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SERIAL:    (U)  IIR 6 021 0196 96.





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COUNTRY:       IRAQ (IZ).



SUBJECT:   IIR 6 021 0196 96/IRAQI FALLUJAH, KHAMISIYAH,

AND AN-NASIRIYAH CHEMICAL WARFARE RELATED SITES  





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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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DOI:       (U)  960520



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SUMMARY:                                     FROM 960511 TO 960520,

UNSCOM ONGOING MONITORING AND VERIFICATION SUPPORT TEAM

INSPECTED THE IRAQI CHEMICAL WARFARE RELATED FACILITIES,

FALLUJAH THREE, AND THE KHAMISIYAH (TALL AL-LAHM) AND AN-

NASIRIYAH MUNITIONS STORAGE AREAS.



TEXT:  1.                                FROM 960511 TO 960520,

UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMISSION (UNSCOM) ONGOING

MONITORING AND VERIFICATION SUPPORT TEAM-NINE B (OST-9B)

INSPECTED THE FOLLOWING IRAQI CHEMICAL WARFARE (CW)

RELATED FACILITIES--FALLUJAH THREE CASTOR OIL EXTRACTION

FACILITY//GEOCOORD:  333288N0433694E//, THE KHAMISIYAH

(TALL AL-LAHM) AMMUNITION STORAGE AREA//GEOCOORD:

3047N04626E//, AND THE AN-NASIRIYAH STORAGE

DEPOT//GEOCOORD:  3057N04306E//.



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3.                                              KHAMISIYAH (TALL AL-LAHM)

AMMUNITION STORAGE AREA.  OST-9B INSPECTED THE AREA INSIDE

AND AROUND BUNKER 73.  THIS STRUCTURE WAS TOTALLY

DESTROYED, BUT THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF A LARGE NUMBER OF

SAKR-18, 122MM CHEMICAL ROCKETS BOTH IN THE PREVIOUS

FOOTPRINT OF THE STRUCTURE, AS WELL AS THE SURROUNDING

AREA.  THE INSPECTION TEAM TOOK A NUMBER OF STILL AND

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AREA AND THE ROCKETS,

CONCENTRATING ON FEATURES WHICH ARE SPECIFIC TO CW FILLED

ROCKETS (I.E. CENTRAL BURSTER, PLASTIC CANISTERS, ETC.).  (b.1. sec. 1.5. c.)

  DISCUSSIONBETWEEN THE INSPECTION TEAM AND THE IRAQI REPRESENTATIVES

REVEALED THE FOLLOWING--

3A.                                     IRAQ MOVED 2,160 SAKR-18 GB/GF

FILLED ROCKETS (TWO CANISTERS-GA/GF) BETWEEN 910110 TO

910115 FROM AL-MUTHANNA STATE ESTABLISHMENT//GEOCOORD:

335031N0435051E// TO BUNKER 73.  (FIELD COMMENT--GA IS

TABUN, GB IS SARIN, AND GF IS CYCLOHEXYL SARIN.)

3B.                                   ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, THE ROCKETS

BEGAN TO LEAK AND THE IRAQIS BEGAN TO MANUALLY MOVE THE

ROCKETS (FOUR MEN PER ROCKET) TO A SITE, IN THE OPEN, NEAR

THE CANAL, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY FOUR KILOMETERS FROM

BUNKER 73.  BY THE TIME OF THE IRAQI RETREAT IN LATE

910200 AND EARLY 910300, APPROXIMATELY 1,100 ROCKETS HAD

BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SITE.  BOTH BUNKER 73 AND THE

ROCKETS THAT WERE STORED IN THE OPEN WERE INTACT AT THE

TIME OF THE IRAQI RETREAT.

3C.                                   UPON RETURNING TO THE SITE,

AFTER OCCUPATION FORCES HAD WITHDRAWN, THE IRAQIS

DISCOVERED THAT BUNKER 73 HAD BEEN DESTROYED.  THE IRAQI

REPRESENTATIVE STATED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF WIRE AND

OTHER EVIDENCE OF GROUND DESTRUCTION PRESENT.

ADDITIONALLY, THERE WAS THE SAME TYPE OF EVIDENCE TO

SUPPORT THE FACT THAT SOME OF THE ROCKETS LOCATED IN THE

OPEN AREA HAD BEEN DESTROYED BY THE OCCUPYING FORCES.

3D.                                   FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED

UNSCOM 29'S DESTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 700 OF THE

REMAINING ROCKETS LOCATED IN THE OPEN AREA, AS WELL AS THE

IRAQI BACKFILL OF THE BUNKER 73 AREA WITH SOIL.(FIELD

COMMENT--UNSCOM 29/CD1 CONDUCTED ITS CW DESTRUCTION

MISSION FROM 920228 TO 920324.)

3E.                               IN ADDITION TO THE BUNKER 73

AREA, THE INSPECTION TEAM ALSO EXAMINED THE `CANAL BANK'

AREA, USED BY THE IRAQIS FOR OPEN STORAGE, AND FOUND

EVIDENCE OF SAKR-18'S//GEOCOORD:  304454.1N0462587.1E//.

THE INSPECTION TEAM EXAMINED THE REMAINS OF THE TWO MOST

SOUTHERN BUNKERS OF EACH OF THE SOUTHERNMOST ROWS (NEAREST

THE NEW CANAL, INCLUDING BUNKER 73) FOR THE PRESENCE OF CW

OR SUSPECT CW MUNITIONS.  THIS WAS DONE TO VERIFY THE

IRAQI CLAIM THAT NO OTHER CW MUNITIONS WERE PRESENT AT

KHAMISIYAH.  THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF FURTHER CW

MUNITIONS.  THERE WAS, HOWEVER, SOME EVIDENCE OF SOME

INTERESTING `BASE EJECT', 155MM PROJECTILES WHICH WERE

EMPTY.

3F.                                    IN SUMMARY, BASED ON PHYSICAL

EXAMINATION, AS WELL AS DISCUSSION WITH IRAQI

REPRESENTATIVES, IT APPEARED THAT THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY

2,160 GB/GF FILLED 122MM SAKR-18 CW ROCKETS AT KHAMISIYAH

AT THE TIME OF THE GULF WAR.  FURTHER, THERE IS NO REASON

TO DISBELIEVE THE IRAQIS WITH RESPECT TO CIRCUMSTANCES

SURROUNDING THE DESTRUCTION OF THESE ROCKETS.







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4.                                AN-NASIRIYAH STORAGE DEPOT.  THE

PURPOSE OF THE INSPECTION OF AN-NASIRIYAH WAS TO DOCUMENT

EVENTS SURROUNDING THE RECEIPT, STORAGE, AND REMOVAL OF

APPROXIMATELY 6,000 155MM IRAQI HD MUNITIONS MOVED TO AN-

NASIRIYAH IN THE MID 910100 TIME-FRAME.   (b.1. sec. 1.5.c.)



THE INSPECTION TEAM OBSERVED THAT 12 TO 14 BUNKERS WERE IN

USE AT THIS SITE, 22 HAD BEEN DESTROYED BY COALITION

BOMBING, AND OVER 20 HAD BEEN DESTROYED BY OCCUPATION

FORCES.

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4B.                               THE INSPECTION TEAM'S DISCUSSION

WITH THE IRAQI REPRESENTATIVES CENTERED AROUND THE

DELIVERY, STORAGE, AND MOVEMENT OF HD MUNITIONS FROM AL-

MUTHANNA TO THIS SITE IN 910100, SPECIFICALLY THE

FOLLOWING--

-QAPPROXIMATELY 6,000 MUNITIONS WERE MOVED FROM AL-

MUTHANNA TO AN-NASIRIYAH BETWEEN 910110 AND 910115.

-QTHE MUNITIONS WERE PLACED IN IRAQI BUNKER NUMBER

EIGHT//GEOCOORD:  305815.9N0461015.3E//.

-QALSO IN BUNKER EIGHT THERE WERE A RELATIVELY SMALL

NUMBER OF 120MM HE MORTAR ROUNDS AND 7.9MM BALL SMALL ARMS

AMMUNITION.

-QTHE MUNITIONS WERE REMOVED FROM BUNKER EIGHT AND AN-

NASIRIYAH OVER A ONE-WEEK PERIOD AROUND 910215 AND PLACED

IN THE OPEN AREA NEAR KHAMISIYAH (TAL AL-LAHM)//GEOCOORD:

304605.3N0462276.1E//.  THE INSPECTION TEAM EXAMINED THIS

SITE AND DISCOVERED NO EVIDENCE OF REMAINING MUNITIONS OF

ANY TYPE.  THERE IS, HOWEVER, A RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED CANAL

ADJACENT TO THE DUMP SITE.

4C.                                               THE INSPECTION TEAM EXAMINED

ADDITIONAL BUNKERS IN ORDER TO CLARIFY QUESTIONS

ASSOCIATED WITH THE AN-NASIRIYAH SITE, SPECIFICALLY THE

FOLLOWING--

-QIRAQI BUNKER NUMBERS 15//GEOCOORD:

305773.0N0461015.5E// AND 19 (UNSCOM NUMBERS 99 AND 98

RESPECTIVELY).  THE INSPECTION TEAM DID NOT OBTAIN

GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES FOR BUNKER 19, DUE TO SAFETY

CONSIDERATIONS.  THESE TWO BUNKERS WERE TYPICAL IN THEIR

CONSTRUCTION AND CONTENT, SUCH AS MIXED PROJECTILES,

MORTAR ROUNDS, SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION, AND PROPELLANT.

HOWEVER, THESE TWO STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED AT 0100

HOURS, 910117, BY COALITION BOMBING.  IN ALL APPROXIMATELY

22 STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED BY AERIAL BOMBING.  BUNKER

EIGHT WAS DESTROYED BY OCCUPATION FORCES, AS EVIDENCED BY

U.S. DETONATORS, ETC., LEFT IN PLACE.  THERE WAS NO

EVIDENCE OF OTHER THAN CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS AT THESE

SITES.

4D.                                IRAQI BUNKERS 59//GEOCOORD:

305787.7N0460917.0E//, 60//GEOCOORD:

305780.2N0460923.0E//, AND 61//GEOCOORD:

305771.0N0460922.0E// (UNSCOM NUMBERS 101 TO 103).  THESE

BUNKERS WERE ALL DESTROYED BY COALITION AERIAL BOMBING.

THEY WERE BUILT AND USED FOR STORAGE OF SENSITIVE

EXPLOSIVES, I.E. DETONATION CHARGES, DETONATORS, TNT, ETC.

AS SUCH, THEY WERE EQUIPPED WITH `CHILLERS', WHICH

PROVIDED COOLED AIR TO THE INTERIOR OF THE BUNKERS' FOUR

SEPARATE STORAGE ROOMS.  THE INSPECTION TEAM EXAMINED ALL

OF THESE BUNKERS AND DISCOVERED NO EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING

OTHER THAN THOSE TYPES OF EXPLOSIVES PREVIOUSLY INDICATED

AS BEING STORED THERE.

4E.                                    IRAQI BUNKER 20//GEOCOORD:

305747.7N0461047.8E// (UNSCOM NUMBER 71).  THIS BUNKER WAS

TYPICAL OF THE TYPE REMAINING IN USE.  THE DOORS TO THE

STRUCTURE WERE LOCKED, HOWEVER, THE IRAQIS READILY AGREED

TO ALLOW ACCESS.  THE CONTENTS OF THE BUNKER WERE AS

FOLLOWS--

-Q120MM MORTAR ROUNDS

-Q130MM PROJECTILES

-Q155MM HE (U.S. 820000)

-QFUSES

-QPROPELLANT

-QSMALL ARMS AMMUNITION

THE PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUNKER WAS ESSENTIALLY A

MAIN ROOM SURROUNDED BY AN ANNULUS WITH TWIN ANTEROOMS OFF

THE ENTRANCE.  155MM AND 12MM SHELLS WERE STACKED IN THE

ANTEROOMS.  (FIELD COMMENT--THE CHIEF INSPECTOR STATED

THAT THERE APPEARED TO BE NO `RHYME OR REASON' TO IRAQI

STORAGE PROCEDURES.)

4F.                                  IRAQI BUILDING THREE//GEOCOORD:

305745.5N0460940.0E//.  THIS STRUCTURE WAS ONE OF THREE

SUCH STRUCTURES LOCATED AT THE AN-NASIRIYAH SITE.

ESSENTIALLY THESE FACILITIES WERE CONSTRUCTED OF BRICK AND

CORRUGATED TIN, AND BUILT AT-GRADE.  THE DAMAGE ASSOCIATED

WITH THESE FACILITIES WAS EXPLAINED AS OCCURRING FROM THE

BLAST WAVE FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF ADJACENT STRUCTURES.

AN EXAMINATION OF BUILDING THREE REVEALED THE FOLLOWING

CONTENTS--

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-Q240MM CHINESE MORTAR ROUNDS

-

-Q122MM HE ROCKETS (JORDANIAN)

-

-Q155MM HIGH EXPLOSIVE ANTI-TANK, TNT,

-    AND CYCLOTRIMETHYLENE NITRAMINE (RDX)

-QOF U.S. MANUFACTURE

-

-QROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE LAUNCHERS (RPG)

-

-QLIGHT ANTI-TANK WEAPONS OF RUSSIAN MANUFACTURE

-

-QSMALL ARMS AMMUNITION

-

-QTOW OF U.S. MANUFACTURE

-

-QAT-3 SAGGER ANTI-TANK GUIDED MISSILE OF RUSSIAN

-QMANUFACTURE

-

-Q120MM TANK AMMUNITION OF U.S. MANUFACTURE



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4G.                                    IN SUMMARY, THERE WAS NO

INDICATION THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY CW MUNITIONS STORED AT

THIS SITE.  FURTHERMORE, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, EITHER

PHYSICAL OR AS A RESULT OF DISCUSSIONS WITH IRAQI

REPRESENTATIVES, THAT THERE WERE CW MUNITIONS STORED HERE

IN ADDITION TO THOSE 6,000 HD MUNITIONS INDICATED ABOVE.

5.                                   THE FOLLOWING IS A LISTING OF THE

LOCATION OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF CW MUNITIONS AND IS A DIRECT

EXCERPT FROM IRAQ'S MOST RECENT CHEMICAL FULL, FINAL, AND

COMPLETE DISCLOSURE (FFCD), PRESENTED TO UNSCOM ON 960513-

-

-QSTATUS OF MUNITIONS FILLED WITH MUSTARD AND LOCATION-

-

-                 QUAN-   TYPE OF

STORAGE SITE      TITY   MUNITIONS

-

AL-MUHAMMADIYAT   200    AERIAL BOMB 250

SADDAM BASE       315    AERIAL BOMB 250

SADDAM BASE       90     AERIAL BOMB 500

AL-BAKR BASE      25     AERIAL BOMB 250

AL-BAKR BASE      135    AERIAL BOMB 500

AL-KADISIYA BASE  135    AERIAL BOMB 250

AL-KADISIYA BASE  315    AERIAL BOMB 500

AL-TUZ            225    AERIAL BOMB 250

AL-TUZ            135    AERIAL BOMB 500

TAMOZ BASE        200    AERIAL BOMB 250

AL-NASIRIYA

MUNITIONS STORES  6,240  ARTILLERY SHELL 155MM

(AL-KAIMISIYA)

AL-AUKHADER

MUNITIONS STORES  6,394  ARTILLERY SHELL 155MM

(THEN TRANSFERRED TO CHEMICAL PROVING GROUND)

-

-QSTATUS OF R-400 FILLED WITH IRAQI BINARY AND

LOCATION--

-

STORAGE SITE            QUANTITY

-

AL-WALEED AIR BASE      176

SADDAM AIR BASE         80

AL-KADISIYA AIR BASE    240

SAAD AIR BASE           28

TAMOZ AIR BASE          120

TALHA AIRSTRIP          60

MURSANA AIRSTRIP        160

AL-TABAAT AIRSTRIP      160

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-QSTATUS OF DISTRIBUTION OF OTHER MUNITIONS--

-                 QUAN-   TYPE OF

STORAGE SITE      TITY   MUNITIONS

-

AIRSTRIP-37       125    AERIAL BOMB/250 FILLED CS

(TAMOOZ AIR BASE)

AL-MUHAMMADIYAT   12     AERIAL BOMB/DB-2 FILLED WITH

                          SARIN

AL-MAYMONA MUNI-

TIONS (STORE)     4,100  ROCKET 122MM FILLED WITH SARIN

AL-AUKHADER MUNI-

TIONS (STORE)     2,160  ROCKET 122MM FILLED WITH SARIN

AL-KAMISIYA       2,160  ROCKET 122MM FILLED WITH SARIN

DUJALA AWARA      30     AL-HUSSEIN WARHEADS, 16 FILLED

                          WITH SARIN, 14 FILLED WITH

                          ALCOHOL

AL-NEBAIE         20     AL-HUSSEIN WARHEADS, FILLED WITH

                          ALCOHOL



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