TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH

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SUBJECT: TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH

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Executive Summary

September 1990



Middle East

Situation Report (U)



Notes



ORIGINAL

Division Office



Information available as of   September

was used in the preparation of this report.



Middle East: Situation Report





Some movement of Iraqi units continued, but the 

disposition of force was essentially unchanged





Near Ras RI Qulayah, Kuwait, the Iraqis were setting

up a chemical decontamination site, the first

           in Kuwait since the crisis 

began. The site,          identical to

ones the Iraqis set up during the Iran-Iraq war,

consists of at least seven V-shaped drainage

trenches. Site preparations were not complete, and

no decontamination vehicles were present. Such

sites am used to wash down vehicles and equipment

contaminated by chemical weapons . 



In Iraq, checkout and testing of new-type mobile erector-launchers for Iraqi Scud

missiles continued at Taji. The Scud missile that was erect on its erector-launcher

had been lowered                A total of 12 Scud missiles were in the area. 



the program is progressing steadily. 







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