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SECTION 01 OF 02
CITE: (U) CASE 91-031; CCR 91-157.
SERIAL: (U) IIR 1 518 0022 91.
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PASS TO: (U) [b.2., b.6.]
COUNTRY: (U) IRAQ (IZ); KUWAIT (KU).
SUBJECT: IIR 1 518 0022 91//CONDITIONS IN OCCUPIED KUWAIT CITY --
DESERT SHIELD
WARNING: (U) THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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DOI: (U) 901209.
REQS: (U) T-8C2-1100-62-90; T-8C2-2650-01-90.
SOURCE: //OTS1522-0007-91//
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SUMMARY: THE MAJORITY OF IRAQI TROOPS SEEN BY SOURCE IN THE
SALINIYA DISTRICT OF KUWAIT CITY WERE APPARENTLY UNTRAINED AND
PHYSICALLY UNFIT. THE IRAQIS INSTALLED A SUSPECTED CHEMICAL WEAPON NEAR
THE U.S. EMBASSY. CBW PROTECTIVE GEAR WAS EVIDENT ONLY AMONG
TROOPS AROUND THE EMBASSY AND AT KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
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TEXT: 1. INTRODUCTION. THIS REPORT CONTAINS INFO ON CONDITIONS IN IRAQI-
OCCUPIED KUWAIT CITY FROM AUG TO EARLY DEC 90. SPECIFIC TOPICS INCLUDE --
OVERALL CALIBER OF OCCUPATION FORCES (PARA 2); ARREST OF BRITISH NATIONALS
(PARA 3); SUSPECTED CHEMICAL AGENTS (PARA 4); CHEMICAL DEFENSE GEAR OF
OCCUPATION FORCES (PARA 5); FORTIFICATIONS (PARA 6); ANTI-RESISTANCE MEASURES
(PARA 7);
AVAILABILITY OF FOOD TO LOCAL POPULACE (PARA 8); UTILITIES (PARA 9); AND
SANITARY CONDITIONS (PARA 10).
2. OVERALL CALIBER OF OCCUPATION FORCES. FROM 2 AUG 90 --
WHEN IRAQ INVADED KUWAIT -- UNTIL 9 DEC 90 -- WHEN ALL WESTERNERS
WERE FREE TO LEAVE IRAQ AND KUWAIT -- SOURCE HID IN HIS APARTMENT,
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FRIENDLY KUWAITIS BROUGHT HIM FOOD DURING THE ENTIRE PERIOD. AS A RESULT,
SOURCE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO OBSERVE CONDITIONS UNDER THE OCCUPATION WERE
LIMITED. NEVERTHELESS, HE DAILY SAW IRAQI TROOPS VISITING A NEARBY COOP
MARKET TO GET FOOD. THESE TROOPS, WHO ARRIVED AND DEPARTED BY TRUCK,
CONSISTED OVERWHELMINGLY OF MIDDLE-AGED, PHYSICALLY UNFIT MEN;
APPARENTLY THEY WERE EACH GIVEN A UNIFORM AND A GUN WITHOUT ANY REAL
TRAINING. AFTER IRAQ DECLARED ALL WESTERNERS FREE TO LEAVE, SOURCE PASSED
ABOUT 15 OF THESE TROOPS, WHO HAD CONGREGATED AT THE COOP; NOT A SINGLE ONE
CHALLENGED HIM. (SOURCE COMMENT -- I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE IRAQIS ARE
COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER; NEITHER I, NOR A BRITISH ACQUAINTANCE HIDING
IN ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY, EVER SAW A SINGLE WHIP ANTENNA ON ANY IRAQI
TRUCKS.)
3. ARREST OF BRITISH NATIONALS. IN CONTRAST TO MOST TROOPS
OBSERVED BY SOURCE WAS A CONTINGENT OF APPROXIMATELY EIGHT IRAQI
SOLDIERS, WHICH SOURCE ONCE SAW (ABOUT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS
DEPARTURE FROM KUWAIT) ARRESTING BRITISH NATIONALS IN HIS
NEIGHBORHOOD. THE SOLDIERS ON THIS TEAM ALL WORE RED BERETS AND
CARRIED AUTOMATIC RIFLES; THEY WERE PHYSICALLY FIT AND APPARENTLY
WELL TRAINED. THEY ARRIVED IN SOURCE'S NEIGHBORHOOD IN THREE
APPARENTLY COMMANDEERED VEHICLES -- TWO CADILLACS AND A PICKUP TRUCK, THE
LATTER OUTFITTED WITH A MACHINE GUN. STOPPING AT AN APARTMENT BUILDING
NEAR SOURCE'S, THEY DISEMBARKED FROM THEIR VEHICLES, FORCED THEIR WAY
THROUGH THREE SEPARATE ENTRANCES, AND RETURNED WITH ABOUT EIGHT BRITISH
NATIONALS IN CUSTODY. (SOURCE COMMENT -- THESE TROOPS WERE GONE ALMOST AS
SOON AS THEY ARRIVED. I WAS SURPRISED THAT THEY NEVER CHECKED MY
APARTMENT. MOST OF THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS ON MY STREET WERE VACATED, SO
THEY SHOULD HAVE BECOME SUSPICIOUS WHEN THEY SAW THAT MY CURTAINS WERE
CLOSED. MY GUESS IS THAT THEY IGNORED MY PLACE BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT
UNDER SPECIFIC ORDERS TO CHECK IT OUT.)
4. SUSPECTED CHEMICAL AGENTS. ANOTHER AMERICAN, WITH WHOM
SOURCE SPOKE AFTER DEPARTING KUWAIT, SOUGHT REFUGE IN THE U.S.
EMBASSY WHEN THE IRAQIS INVADED. ACCORDING TO THIS PERSON, THE
IRAQIS BUILT A CINDERBLOCK SHED NEAR THE EMBASSY AND PLACED TWO
CYLINDRICAL TANKS INSIDE. THIS ACQUAINTANCE SUSPECTED THAT THE TANKS
CONTAINED SOMETHING LIKE MUSTARD GAS. HE ALSO SAW, BETWEEN THESE TWO
TANKS, SOMETHING WHICH HE SUSPECTED TO BE AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE. THE SHED
WAS LOCATED SO THAT THE PREVAILING WINDS WOULD BLOW ANY CHEMICAL AGENTS
AWAY FROM THE EMBASSY AND OUT TO THE GULF. (SOURCE COMMENT -- EITHER THE
IRAQIS FAILED TO REALIZE THIS; OR THEY INTENDED THE GAS FOR USE, NOT AGAINST
THE EMBASSY, BUT AGAINST ALLIED FORCES COMING FROM THE GULF.) (FIELD
COMMENT -- SOURCE HAD NO FURTHER DETAILS ON THE SHED OR ITS CONTENTS.)
5. CHEMICAL DEFENSE GEAR OF OCCUPATION FORCES. ACCORDING TO SOURCE'S
AMERICAN ACQUAINTANCE, ABOUT THREE TIMES DURING THE PERIOD 2 AUG - 9 DEC 90,
IRAQI TROOPS SURROUNDING THE U.S. EMBASSY IN KUWAIT DONNED CBW PROTECTIVE
SUITS. (SOURCE COMMENT -- HIS OPINION WAS THAT THEY'D HAVE BEEN DEAD IN A
REAL-LIFE SITUATION, IT TOOK THEM SO LONG TO GET THE GEAR ON.) AT KUWAIT
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHERE SOURCE WAS TOLD TO REPORT WHEN HE WAS FREE
TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, THERE WERE TROOPS CARRYING GAS MASKS IN SATCHELS.
HOWEVER, NO OTHER IRAQI TROOPS SEEN BY SOURCE HIMSELF EVER CARRIED CBW
PROTECTIVE GEAR.
6. FORTIFICATIONS. ON THE SAME STREET AS SOURCE'S APARTMENT WAS A TWO-
STORY BUILDING THAT HAD HOUSED A BRITISH-RUN PRIVATE
SCHOOL. (SOURCE COMMENT -- THIS BUILDING STOOD ON SUPPORTS, SO THAT THE ROOF
WAS, IN EFFECT, THREE STORIES HIGH.) ON THE DAY OF HIS DEPARTURE, SOURCE SAW
THAT DESKS, CHAIRS, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, AND AIR CONDITIONERS FROM THE
SCHOOL HAD BEEN PILED ONTO A FLATBED SEMI PARKED IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
MOREOVER, EVERY WINDOW THAT HE COULD SEE HAD BEEN FILLED IN WITH
CINDERBLOCK. IN THE CENTER OF EACH ENCLOSURE WAS A CROSS-SHAPED OPENING
MEASURING NOT MORE THAN 4 IN BY 4 IN. ABOUT EIGHT IRAQI SOLDIERS, ARMED WITH
AUTOMATIC RIFLES, WERE SITTING ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE BUILDING. (FIELD
COMMENT -- SOURCE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER THIS BUILDING WAS FUNCTIONING AS A
HEADQUARTERS.)
7. ANTI-RESISTANCE MEASURES. SOURCE'S BRITISH ACQUAINTANCE
SAID THAT, IF A SUSPECTED KUWAITI RESISTANCE MEMBER WERE CAPTURED,
HIS ADDRESS ON HIS IDENTIFICATION CARD WAS NOTED; THEN THE ENTIRE
DISTRICT IN WHICH HE LIVED WAS CORDONED OFF AND SUBJECTED TO A HOUSE TO
HOUSE SEARCH. IN SPITE OF SUCH MEASURES, THE KUWAITI RESISTANCE SUCCEEDED IN
TWICE MOVING THE BRITISH NATIONAL TO NEW HIDEOUTS. MOREOVER, THE
RESISTANCE WAS REPUTED TO HAVE DESTROYED AN IRAQI AIRCRAFT WITH A MAN-
PORTABLE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE AT KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. FOR THIS
REASON, WHEN IRAQ DECLARED ALL
WESTERNERS FREE TO LEAVE KUWAIT, SOURCE WAS BUSSED FROM THE AIRPORT TO A
MILITARY AIR BASE FOR HIS EXIT FLIGHT.
8. AVAILABILITY OF FOOD TO LOCAL POPULACE. THROUGHOUT THE
ENTIRE 2 AUG - 9 DEC 90 PERIOD, SOURCE HAD A SPARSE BUT ADEQUATE
SUPPLY OF FOOD. ACCORDING TO THE FRIENDLY KUWAITIS WHO SUPPLIED HIM WITH
FOOD, BREAD WAS THE HARDEST ITEM TO GET; FLOUR DISAPPEARED RIGHT AWAY
AFTER THE INVASION.
9. UTILITIES. THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 2 AUG - 9 DEC 90 PERIOD, SOURCE HAD
RUNNING WATER, ELECTRICITY, AND TELEPHONE SERVICE.
HOWEVER, BOTTLED PROPANE -- ON WHICH THE KUWAITIS RELY FOR COOKING -- WAS
UNAVAILABLE. HAVING BEEN WARNED OF AN OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA,
SOURCE RELIED ON HIS ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF BOTTLED WATER FOR DRINKING. HE
RESERVED TAP WATER FOR WASHING -- UNTIL ABOUT TWO WEEKS FROM
DEPARTURE, WHEN TAP WATER TURNED FILTHY. ALTHOUGH TELEPHONE SERVICE WAS
UNINTERRUPTED, SOURCE WAS WARY OF HIS CONVERSATIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE
WITH HIS BRITISH ACQUAINTANCE, BEING MONITORED; HE HUNG UP
WHENEVER HE HEARD CLICKING NOISES ON THE CIRCUIT.
10. SANITARY CONDITIONS. FROM THE DAY OF THE INVASION UNTIL
ABOUT 3 DEC, THERE WAS NO GARBAGE COLLECTION IN SOURCE'S
NEIGHBORHOOD. FLIES WERE RAMPANT. SOURCE HEARD THAT RATS WERE
BECOMING A PROBLEM, ALTHOUGH HE HIMSELF NEVER SAW ANY. FINALLY,
GARBAGE WAS COLLECTED INTO A SINGLE, LARGE PILE ON THE STREET, DOUSED WITH
GASOLINE, AND IGNITED. THE REMAINS WERE HAULED AWAY BY TRUCK.
COMMENTS: (U) (FIELD COMMENT) -- NONE.
//IPSP: (U) PG 1100; PGW 2650.
//COMSOBJ: (U) 111; 211.
PROJECT: (U) 1500-25.
INSTR: (U) US NO.
PREP: (U) 1 -10188.
ACQ: (U) USA, DAYTON (901228).
DISSEM: (U) FIELD: NONE.
WARNING: (U) [b.2.]
DECL: OADR
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