Subject: DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF ALLIED BOMBING  

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence 

 

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E. THE HQ OF THE PC-3 ELECTRICAL GROUP, WITH TWO 

LABORATORIES FOR COMPUTER AND CONTROL, SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE 

ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR.  MOST OF THE 

EQUIPMENT WHICH REMAINED THERE WAS SAVED. 

 

F. THE PC-3 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GROUP 

       ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WAS DAMAGED, BUT NO MAJOR 

EQUIPMENT WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME. 

 

 

G. THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT BUILDING WAS DAMAGED. 

 

H. THE PC-3 URANIUM-ENRICHMENT BUILDING SUSTAINED LIGHT 

DAMAGE.  IT WAS THE ONLY PC-3 PROJECT BUILDING OF MAJOR 

OPERATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE LEFT AT TUWAITHA.  AT THIS 

FACILITY, U235 ALREADY ENRICHED TO 35 PERCENT WAS BEING 

ENRICHED TO WEAPONS-GRADE LEVEL THE BUILDING HOUSED FIVE  

ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPARATION CELLS 

 

 

5. THE AL-SAFAA URANIUM-ENRICHMENT FACTORY LOCATED NORTH OF 

BAGHDAD AND JUST NORTH OF THE AL-TAJI MILITARY COMPLEX IN 

TARMIYA WAS HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS.  IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH 20 

ELECTROMAGNETIC CELLS LOCATED IN TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS.  

ONE OF THE BUILDINGS WAS HIT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF 

SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT HOUSED INSIDE.  DAMAGE TO THE AL-SAFAA 

OPERATIONS WAS ASSESSED AT 30 TO 50 PERCENT. 

 

ACQ: (JUNE 1991). 

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