IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE

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SUBJECT: IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE

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I.IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE

IRAQ-KUWAIT: SITUATION UPDATE



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1.IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE



IRAQ-KUWAIT: SITUATION UPDATE







IRAQI FORCES HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED TO WITHIN 8 KM OF THE KUWAITI-SAUDI

ARABIAN BORDER. ADDITIONAL IRAQI MANEUVER AND ARTILLERY ASSETS

          TO CONSOLIDATE AND DEPLOY, BOTH WITHIN KUWAIT

CITY AND ALONG THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN APPROACHES TO THE





 

CAPITAL







AIR ACTIVITY IN IRAQ



EVIDENCE OF IRAQI COMBAT-RELATED ACTIVITY WAS         AT

UBAYDAH BIN AL JARRAH AIRFIELD IN IRAQ, WHERE 16 F.1 MIRAGE

WERE PRESENT. DOORS TO THE AIRFIELD AMMUNITION STORAGE BUNKERS

HAD BEEN OPENED AND AMMUNITION CRATES WERE          NEARBY. IN

ADDITION, SEVERAL F.1 WERE        LOADED WITH ORDNANCE.







IN RELATED ACTIVITY, NINE FULCRUM AND SIX FOXBAT HAD RECENTLY

ARRIVED AT JALIBAH SOUTHEAST AIRFIELD.







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