TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH

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SUBJECT: TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH

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JUL 90





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1. IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE

IRAQ: IRAQI TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH



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1. IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER DISPUTE



IRAQ: IRAQI TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH



                       LOADED ON TRUCKS

ABOUT 15 NM SOUTHWEST OF AL BASRAH. 

                       ELEMENTS OF ONE 130MM

M-46 ARTILLERY BATTALION, ONE PROBABLE 120MM MORTAR BATTALION.

            WERE ALSO

LOADED ON TRACTOR TRAILERS. ELEMENTS OF ONE 130M TYPE 59-1

FIELD GUN BATTALION WERE PARKED NEARBY. TWO D-30 BATTALIONS

WERE PARKED IN A TENT BIVOUAC

IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE LOADING ACTIVITY.





OTHER MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS IN THE AREA INCLUDED TWO ARTILLERY

BATTALIONS (ONE 130MM TYPE 59-1 AND ONE D-30) WHICH WERE 24 NM

WEST OF AL BASRAH.

         A 130MM M-46 ARTILLERY BATTALION WAS

DEPLOYED 11 NM SOUTHWEST OF AL BASRAH, 



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