Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) using mobile biological weapons laboratories.



During the lead up to the 2003 Iraq war, the United States famously accused Iraq of possessing portable mobile chemical and biological laboratories. Post invasion no such facilities were found. Ironically Iraq now has at least five portable mobile chemical and biological stations — held by the United States Army. The portables are valued at US$622,051 a piece and used for defensive purposes. [15]





M inimum equipment costs per unit

Item prices were were located for approximately 1/5 registered items, so the following list is a minimum guide only.

Over six thousand million dollars (US) is represented in total, however for the reasons just stated this is a substantial underestimate of the total equipment outlay.



See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Min cost per unit for the full list.

T ally by NATO Supply Group

Within the US usually referred to as the Federal Supply Group, the NATO Supply Group is a broad classification (100 groups) of NATO arms and equipment.

In total there are 953,582 items listed in the leaked document.

Quantity Group description 534336 Clothing, Individual Equipment, and Insignia 143285 Communication, Detection, and Coherent Radiation Equipment 75353 Automatic Data Processing Equipment (Including Firmware), Software, Supplies and Support Equipment ... ...

See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Tally by NATO Supply Group for the complete list.

T ally by NATO Supply Classification

Within the US usually referred to as the Federal Supply Class, the NATO Supply Classification groups NATO arms and equipment into upto 1,000 different classes.

In total there are 953,582 items represented by the leak.

Quantity Classification description 446476 Armor, Personal 85592 Clothing, Special Purpose 51963 Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne ... ...

See US Military Equipment in Iraq (2007)/Tally by NATO Supply Classification for the complete list.

T ally by NATO Stock Number with price

Within the US, usually referred to as the National Stock Number.

Items Each ($) Total ($) NSN Item Name Item Class 7530 150000 1129500000 5865015337406 COUNTERMEASURES SET-(WARLOCK DUK Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-Countermeasures and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment 586 809500 474367000 2320014376957 ARMORED SECURITY VEHICLE (ASV) M Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled 129 2393439 308753631 2350010871095 TANK CMBT 120MM M1A1 Combat, Assault, and Tactical Vehicles, Tracked 2014 146844 295743816 2320014133739 TRK UTIL HMMWV M1114 Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled 118 1311639 154773402 2350014059886 FIGHTG VEH M2A2 W/ODS Combat, Assault, and Tactical Vehicles, Tracked 449 311532 139877868 2320015231049 TRUCK W/O MHE M1075P1 Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled 313 405815 127020095 2350012197577 CARRIER PERS M113A3 Combat, Assault, and Tactical Vehicles, Tracked 327 326866 106885182 2320015231070 TR WR W/W M984A1P1 Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled 1832 54313.7 99502698.4 2320015231314 TR 1 1/4T 4X4 M998P1 Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled 267 337610 90141870 2320015231054 TR TRACT HETS M1070P1 Trucks and Truck Tractors, Wheeled ... ... ... ... ... ...

This intriguing list is too large to place here, but is probably the most readable representation of the items themselves (without reference to the military units holding them). See Iraq_OIF_Property_List_Summary_by_NSN_Price.html File | Torrent | Magnet for the full tally.

T ally by NATO Stock Number

Within the US, usually referred to as the National Stock Number

Quantity NATO Stock# Item Name NATO Supply Class Description 145903 8470015367227 INSERT,SMALL ARMS P Armor, Personal 71700 8470015370504 CARRIER ASSEMBLY,UN Armor, Personal 57619 8470015207373 INSERTS,ENHANCED SM Armor, Personal 50230 8470015207385 INSERTS,ENHANCED SM Armor, Personal 36358 8470015269163 DLTD AND AXLR UNV CAM Armor, Personal 35942 8470015207209 DELTOID AND AXILLAR Armor, Personal 19084 8470015207382 INSERTS,ENHANCED SM Armor, Personal 16759 582001C019354 RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS: IC Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne 12062 8470015207370 INSERTS,ENHANCED SM Armor, Personal 9070 5825013953513 NAVIGATION SET: SAT Radio Navigation Equipment, Except Airborne 7530 5865015337406 COUNTERMEASURES SET-(WARLOCK DUK Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-Countermeasures and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment ... ... ... ...

This intriguing list is too large to place here, see Iraq_OIF_Property_List_Summary_by_NSN.html File | Torrent | Magnet for the complete list.

A nalyzing the Contents of the Leaked Document

The document lists US Army managed equipment in Iraq held by Army, Marines, Air Force and coalition forces, the Iraqi government, and at least one military contractor as of April 2007. It does not cover expendables such as munitions, printer cartridges or fuel.

The list itself does not include pricing information, however we were able to obtain pricing information for around 1/5 of the items by cross referencing with information obtained from public US logistics military hardware catalog databases. This process reveals that there is at least $6,601,015,731 worth of US Army managed military equipment in Iraq (nb. this is a minimum, the real value is likely to be five to fifteen times higher)[16]

The list contains codes for military units, item codes, as well as other logistics data. The most useful of these for investigatory purposes is the NSN, or NATO Stock Number. Several internet sites allow public searches of the NSN catalog, such as https://www.webflis.dlis.dla.mil/WEBFLIS/ASPscripts/pub_search.aspx[17], which identifies many items on the list and includes prices. The columns in the spreadsheet are as follows:

UIC, or Unit Identification Code, which is a six-character, alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies each Active, Reserve, and National Guard unit of the United States Armed Forces.

Unit Name. [18]

LIN, or (supply) Line Item Number; [19]

NSN, NATO Stock Number; [20]

Item Name;

PBIC, or Property Book Identification Code, which categorizes the type of property listed into 10 basic divisions;

Type, which is listed as either TPE, Theater Provided Equipment, LTT, Long Term Training, or APS, Army Prepositioned Stock; [21]

DND, or Do Not Deploy, which is a Yes/No Column;

OH Qty, or On Hand Quantity, the number of items.

We cannot analyze the document fully: it is a long list. We encourage informed users and citizens, especially those with military or intelligence experience, to examine it for themselves and submit their findings.

See Iraq_OIF_Property_List.csv for the unabridged leaked document (around 2,000 pages) or Iraq_OIF_Property_List for a navigatible version, broken down by military unit.

F urther research tasks and questions

Make further comments on the units in the list and their significance. Cross link with other news sources. Make further comments on items in the list and their significance. Improve links and information for US war funding legislation and bills. Include more details on what the various codes in the spreadsheet mean. Is there a public searchable database for Unit abbreviations or UICs? There are specific issues with NSN codes. NSN codes are a 13-digit code. Of those 13 digits, 12 are decimal. But one of those digits, the seventh, is alphanumeric. The publicly searchable NSN database seems to be able to locate items if they have a number in the seventh place, but not if there is a letter in the seventh place. What is the reason for this? What does a letter as opposed to a number signify? Is there a fuller public database for NSN codes than the one given? Are these alphanumeric NSNs, Management Control Numbers as speculated?

See Talk:US Military Logistics for further discussion

T ools for Analysis

US Military Logistics - overview and detail of US Logistics codes

US Military Abbreviations - useful list of abbreviations for understanding unit and equipment descriptions

http://www.globalsecurity.org – a leading source for security information

NATO Stock Number - full detail and links to on-line logistics records. Also referred to as the National Stock Number .

. Unit Identification Code - description of UICs.





A bout the Analysis

The analysis proceeded as follows:

A full dump of the SQL database is available for your enjoyment here: us_military_equipment_in_iraq_and_afghanistan.sql.gz File | Torrent | Magnet . The table names are fairly self-explanatory and the columns are as mentioned here, with the exception of "fsg" = Federal Supply Group and "fgsc" = Federal Supply Class.

See the Appendix for more information.

F ull SQL database

The full analysis database for the Iraq and Afghanistan equipment lists is available here: us_military_equipment_in_iraq_and_afghanistan.sql.gz File | Torrent | Magnet (2.2Mb compressed)

The high level SQL description is as follows:

CREATE TABLE afg (uic,unitname,lin,nsn,itemname,pbic,type,dnd,oh,fsg,fgsc);

CREATE TABLE fgsc (fsg, fsc, a, includes,excludes,note,desc,num,extra, fgsc);

CREATE TABLE `fsg` (fsg,a,note,desc,num,extra);

CREATE TABLE iraq (uic,unitname,lin,nsn,itemname,pbic,type,dnd,oh,fsg,fgsc);

CREATE TABLE nsnprice (nsn,desc,price money);

CREATE TABLE afg_nsntotals (nsn, count integer);

CREATE VIEW sums as select sum(oh),fgsc foo from afg group by fgsc;

CREATE VIEW iraq_readable as select unitname,lin,nsn,pbic,type,dnd,oh,itemname,fgsc.desc from iraq left outer join fgsc on iraq.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc order by unitname;

CREATE VIEW iraq_nsntotals as select sum(oh),nsn,itemname,fgsc.desc from iraq left outer join fgsc on iraq.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc group by nsn order by 1 desc;

CREATE VIEW iraq_fgsctotals as select sum(oh),fgsc.desc from iraq left outer join fgsc on iraq.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc group by fgsc.fgsc order by 1 desc;

CREATE VIEW iraq_fsgtotals as select sum(oh), fsg.fsg, fsg.desc from iraq left outer join fsg on iraq.fsg = fsg.fsg group by fsg.fsg order by 1 desc;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX nsnprice_nsn_index on nsnprice (nsn);

CREATE VIEW afg_nsntotals2 as select sum(oh),price,sum(oh)*price,afg.nsn,itemname,fgsc.desc from afg left outer join fgsc on afg.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc left outer join nsnprice on afg.nsn = nsnprice.nsn group by afg.nsn order by sum(oh)*price desc,afg.fgsc;

CREATE VIEW iraq_nsntotals2 as select sum(oh),price,sum(oh)*price,iraq.nsn,itemname,fgsc.desc from iraq left outer join fgsc on iraq.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc left outer join nsnprice on iraq.nsn = nsnprice.nsn group by iraq.nsn order by sum(oh)*price desc,iraq.fgsc;

CREATE VIEW iraq_pricetotal as select sum(`sum(oh)*price`) from iraq_nsntotals2;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX fgsc_fgsc_index on fgsc (fgsc);

CREATE INDEX iraq_fgsc_index on iraq (fgsc);

CREATE INDEX iraq_nsn_index on iraq (nsn);

CREATE VIEW iraq_unit_price_totals_millions as select sum(oh*price)/1000000,unitname from iraq left outer join nsnprice on iraq.nsn=nsnprice.nsn group by uic order by sum(oh*price) desc;

CREATE VIEW afg_fgsctotals as select sum(oh),fgsc.desc from afg left outer join fgsc on afg.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc group by fgsc.fgsc order by 1 desc;

CREATE VIEW afg_readable as select unitname,lin,nsn,pbic,type,dnd,oh,itemname,fgsc.desc from afg left outer join fgsc on afg.fgsc = fgsc.fgsc order by unitname;

CREATE VIEW afg_unit_price_totals_millions as select sum(oh*price)/1000000,unitname from afg left outer join nsnprice on afg.nsn=nsnprice.nsn group by uic order by sum(oh*price) desc;

CREATE VIEW afg_pricetotal as select sum(`sum(oh)*price`) from afg_nsntotals2;

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