IRAQ-KUWAIT SITUATION REPORT

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Subject: IRAQ-KUWAIT SITUATION REPORT

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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SPOT COMMENTARY







JANUARY 1991







IRAQ-KUWAIT:  SITUATION REPORT







MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS







IRAQI SCUD ATTACK AGAINST SAUDI ARABIA







PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE BAGHDAD FIRED TWO OR THREE

MODIFIED-SCUD MISSILES FROM SOUTHERN IRAQ TOWARD DHAHRAN IN

EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA LATE SUNDAY EVENING LOCAL TIME. ONE MISSILE

MAY HAVE IMPACTED NEAR DHAHRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ONE SCUD

MAY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED BY A PATRIOT SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE.







COMMENT:  PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS INDICATES THE MISSILES WERE

LAUNCHED FROM THE VICINITY OF DUWA--ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN AL

AMARAH (FROM WHICH IRAQ TEST-FIRED THREE AL HUSAYN MISSILES ON          

DECEMBER) AND SAFWAN (WHERE BAGHDAD FIRED A PROBABLE AL ABBAS

MISSILE ON          DECEMBER).







DAMAGE TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACILITY







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SAMARRA          PRODUCTION BUILDINGS

MAY HAVE BEEN DAMAGED.







PRESS REPORTING THAT IRAQ

FIRED SEVERAL FROG ROCKETS INTO NORTHEASTERN SAUDI ARABIA LATE ON

SATURDAY. THE ATTACK CAUSED NO CASUALTIES OR DAMAGE.



COMMENT:  BAGHDAD HAS ABOUT 18 FROG LAUNCHERS AND AN UNKNOWN

NUMBER OF ROCKETS IN KUWAIT. THIS 70-KILOMETER-RANGE UNGUIDED

ROCKET POSES A MINIMAL THREAT TO COALITION FORCES IN SAUDI

ARABIA.







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