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SERIAL:     IIR 2 340 0365 91.
COUNTRY:    IRAQ (IZ).
SUBJECT:      IIR 2 340 0365 91/SPECIAL MUNITIONS
WARNING:    THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE.  
-                       DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DOI:       880000.
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[b.1. sec. 1.5.c.]
SUMMARY:                  IRAQ HAD SPECIAL ARTILLERY MUNITIONS
CALLED PRESSURE BOMBS AND GAS BOMBS WHICH EXPLODED IN LARGE
FIREBALLS ON IMPACT.  CHEMICAL MUNITIONS WERE STORED AT MUTHEYNA
AIRFIELD.  A DECON AIRCRAFT HANGAR WAS ALSO LOCATED AT AL MUTHEYNA.
TEXT:  1.                 PRESSURE BOMB--IRAQ HAD A SPECIAL
ARTILLERY MUNITION CALLED A PRESSURE BOMB.  SOURCE SAW THE PRESSURE
BOMBS USED IN 1981.  THE PRESSURE BOMBS WERE DELIVERED BY 175MM
ARTILLERY.  THE ARTILLERY WAS LOCATED IN KOHINA, IZ //CNA//.  THE
TARGET AREA WAS LOCATED IN KOLINA, IZ //CNA//.  [b.1. sec. 1.5.c.]
                                      (SOURCE CMT--THE PRESSURE
BOMB WAS USED AGAINST BUILDINGS AND UPON IMPACT APPEARED LIKE A GAS
CAN HAD EXPLODED, EXCEPT THE EXPLOSION WAS COMSIDERABLY LARGER.  A
LARGE FIREBALL MOVED UPWARD AND OUTWARD, SWIRLING AROUND TWICE.
THERE WAS ALSO A LOUD NOISE.)
2.                FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVES--SOURCE HEARD THAT A GAS OR
FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVE BOMB WAS USED BY THE IRAQIS.  THE BOMB CONTAINED
TWO BREAKASLE CONTAINERS.  EACH CONTAINER HELD A DIFFERENT U/I
INGREDIENT.  THE BOMB HAD TO HIT ITS TARGET WITH ENOUGH IMPACT TQ
BREAK THE TWO INTERNAL CONTAINERS AND MIX THE INGREDIENTS.  AFTER
THE TWO INGREDIENTS MIXEO AND WERE DETONATED, A HUGE FIREBALL
RESULTED.
3.                 CHEMICAL MUNITIONS--SOURCE WAS TOLD BY 
 [b.1. sec. 1.5.c., b.6.]   THAT U/I CHEMICAL MUNITIONS WERE STORED
AT THE UNDERGROUND FACILITIES AT MUTHENAY AIRFIELD, IZ //CNA//.
(SOURCE CMT--THE MUTHEYNA AIRFIELD WAS DESTROYED DURING THE EARLY
STAGES OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR BUT HAS BEEN REBUILT.  UNDERGROUNDÔ
OF THE UNDERGROUND FACILITIES CAN BE OBSERVED ABOVE GROUND.)  THE
AIRPLANES THAT CARRY THE CHEMICALS WERE ALSO STATIONED AT MUTHEYNA
AIRFIELD.  SOURCE DID NOT KNOW IF THE CHEMICALS WERE DELIVERED AS A
SPRAY FROM THE AIRPLANES OR AS A BOMB.
4.                 SPECIAL DECON HANGER--[b.1. sec. 1.5.c., b.6.]
STATED THERE WAS A SPECIAL DECON HANGER AT MUTHEYNA.  THE PLANES
WERE WASHED DOWN AFTER RETURNING FROM A MISSION IN THIS HANGER AT
THE AIRFIELD.
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