111296_cia_93721_93721_01.txt

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SUBJECT: TROOP MOVEMENT NEAR AL BASRAH
NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
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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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