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Subject: IRAQI - DEFENSE OF KUWAIT

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







TO FACILITATE ELECTRONIC ACCESS, THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN

REFORMATTED TO ELIMINATE INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT PERTAIN

TO GULF WAR ILLNESS ISSUES OR THAT IS CLASSIFIED. A COPY OF

THIS REDACTED DOCUMENT, IN ORIGINAL FORMAT, IS AVAILABLE ON

REQUEST.







DEC 90







OBSERVATIONS ON IRAQI

PREPARATIONS TO DEFEND KUWAIT CITY.          THE IRAQIS

HAD EMPLOYED EXTENSIVE BOOBY TRAPS IN AND AROUND KUWAIT CITY

HOTELS.          IRAQI TROOPS HAD TRAPPED CHAIRS, STACKED

SEAT DOWN ON HOTEL TABLES, WITH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES IN SUCH A WAY

THAT MOVING A CHAIR WOULD DETONATE THE EXPLOSIVES. ALSO TRAPPED

WITH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES WERE ITEMS SUCH AS WINDSURF BOARDS LEFT

ON OR NEAR HOTEL BEACHES, AUTOMOBILE DOORS WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT

SLIGHTLY AJAR AND HOTEL ENTRANCES.

THE BEACHFRONT DOORS OF THE SAS HOTEL HAD BEEN RIGGED IN THIS

MANNER.          THE IRAQIS HAD ALSO SOWN EXTENSIVE

MINEFIELDS IN BEACH AREAS AND ON GOLF COURSES BUT

NONE OF THE MINES HAD BEEN BURIED.          DESCRIBED

THE MINES AS "PLATE MINES"







IRAQI INSTALLATION OF THREE- TO FOUR-FEET HIGH CONCRETE

BOXES AT RANDOM POINTS ALONG THE CURBS OF SIDEWALKS IN KUWAIT

CITY.          ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS

IRAQI TROOPS WEARING GAS MASKS AND ELBOW-LENGTH RUBBER GLOVES.

LOADING THE BOXES WITH WHITE AND BLUE PLASTIC CONTAINERS.

THE PLASTIC CONTAINERS BORE NO MARKINGS, APPEARED TO

HAVE A CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY 25 GALLONS AND RESEMBLED U.S.

VIETNAM-ERA ARMY WATER CONTAINERS, THE DIAMETER OF THE MIDDLE OF

THE DRUMS BEING SLIGHTER GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE DRUM

ENDS.          AT LEAST FOUR OR FIVE OF THESE BOXES WERE

PLACED IN PROXIMITY TO          AND THAT OTHER AREAS OF

CONCENTRATION WERE THE ZONES ADJACENT TO HOTELS AND BANKS.

THE BOXES TENDED TO BLEND WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS

SINCE THEY RESEMBLED THE TYPE OF CONCRETE OBSTACLES PLACED ON

CURBS TO PREVENT VEHICLES FROM MOUNTING THE SIDEWALK.

DID NOT OBSERVE SPECIAL MARKINGS ON EITHER THE

UNIFORMS OF THE TROOPS HANDLING THE CONTAINERS OR THEIR

VEHICLES.          THE ONLY NBC PROTECTIVE GEAR

 IN USE BY THE IRAQI TROOPS IN AND AROUND KUWAIT

CITY WAS THE GAS MASK AND GLOVES          DID NOT SEE ANY FULL NBC

SUITS IN USE.







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