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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
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ENVELOPE RATMCIAB YEKDQA 7534 3462054-MIDO--YEKDQX
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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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