MESSAGE IRAQI SPECIAL OPERATIONS TROOPS AND USE OF CBW

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Subject: MESSAGE IRAQI SPECIAL OPERATIONS TROOPS AND USE OF CBW          

Box  ID: BX000217

Document Number:         35

Folder Title: IRAQI MISC OB DATA VOLUME II                                                                    

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Unit: VII CORPS   

Parent Organzation: ARCENT      



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      TRAINING FOR USE OF CBW BY IRAQI SPECIAL FORCES. NO INFORMATION

    @ABLE CONCERNING TRAINING BY IRAQI SF FOR USE OF BIOLOGICAL OR

      AGENTS. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT CHEMICAL AGENTS HAVE BEEN

      BY MEANS OTHER THAN AIRCRAFT, ARTILLERY, OR MORTAR.

    @rno7@AL AGENTS SUCH AS CHOLERA COULD BE INSERTED INTO SAUDI WATER


      BY SF PERSONNEL WHO HAD PENETRATED WATER TREATMENT STATIONS.

      IRAQ WOULD PROBABLY NOT WANT TO CONTAMINATE A WATER SUPPLY THAT IT

   -TEED LATER TO SUSTAIN COMBAT OPERATIONS.

      COVERT WEAPONS SYSTEMS FOR CBW. NO INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE

    ING IRAQI WEAPONS SYSTEMS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE COVERT USE

     "AL OR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. HOWEVER, IRAQ CONCEIVABLY COULD ATTEMPT

    .QATING CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AGAINST MILITARY OR CIVILIAN

    LONS WITHOUT DETECTION OR SUSPICION. FOR EXAMPLE, RECONNAISSANCE

      MIGHT BE USED AT NIGHT TO RELEASE AEROSOLIZED CHEMICAL OR

    DAL AGENTS UPWIND FROM A TARGET AREA. THIS IS A POSSIBILITY GIVEN

  THE PREVAILING WIND DIRECTION IN SAUDI ARABIA DURING AUGUST IS TO THE





















 (U) PRIORITY OF TARGETING FOR CBW.

      STRATEGIC TARGETS FOR CHEMICAL ATTACKS BY IRAQ ARE ASSESSED TO




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