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AR RUMAYLAH RG AMMO STORAGE FAC 1

Filename:4023317
SUBJECT:  AR RUMAYLAH RG AMMO STORAGE FAC 1

PATHFINDER RECORD NUMBER: 23317
GENDATE:         950718
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ENVELOPE RATMCIAB YEKDQA 4166 3472302-MIDO--YEKDQX
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ZNY MMIDO ZNZ1
ZKZK RR AAZ DE
HEADER R 132302Z DEC 90 ZYS


[   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ]



/AR RUMAYLAH RG AMMO STORAGE FAC 1/[   (b)(2)   ]//

[   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ]//
STATACT//
RMK/IRAQ: POSSIBLE CW MUNITIONS STORAGE FACILITIES AT AR RUMAYLAH.
/
/
/CHEMICAL WASH-DOWN SITES, CONSISTING OF UNIQUE V-SHAPED TRENCHES,
/WERE [   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ] AT AR RUMAYLAH REPUBLICAN GUARD 
AMMO STORAGE
/FACILITIES 1 AND 2 [   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ] ON 11
/DECEMBER 1990. AR RUMAYLAH IS APPROXIMATELY 28 KM WEST OF AL
/BASRAH AND APPROXIMATELY 45 KM NORTH OF THE KUWAIT BORDER.
/[   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ]

/
/BOTH OF THESE RECTANGULARLY SHAPED STORAGE FACILITIES ARE
/SURROUNDED BY DUAL DEFENSIVE BERMS AND CONTAIN APPROXIMATELY 50
/TRUCK-SIZED OPEN STORAGE REVETMENTS. A CHEMICAL WASH-DOWN SITE IS
/IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE THE GATE OF FACILITY 1 AND INSIDE THE MAIN
/COMPOUND IN THE WEST CORNER OF FACILITY 2. THE WASH-DOWN SITES
/HAD BEEN INSTALLED SINCE 26 NOVEMBER. BY 13 DECEMBER, TWO
/ADDITIONAL WASH-DOWN SITES HAD BEEN COMPLETED, AND LIGHTNING
/ARRESTERS HAD BEEN INSTALLED AT SEVERAL BUNKERS, ALL AT FACILITY
/1. IN PROBABLE RELATED ACTIVITY, CONCERTINA WIRE HAD BEEN
/INSTALLED ALONG THE DEFENSIVE BERMS AT BOTH FACILITIES BY 10
/DECEMBER. A MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER (MRL) BATTALION IS DEPLOYED
/ADJACENT TO EACH FACILITY. 
/
/[   (b)(2)   ] -- THE AR RUMAYLAH STORAGE FACILITIES SUPPORT
/REPUBLICAN GUARD DIVISIONS DEPLOYED ALONG THE KUWAIT BORDER. THE
/PRESENCE OF CHEMICAL WASH-DOWN SITES AND HEAVY SECURITY [   
(b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ] THAT THE AR RUMAYLAH FACILITIES HOUSE 
CHEMICAL MUNITIONS. IN
/ADDITION, IT IS LIKELY THAT CHEMICAL MUNITIONS WOULD BE 
CONTROLLED
/BY THE REPUBLICAN GUARD, ELITE TROOPS LOYAL TO THE REGIME OF
/SADDAM HUSSEIN. THE CHEMICAL MUNITIONS [   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)  
 ] OF THE
/FACILITIES IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE [   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ] 
OF MRL, WHICH WERE
/THE MOST COMMON MEANS OF LAUNCHING CHEMICAL ATTACKS DURING THE 
WAR
/WITH IRAN. 
/
/
[   (b)(2)   ]

/[   (b)(2)   ][   (b)(6)   ]

//

[   (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)   ]

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