AL MATLA UMM AL AISH ARMY CAMP

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SUBJECT: AL MATLA UMM AL AISH ARMY CAMP

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ITEM/032/AL MATLA UMM AL AISH ARMY CAMP NNE/IBE:0445CA0062/CAT:90110/CTY:KU/Y

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RMK           NORTHERN KUWAIT ON            FEBRUARY1992 REVEALED

SECURITY UPGRADES TO AN AMMUNITION STORAGE AREA EAST OF THIS

FACILITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW OPEN STORAGE AREA NORTHWEST

OF THIS FACILITY.







AL MATLA UMM AL AISH ARMY CAMP NNE WAS OCCUPIED BY AN IRAQI

COMMAND UNIT FOLLOWING THE INVASION OF KUWAIT IN AUGUST 1990. THE

FACILITY WAS SERVED BY AN UNDERGROUND CABLE (PROBABLY CONNECTING

THE INSTALLATION WITH KUWAIT CITY AND UNITS TO THE WEST) WHICH WAS

CONSTRUCTED IN SEPTEMBER 1990. ALSO, ONE R-400-404 RADIO RELAY

STATION ARRIVED IN THE INSTALLATION BETWEEN           AUGUST 1990.

THIS STATION WAS PRESENT AT THE SAME TIME AS ANOTHER R-400-404

AND THREE RL420-430 RADIO RELAY STATIONS AT THE NEARBY MUJAYLIS

RADIO RELAY STATION           







SINCE           JANUARY 1991, THE SECURITY AROUND THE AMMUNITIONS STORAGE

AREA EAST OF THIS FACILITY HAS BEEN ENHANCED AND THE AREA HAS

BEEN CLEANED UP. SECURITY UPGRADES INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 

PERIMETER FENCE, A BERM INSIDE THE PERIMETER FENCE, AND A SECOND

FENCE INSIDE THE BERM. INSIDE THIS TRIPLE-LAYER OF SECURITY, TWO

SEPARATELY FENCE-SECURED BUNKERS WERE PRESENT. AT LEAST ONE OF 

THESE BUNKERS REMAINS DAMAGED FROM COALITION AIRSTRIKES DURING

OPERATION DESERT STORM. IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THIS AREA          

OPEN STORAGE REVETMENTS HAVE ALSO BEEN CONSTRUCTED.           







ALSO, A NEW BERMED STORAGE AREA, AL MATLA UM AL AISH PROB CHEM

STOR           , HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED NORTHWEST OF THE MAIN

PORTION OF THE CAMP SINCE          JANUARY 1991. THE RECTANGULAR-SHAPED

BERMED AREA CONTAINS          STANDARD 20-FOOT SHIPPING

CRATES.          THESE CRATES WERE STORED JUST INSIDE THE 

ENTRANCE TO THE AREA AND THE REMAINING CRATES WERE ARRANGED IN

GROUPS THAT WERE DISPERSED WITHIN THE AREA. TWO PEAK-ROOFED

CRATES-BUILDINGS, ONE 40-FOOT SHIPPING CRATE, AND            

            SMALL CONTAINERS WERE JUST OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO THE 

BERM-SECURED AREA.









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