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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      AND ONLY A FEW FUNCTIONAL WEAPON SYSTEMS REMAIN.

 @(W) @ MARKINGS ON CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AMMUNITION. NO INFORMATION

     KBLE CONCERNING MARKINGS USED BY IRAQ TO IDENTIFY CHEMICAL OR

     kL MUNITIONS. CHEMICAL AMMUNITION CAPTURED DURING THE IRAN/IRAQ

 DO NOT HAVE MARKINGS THAT CAN BE IDENTIFIED AS REFERRING TO THE


     FILL. ONE EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE SPANISH-MADE 250 KG WHITE


     US BOMB USED DURING THE WAR TO DELIVER MUSTARD OR NERVE AGENTS. A


    )F SUCH BOMBS, FILLED WITH MUSTARD AGENT, WERE REPORTEDLY FOUND

     3UT UNEXPLODED IN MARCH 1984. THEY WERE PAINTED GREEN WITH A


    3AND NEAR THE NOSE. THE BAND IS ESTIMATED TO BE 2.5 INCHES WIDE.


 BOMB HAD TWO SUSPENSION LUGS AND BORE THE LETTERS "BR-250-WP." ONE OF

BOMB FUSES HAD THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION IN SPANISH: "FOR ARMING TIME

 THAN 6 SECONDS, REMOVE SCREW. RED DIAL READING MEANS DANGER TYPE MU

    83.1." THE BOMBS WERE PURCHASED FROM SPAIN WITHOUT THE WHITE


     iS FILL AND WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FILLED WITH THE CHEMICAL AGENTS.

     IT IS NOT KNOWN IF THE IRAQIS ALTERED IN ANY WAY THE APPEARANCE OF

   BOMBS. THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR OTHER TYPES OF MUNITIONS AS WELL SUCH

    'D-GROUND ROCKETS, MORTAR ROUNDS, ARTILLERY PROJECTILES, AND

      ROCKETS; NONE OF THOSE PURCHASED WERE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR

     AGENTS. THERE IS NO INFORMATION ON MARKINGS OR APPEARANCE OF

   BIOLOGICAL MUNITIONS.


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