CBW Threat and Saudi Arabian Civil Defense

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CBW Threat and Saudi Arabian Civil Defense 

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Background Paper for J4

SUBJECT: CBW Threat and Saudi Arabian Civil Defense 

1. PURPOSE:  To provide the J-4 background information on the
chemical and biological warfare (CBW) threat to Saudi Arabia and
Saudi civil defense.

2.  POINTS OF MAJOR INTEREST:

   a.  DIA assesses that all Saudi Arabian military-related
logistical facilities (ports, airports, fuel depots, troop
concentration areas) as well as civilian facilities are vulnerable 
to Iraqi use of chemical weapons.  Iraq has the capability to 
deliver chemical agents against virtually any Saudi facility it 
chooses to target.  Chemical agents can be used on aerial bombs, 
with based artillery or rockets against short-range targets, or 
possibly on short-range ballistic missiles against more distant 
targets.  We assess that Iraq has chemical warheads for SCUD 
missiles, but the Iraqi ability to accurately and effectively use 
a SCUD to saturate a target with agent is questionable to poor 
missile accuracy, no known operational testing and limited warhead 
availability.  Iraqi air delivery of chemical weapons would have 
to avoid Saudi and U.S. air defenses.

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

COORDINATION:   [   (b)(2)   ]

PREPARED BY:    [   (b)(2)   ][   (b)(6)   ]