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    revetment, was dragged through the dirt for about thirty feet until he swerve
    back the opposite direction until he buried that wing also. The Iraqi colonel
    as obviously embarrassed and I thought our whole bus load did really well no
    to laugh out loud too much, but it took an extreme effort. Damage was visible
    and I figure we should get credit for one kill. 
    
    	The two teams rejoined at 1430 and proceeded to the Iraqi Air Force
    Officers dining hall for a sumptuous feast of bread rice and a tomato and
    zucchini based soup and the ever present after meal tea. Really not too bad a
    all.
    
   	 Team departed for Baghdad at 1520 and arrived at 1720. Return trip was
    uneventful except for the opportunity to sneak a few more damage pictures.
    
    2000 Team meeting: Helicopter situation has not been resolved and we will
    proceed to another undeclared inspection site near Baghdad tomorrow. Take
    Sunday off and if the situation is not resolved, we will return to Bahrain
    early. The UN does not want us flying in Iragi Mi-17 helicopters.
    
   	 Had dinner that night at the '"Golden Plate Restaurant" with New
    Zealand doctors and medics. Food was really quite good, typical middle eastern
    cuisine, pita bread, mashed egg plant, mashed chick peas, grape leaves with
    tomato, cucumbers, boiled spiced potato, ''Iraqi Kabobs" mostly lamb and
    pickled red onions, grilled steaks with mushrooms. Good cold German beer.
    Later we tried a Jordanian version of Ouzo or Raki. All in keeping with the
    spirit and intent of the UN in appreciating and sampling the culture available
    to us of course. Iraqi hospitality is actually very good. Like so many other
    hings its management that has a problem!
    
    8 Sep 91: Depart 0730 for Khan Al Mahawil Barracks School Brigade Headquarter
    Air Defense. Arrived about 0900 and a great deal of damage was evident.
    Difficult to tell exactly what there targets were other than the base it self
    Lots of AAA, ZSU23/4 around as well as fixed positions. Taken to the
    Brigadiers office and given a briefing on his responsibilities. This
    apparently is a training site for air defense, air traffic control, radar,
    cooking, engineers, transportation, intelligence, and artillery. The team
    chief then explained our purpose and gave the Brigadier the locations we
    wanted to inspect which he quickly told us were not on his installation. The
    "briefing team" apparently thought this was all one large installation. We
    proceeded, rather humbly, down the road to the correct site, called Camp
    Babylon, where a major jumped on board to escort us. We proceeded to the
    munitions storage area, which was not where we wanted to go. We then drove to
    a series of storage buildings. On one side partially covered with a tarp was
    one FROG transport vehicle with three rockets visible. one of the storage
    buildings contained 15 FROG transport vehicles and a weather vehicle. Another
    contained 11 FROG vehicles and a Command and control vehicle. The next 
    contained 10 FROG transporter vehicles, 11 launchers, eight generators and
    trucks. The next facility contained 22 ZIL vehicles, 11 of which were
    transporter, erector launchers. Between the buildings leading away from one
    empty one were tire tracks that had been swept over to hide tracks which our
    Soviet inspector claimed were appropriate for SCUD transporter vehicles. Six
    similar structures were inspected that contained miscellaneous spare parts.
    the side of one facility, we located three SCUD transport trailers that had
    been cut in half and then rewelded with metal panels to reattach the tongue.
    They apparently had been "destroyed'' during UNSCOM 3 at Ta;i. The Iraqis saw
    
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