Other Names: Al-Shuhada' Factory, Hubaniyah Artillery Production Plant
Location: Fallujah, al-Anbar governate, approximately 85km west of Baghdad
Subordinate to: Military Industrialization Commission
Primary Function: Artillery and tank gun production; optical systems for a variety of weapon systems; believed to have produced projectiles for Super Gun

Description:
Saddam General Establishment comprised a complex commissioned in 1985 and included the Al-Shuhada' and Ibn Al Haytham Factories. The facility specialized in artillery, artillery and tanks guns, optical systems, and optics, with most of the work being done under a Yugoslav license. Saddam General was tasked with producing gears for the 1SB12 gyro for the Scud/Al-Hussein reverse-engineering program. The site was heavily bombed during the first Gulf War.

The Al Shuhada' Factory was an enormous machine shop devoted primarily to gun barrel drilling and barrel rifling machines. In the mid-1990s it was tasked with producing a quarter-scale mandrel for the Ababil-100 solid-propellant missile, although the work was not successful. The factory contained numerous large, specialized machine tools. Several Ababil-50 parts were either machined or heat treated at the site; only a small number of technicians worked on this project.

The Ibn Al-Haytham Factory produced the mechanical parts and lenses for the optical devices.

As with other facilities, UN inspectors were primarily concerned with the potential for Saddam General to contribute to the missile program rather than specific, known missile-related activities. In particular, UNSCOM assessed that Saddam General might be able to produce complex parts (e.g., for gyros) and to test guidance equipment using its environmental chambers and vibration table.

Key Sources: UN Inspection Data.

	Updated October 2003