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QUBAYSAH STORAGE A AMMO A SCUD DEPOT Filename:4723892 SUBJECT: QUBAYSAH STORAGE A AMMO A SCUD DEPOT PATHFINDER RECORD NUMBER: 23892 GENDATE: 950718 NNNN TEXT: ENVELOPE RATMCIAB YEKDQA 7534 3462054-MIDO--YEKDQX . ZNY MMIDO ZNZ1 ZKZK RR AAZ DE HEADER R 122054Z DEC 90 ZYS [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] QUBAYSAH STORAGE A AMMO A SCUD DEPOT [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] RMK/IRAQ: POSSIBLE CHEMICAL WEAPONS STORAGE AT QUBAYSAH / [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] / /TWO PROBABLE DECONTAMINATION VEHICLES, SIMILAR TO THOSE [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] /AT THE SAMARRA CHEMICAL WARFARE (CW) RESEARCH, PRODUCTION AND /STORAGE FACILITY [ (b)(2) ], HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AT QUBAYSAH /STORAGE FACILITY, POSSIBLY [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] THAT CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE /BEING STORED AT QUBAYSAH. THE TWO PROBABLE DECONTAMINATION /VEHICLES HAVE BEEN PARKED IN FRONT OF THE HIGH-SECURITY SECTION OF /THE GABLE-ROOFED STORAGE AREA AT THE QUBAYSAH STORAGE FACILITY /SINCE JULY. THESE DECONTAMINATION VEHICLES MAY HAVE BEEN PRESENT /[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]. THE SAME TYPE OF DECONTAMINATION VEHICLES /ACCOMPANIED PROBABLE CW WEAPONS CONVOYS DEPARTING SAMARRA DURING /THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, AND ONE [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] OUTSIDE THE S-SHAPED BUNKER /COMPOUND AT TALLIL AIRFIELD [ (b)(2) ], WHERE A PROBABLE CW /WEAPONS CONVOY WAS IDENTIFIED [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] JUNE 1988. THE QUBAYSAH /STORAGE FACILITY IS 120 KM WEST OF BAGHDAD. / [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] /IN AUGUST 1990, FOUR SCUD-B TRANSPORTER-ERECTOR-LAUNCHERS (TEL) /AND A PROBABLE DDA-66 [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] IN FRONT OF THE ARCH-ROOFED /STORAGE AREA OF QUBAYSAH AND POSSIBLE SCUD WARHEAD CANISTERS [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] IN THE LOW-SECURITY SECTION OF THE GABLE-ROOFED STORAGE AREA /([ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]). STORAGE /AREA AT QUBAYSAH SUGGESTS THAT THIS AREA CONTAINS CW MUNITIONS, AS /SCUD TEL, ASSOCIATED PROPELLANT VEHICLES AND MISSILE WARHEAD /CANISTERS HAVE NOT BEEN [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] IN THIS HIGH-SECURITY SECTION. / / /ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE CW STORAGE [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] /AUGUST WHEN TWO STAKE-BED TRUCKS LOADED WITH POSSIBLE CW MUNITIONS /WERE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE HIGH-SECURITY SECTION OF THE QUBAYSAH /FACILITY. THESE TRUCKS WERE LOADED IN A MANNER SIMILAR TO THE /TRUCKS [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] IN CONVOYS LEAVING SAMARRA IN 1988. [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] PROBABLE SHIPPING CONTAINERS SIMILAR TO THOSE FOUND AT /CW PRODUCTION FACLITIES IN IRAQ HAVE BEEN [ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ] IN OPEN STORAGE /INSIDE THE HIGH-SECURITY SECTION AT QUBAYSAH FACILITY. / / -- [ (b)(6) ] / / /([ (b)(2) ]) / /[ (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4) ]
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