MESSAGE IRAQI SPECIAL OPERATIONS TROOPS AND USE OF CBW

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Subject: MESSAGE IRAQI SPECIAL OPERATIONS TROOPS AND USE OF CBW          

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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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    PHAT IMMEDIATELY THREATEN TO INVADE IRAQI TERRITORY

         THOSE GROUND FORCES THAT WOULD CAUSE LOSS OF INITIATIVE OR


   OF ADVANCING IRAQI TROOPS
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@i#P) THE ADVANTAGES OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OVER CHEMICAL INCLUDE A

     rTV GREATER INCREASE IN LETHAL AREA CONTAMINATION, MORE PRACTICAL

  MEANS OF SABOTAGE, AND PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN USED

     AND UNDETECTED. HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF A LONGER TIME-TO-EFFECT OR

     DN PERIOD, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS WOULD HAVE TO BE PREPLANNED AND USED

     RHAN CHEMICAL AGENTS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE FOR BACTERIA


     @AUSING AGENTS AND LESS SO FOR BIOCHEMICAL TOXINS. BIOLOGICAL

     3Y IRAQ ARE ASSESSED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PRIORITY IF
   (U) IITH DISTRUCTION BUT HAVE NOT YET BEEN ATTACKED:
         MILITARY TARGETS OUTSIDE OF SAUDI ARABIA THAT COULD THREATEN


      @MORY WOULD PROBABLY HAVE THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR A BIOLOGICAL


     AIRBASES IN OMAN OR THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT

   NOT BE EASILY REACHED WITH CHEMICAL OR CONVENTIONAL DELIVERY SYSTEMS


   BE CONTAMINATED COVERTLY WITH BIOLOGICAL AGENTS BY SABOTEURS.
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      SUPPLY DEPOTS, PORT FACILTIES, AND SHIPS COULD BE CONTAMINATED BY

    'ABOTEUR OR AIRCRAFT DISSEMINATION.
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      MAJOR CITIES CONTAMINATED BY EITHER SABOTEUR OR AIRCRAFT


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 (85'!iLO) THE PRIORITY FOR IRAQI RETALIATORY BIOLOGICAL ATTACKS AFTER ITS

     L HAS BEEN ATTACKED COULD-BE DIFFERENT. IN SUCH A CIRCUMSTANCE,

TARGET PRIORITY CRITERIA COULD BE DETERMINED SIMPLY BY THE


    'ILITY OF THE TARGET. THUS, THE PRIORITY OF TARGETS (1) AND (3)

   COULD BE SWITCHED, ASSUMING THAT THE DEGREE OF DESTRUCTION

         3Y IRAQ WAS GREAT, BOTH CIVILIAN AND MILITARY TARGETS WERE


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