POSSIBLE CW MUNITIONS STORAGE

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1.PERSIAN GULF CRISIS



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COMBINE: COMPLETE



1.PERSIAN GULF CRISIS



IRAQ: POSSIBLE CW MUNITIONS STORAGE

FACILITIES AT AR RUMYLAH



CHEMICAL WASH-DOWN SITES, CONSISTING OF V-SHAPED

TRENCHES, WERE AT AR RUMAYLAH REPUBLICAN GUARD AMMO

STORAGE FACILITIES 1 AND 2 ON

DECEMBER 1990. AR RUMAYLAH IS APPROXIMATELY 28 KM WEST OF

AL BASRAH AND APPROXIMATELY 45 KM NORTH OF THE KUWAIT BORDER.



BOTH OF THESE RECTANGULARLY SHAPED STORAGE FACILITIES ARE

SURROUNDED BY DUAL DEFENSIVE BERMS AND CONTAIN APPROXIMATELY 50

TRUCK-SIZED OPEN STORAGE REVETMENTS. A CHEMICAL WASH-DOWN SITE

IS IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE THE GATE OF FACILITY 1 AND INSIDE THE

MAIN COMPOUND IN THE WEST CORNER OF FACILITY 2.  THE WASH-DOWN

SITES HAD BEEN INSTALLED SINCE NOVEMBER. BY DECEMBER,

TWO ADDITIONAL WASH-DOWN SITES HAD BEEN COMPLETED, AND

LIGHTNING ARRESTERS HAD BEEN INSTALLED AT SEVERAL REVETMENTS,

ALL AT FACILITY 1.    IN PROBABLE RELATED ACTIVITY, CONCERTINA

WIRE HAD BEEN INSTALLED ALONG THE DEFENSIVE BERMS AT BOTH

FACILITIES BY DECEMBER. A MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER (MRL)

BATTALION IS DEPLOYED ADJACENT TO EACH FACILITY.







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