Location: Mansuriyah, 75km NE of Baghdad
Short Descriptor: Declared storage/deployment site for BW missile warheads
Details:
Iraq's full, final, and complete disclosure (FFCD) states that 10 Al-Hussein warheads (aflatoxin fill) were deployed to this location.
Other Information:
...Al Mansuriyah storage facility: BW munitions have been stored at this site. [1]
...The Al Mansuriyah storage facility contains 20 bunkered storage buildings built into a hillside. [2]
...Al Mansuriyah Storage Facility: This storage facility consists of about 20 bunkered storage buildings built into a hillside. We believe that some of these buildings stored BW agents in the past. We now would expect that any BW munitions would be stored underground at this site. [3]
Key Sources:
[1] GulfLINK, "BW Stored," CIA, June 1991, File: cia_62841_62841_01.txt.
[2] GulfLINK, "Iraqi BW Facilities," CIA, June 1991, File: cia_62845_62845_01.txt.
[3] GulfLINK, "Iraqi BW/CW 1991," CIA, n.d., File: cia_65717_65717_01.txt.
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