According to Duelfer, the new data will influence the accounting of Iraq's Scud missile warheads. According to U.N. Special Commission head Rolf Ekeus, Iraq has also lied about indigenously manufacturing certain missile-associated materials which, in reality, it had imported. Although Ekeus declined to comment on the source of this material, another U.N. official stated that firms from Germany, France, and Ukraine were among the suppliers to Iraq. U.N. officials assert that Iraq does not appear to have assembled any new Scud ballistic missiles, but has stockpiled and concealed materials, possibly to manufacture them in the future. According to U.S. officials and court records, a U.S. businessman from Long Island organized a shipment of ammonium perchlorate from China to Iraq in 1993, but the transfer was intercepted en route.
Ammonium perchlorate is used in the manufacture of rocket fuel.
Senior U.S. officials have also expressed concern over Russia's sale of missile-related items to Iraq , in an apparent bid by Moscow to reinitiate its arms provider relationship with Baghdad. The Jordanian official added that the missile components had been imported by a Palestinian from Gaza, who had since departed from Jordan. The interception indicates that Baghdad is continuing to violate the U.N. embargo on virtually all trade with Iraq. According to diplomatic sources, the shipment originated in Moscow and included 30 boxes. It is uncertain whether the Russian government approved the transfer or if the components were shipped by criminals.