4401 ARG (P) EXPLOSIVE ORNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) REPORT

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	    Inspected Shahab Ahmad storage site.   No ballistic missile related
    items were found. This site had a lot of chemicals and fuel spilled every
    where. Team did f ind eight command anc! control vehicles that were used to
    control FROG missile batteries, but these were not covered by the U:N.
    resolut ions .
    
    	Al Sahra/Tikrit East munitions storage site.   The area was hit b
    allied bombing.   Many roads into the area were damaged by submunitions. No
    dud munitions were found in the area. No ballistic missile items were found
    site. The following munitions were found in the area:
    
    	- FROG-7 ( LUNA M ) roc kets - Total of  375 rockets were discovered .
 	 - M557 US projectile fuzes - several cases were found with Egyptia
                   markings.
  	- 122 mm projectiles - unfuzed, shipped from Jordan
	- 14.7mm small arms ammunition- five warehouses were found full, a
    shipped from Jordan.
  	- 122mm rockets - Fazed ( DKZ ) , about 100 high explosive rockets were
    found .
    
    3 Oct 91: Team checked out of hote1 in Baghdad and departed for Al Rasheed
    Airfield. Team met with German airvrews and departed by CH-C53G for the
    Western Zone of Iran. Approximately halfway there, we landed and inspected
    mobile SCUD transporter--erectcr-launeher ( TEL) decoy that had been destroyed
    by GBU-12's. A lot of GBU tail sections were found in the area: with "For (?
    on MK-82 Only" on them. Team departed and landed at Shab A1 Hiri Airfield
    Western Iraq. Team was transporteed to Akashat Phosphate Mine for lunch ant
    checked into their housing area. Thc housing area was used for the mine
    workers before the war and since the processing plant was totally destroyed
    the area was empty.
    
    Team was transported to Wadi Ar Ratna missile site. A total of
    six fixed missile 1aunch sites were visited. Three were totally destroyed
    by bombs, three were hit but not totally destroyed. The area was littered
    with dispenser and submunition parts. We found one live BLU-97 and one BLU
    bomblet during the inspection. Iraqi personnel were directed to destroy it
    undamaged launchers immediately which there to be reinspected the followings
    day. The chief inspector had us develop a destruction method for the launch
    but later let the Iraqi engineers use their own method. The following
    munitions were used in this area: SUU-64/65.   SUU-30 H/B MK-20, BLU-91./92,
    BLU-97, MK-118, and MK-82/84's. Thee launcher sites were set up about 1 to
    2 km apart in the area. The launchers were fixed position and fired by a
    mobile command and control vehicle. None of the launchers appeared to have
    been fired due to the absence of scorch marks on the bases.
    
    4 Oct 91:  Team inspected two TEL decoy sites.  Vehicles were hit directly
with bomb strikes.  There were no bomb craters around them suggesting any
misses (good shooting).  Sites were located about 40 km south of Oalm in
Western Iraq.  Many dud  submunitions were found in the area, mainly 
BLU-63s.  Munitions used in the area:  MK-20, MK-118, SUU-30, BLU-63, 2.7
rockets, SUU-64/65.

	Inspected Wadi Al Jabbariyah missile site.  A total of seven fi
missile sites were inspected.  The bus arrived a the first missile launch
and tghe EOD team went to sweep the area for munitions.  While inside the s
two trucks arrived and about 30 armed troops jumped out and surrounded us
all pointing inward.  After about five minutes of heavy sweating, our Iraq
escorts yelled at the troops to turn around.  Appartently, they were our
protection at the site.  The site was located out in the middle of nowhere
so we do not know who they were protecting us from.  Two of the launchers

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