SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY AL BASRAH AREA, IRAQ (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 26, 1984
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SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY
AL RASR AREA. IRAQ
26 MARCH 1984
1. SIGNIFICANCE: RELATED MILITARY ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH
IRANIAN AND IRAQI TROOP DISPOSITIONS IN THE AL BASRAH
AREA WAS OBSERVED (SWN)
2. REMARKS: SIGNIFICANT IRANIAN ACTIVITY OBSERVED IN THE AL
BASRAH AREA INCLUDED THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HAWK SITE
IN THE IRANIAN REAR AREA (GRAPHIC 1). IRANIAN FORCES
CONTINUED TO REINFORCE AND RESUPPLY THE NORTHERN MAJNOON
ISLAND AND REAR AREAS EAST OF THE MAJNOON ISLANDS. (SWN)
SIGNIFICANT IRAQI ACTIVITY OBSERVED IN THIS AREA INCLUDED
AN IRAQI AIR STRIKE ON THE NORTHERN MAJNOON ISLAND, A
NEWLY DEPLOYED IRAQI SA-2 SITE, THREE CAUSEWAYS UNDER
CONSTRUCTION WEST OF THE MAJNOON ISLANDS, A NEW HELIPORT
IN THE VICINITY OF ASH SHUWAYYIB, AND A NEWLY IDENTIFIED
FROG-7 BRIGADE NORTHWEST OF AL BASRAH (GRAPHIC 1). (SWN)
IRANIAN AIR DEFENSE WAS STRENGTHENED BY THE CONSTRUCTION
OF A NEW HAWK SITE 12 NM NORTH OF THE EASTERN TERMINUS OF
THE IRANIAN PONTON BRIDGE (GRAPHIC 2). THIS NEW SITE IS
THE FOURTH IRANIAN HAWK SITE (TWO OCCUPIED) IN THE AL
BASRAH AREA. (SWN)
EVIDENCE OF IRAQI AIR STRIKES WAS OBSERVED BY THE
PRESENCE OF NUMEROUS BOMB CRATERS IN THE MARSH NEAR THE
PONTON BRIDGE AND ON THE NORTHERN MAJNOON ISLAND. ONE
IRAQI BLINDER BOMBER WAS OBSERVED IN FLIGHT NEAR THE
SOUTHERN MAJNOON ISLAND MAKING A BOMBING RUN, AND BOMB
EXPLOSIONS WERE OBSERVED NEAR THE CENTER OF THE NORTHEPN
MAJNOON ISLAND (GRAPHIC 3). AIR DEFENSES WERE
STRENGTHENED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW OCCUPIED SA-2
SITE, 6 NM NORTH OF THE CONFLUENCE OF THE TIGRIS AND
EUPHRATES RIVERS AT APPROXIMATELY 31-06-30N 047-26-10E
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(GRAPHIC 4). TIIE IRAQIS WERE CONSTRUCTING THREE NEW
CAUSEWAYS TO CONNECT THE IRAQI MAINLAND TO THE ISLAND.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY WAS EVIDENT ON THE SOUTHERNMOST
CAUSEWAY (GRAPHIC 5). AN IRAQI HELIPORT (1S HELIPADS)
WAS NEWLY CONSTRUCTED NORTHWEST OF AL BASRAH NEAR THE
CONFLUENCE OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS. IT WAS
OCCUPIED BY TWO HIP C AND TWO HIND HELICOPTERS (GRAPHIC 6).
A FROG-7 BRIGADE WAS NEWLY IDENTIFIED NORTH OF AL BASRAH
AND WEST OF THE SHATT AL ARAB (ONE BATTALION NOT ON
GRAPHIC) (GRAPHIC 7). AN ENTIRE IRAQI FROG BRIGADE HAS
NOT BEEN OBSERVED DEPLOYED AT ONE LOCATION SINCE THE
BEGINNING OF THE IRAN/IRAQ WAR. IRAQI AND IRANIAN TPOOP
DISPOSITIONS ARE ILLUSTRATED ON NPIC BRIEFING BOARD
Z-17372-84. (SWN) (PERSIAN GULF SECTION
BE NONE, COORDINATES: NONE (U)
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