Subject: MIDDLE EAST BRIEF

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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JAN 91







SUBJECT:  MIDDLE EAST BRIEF          JANUARY 1991.



CONTENTS



IRAQ-KUWAIT:  SITUATION REPORT







7. IRAQ:  DAMAGE TO CBW FACILITIES







1. IRAQ-KUWAIT:  SITUATION REPORT



IRAQIS LAUNCH SIMULTANEOUS MISSILE ATTACKS



IRAQI FORCES YESTERDAY LAUNCHED MISSILE STRIKES AGAINST SAUDI

ARABIA AND ISRAEL.



X--FOUR MISSILES WERE FIRED FROM LOCATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN

IRAQ--AND NORTHERN KUWAIT TWO AGAINST RIYADH AND TWO AGAINST

DHAHRAN.



X--          ONE MISSILE WAS LAUNCHED

TOWARD TEL AVIV FROM THE AREA OF THE WADI AL JABARIYAH FIXED LAUNCH

COMPLEX IN WESTERN IRAQ.



X--          THREE MISSILES--INCLUDING

THE ONE TARGETTED AT ISRAEL--WERE SHOT DOWN BY PATRIOT BATTERIES; THE

OTHER MISSILES PROBABLY ALSO WERE INTERCEPTED.







7. IRAQ:  DAMAGE TO CBW FACILITIES



COALITION AIR STRIKES HAVE          DAMAGED A NUMBER OF

IRAQ'S CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPON PRODUCTION FACILITIES;







THE          CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACILITY

NEAR SAMARRA          PRODUCTION BUILDINGS

HAVE SUSTAINED          DAMAGE.







TAJI SUSPECT BW

FACILITY IS HEAVILY DAMAGED AND BELIEVED TO BE INOPERABLE







AIRSTRIKES HAVE DESTROYED

BUNKERS CAPABLE OF STORING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS--







THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS FILLING CAPACITY AT

SAMARRA HAS BEEN DESTROYED.







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