QUBAYSAH STORAGE A AMMO A SCUD DEPOT
Filename:4723892
SUBJECT: QUBAYSAH STORAGE A AMMO A SCUD DEPOT
PATHFINDER RECORD NUMBER: 23892
GENDATE: 950718
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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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