UNDERGROUND FACILITIES IN IRAQ

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Subject: UNDERGROUND FACILITIES IN IRAQ

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JAN 91      DIRECTOR 488488







CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE







DIST:          1991



COUNTRY:  IRAQ



SUBJ:  1. UNDERGROUND FACILITIES IN IRAQ

2. SECRET FACILITY AT PHOSPHATE PROJECT AT AL QAIM







SUMMARY:          UNDERGROUND BUNKERS

ARE LOCATED BENEATH THE STEEL MILL EAST OF SAFWAN, IRAQ. AN

UNDERGROUND ARTILLERY AND CHEMICAL MUNITIONS FACILITY IS LOCATED AT

AL YARMOOK OUTSIDE BAGHDAD. A POWER GENERATING STATION IS LOCATED

SOUTH AND WEST OF NASIRIYA TO POWER AN UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATED

IN THE RUINS AT ZIGGURAT. A LARGE UNDERGROUND DEPOT IS LOCATED IN

THE HILLS ABOUT 16 KILOMETERS EAST OF RAMADI NEAR HABBANYA ON THE

SOUTH SIDE OF HIGHWAY 10. AN UNDERGROUND FACILITY IS LOCATED BENEATH

THE REPUBLICAN GUARD BARRACKS ON THE OLD PALACE COMPOUND IN BAGHDAD.



TEXT: 1.          UNDERGROUND

BUNKERS ARE LOCATED BENEATH THE STEEL MILL EAST OF SAFWAN, IRAQ. THE

LARGEST OF THESE BUNKERS IS LOCATED BENEATH THE BLAST FURNACE. THE

FLOOR SUPPORTING THE BLAST FURNACE IS STEEL OVER CONCRETE. A

VENTILATION SHAFT RUNS THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE STEEL MILL TO SUPPLY

AIR TO THIS BUNKER, AND THE BUNKER IS LARGE ENOUGH THAT IT WAS USED

AS A CAFETERIA AND RECREATION AREA FOR THE STEEL MILL EMPLOYEES WHEN

THE STEEL MILL BEGAN OPERATION. SEVERAL OTHER BUNKERS ARE LOCATED

UNDER THE STEEL MILL, AND EACH BUNKER HAS ITS OWN INDEPENDENT

VENTILATION SYSTEM.          THE STEEL MILL WAS REPEATEDLY

BOMBED DURING THE WAR WITH IRAN, AND THE UNDERGROUND FACILITY BENEATH

THE BLAST FURNACE MAY BE THE MOST SECURE LOCATION IN SOUTH IRAQ.)

THE STEEL MILL WAS ALSO A HUMAN SHIELD LOCATION FROM

EARLY SEPTEMBER TO EARLY DECEMBER 1990.)



2. AN UNDERGROUND ARTILLERY AND CHEMICAL MUNITIONS FACILITY

IS LOCATED AT AL YARMOOK OUTSIDE BAGHDAD. THE MAIN FACILITY IS

LOCATED CLOSE TO THE RUINS AT ZAKURA,

A SPECIAL WATER

TREATMENT FACILITY WAS BUILT FOR THIS UNDERGROUND FACILITY.



3. UNDERGROUND BUNKERS ARE LOCATED AT THE MAIN POWER PLANT AT

NASIRIYA. ANOTHER POWER GENERATING STATION LOCATED SOUTH AND WEST OF

NASIRIYA TO POWER AN UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATED IN THE RUINS AT

ZIGGURAT.









4. A LARGE UNDERGROUND DEPOT IS LOCATED IN THE HILLS ABOUT 16

KILOMETERS EAST OF RAMADI NEAR HABBANYA ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HIGHWAY

10. AN OLD BRITISH AIRFIELD IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HIGHWAY

10 ACROSS FROM THE LARGE UNDERGROUND DEPOT. THE ENTRANCES TO THE

DEPOT ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE FROM THE AIR SINCE THE CONCRETE STRUCTURES

OF THE ENTRANCES ONLY EXTEND A FEW FEET FROM THE HILLS, AND THE

ACCESS ROADS HAVE NEVER BEEN PAVED.







5. AN UNDERGROUND MISSILE DEPOT IS LOCATED AT THE NAVAL BASE

AT UMM QASR.







9. A SECRET PROJECT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PHOSPHATE FACILITY

AT AL QAIM NEAR THE SYRIAN BORDER.







IN 1984, TRUCK-MOBILE MISSILES WERE

KEPT IN GUARDED BUILDINGS NEXT TO IDENTICAL PHOSPHATE PROCESSING

BUILDINGS AT THIS FACILITY.







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