PERSIAN GULF CRISIS UPDATE

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AUG 90







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1. IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE

    PERSIAN GULF CRISIS UPDATE

       --PROBABLE IRAQI FROG IN KUWAIT







COMBINE; COMPLETE



1. IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE



PERSIAN GULF CRISIS UPDATE

 -- PROBABLE IRAQI FROG               IN KUWAIT





A PROBABLE IRAQI FROG BRIGADE WAS       IN KUWAIT

IN OTHER ACTIVITY, IRAQ HAS REPOSITIONED SOME OF ITS

FORCES IN SOUTHERN KUWAIT, NEAR THE SAUDI ARABIAN-BORDER. IN

KUWAIT CITY, A CONVOY OF UNIDENTIFIED VEHICLES

NEAR THE US EMBASSY



THE FOLLOWING SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY WAS     IN

 KUWAIT

(SIWN)





PROBABLE IRAQI FROG BRIGADE





A FROG-7 BRIGADE WAS      IN KUWAIT 40 KM WEST OF

KUWAIT CITY AND ABOUT 5 KM NORTHWEST OF AL JAHRA. WHILE THIS

BRIGADE IS MOST LIKELY ONE OF THE TWO IRAQI FROG-7 BRIGADES

THAT DEPARTED THE AL MUFRASH AREA OF IRAQ





THE IRAQIS USE

STAKEBED TRUCKS TO TRANSPORT FROG-7 AIRFRAMES.





THE FROG BRIGADE     CONSISTED OF NINE TEL (AT

LEAST THREE, AND POSSIBLY FOUR, LOADED WITH AIRFRAMES), FIVE

STAKEBED TRUCKS (TWO WITH POSSIBLE ROCKETS), AND NUMEROUS

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT.       AUGUST, AN ARTILLERY BATTALION WAS IN

THIS AREA BUT     DEPARTED.            TWO IRAQI FROG-7

BRIGADES WERE DEPLOYED IN AN OPEN AREA SOUTHEAST OF AL MUFRASH,

IRAQ, AT 30-12N/047-33E.





THE SECOND IRAQI FROG BRIGADE          LOCATED IN KUWAIT.

THE UNIT IS 5 KM NORTHEAST OF THE OTHER FROG BRIGADE. MORE

DETAILED INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.





IRAQI GROUND FORCES DEPLOYED IN THE SOUTH





A BM-21 MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER BATTERY HAS DEPLOYED ALONG

THE COAST ROAD, 7 KM NORTH OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN-KUWAITI

BORDER.





IRAQI AIR FORCES



 - AN IRAQI CANDID HEAVY JET TRANSPORT HAS ARRIVED AT ALI AL

 SALEM AIRFIELD, IN CENTRAL KUWAIT            A PROBABLE

 KUWAITI MIRAGE FL MULTIROLE FIGHTER WAS PARKED IN   FRONT OF A

 HARDENED AIRCRAFT BUNKER AT THE AIRFIELD.





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