AL BASRAH/UMM QASR CANAL AL BASRAH AREA, IRAQ (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2012
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• Publication Date: March 27, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

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AL BASRAH/UHM QASR CANAL
AL BASRAH AREA, IRAQ FS-VIN)
Attachment to Z- 17 3 7 6/ 8 4
NPIC/IEG (3/84)
27 MARCH 1984
1. SIGNIFICANCE: THE AL BASRAII/UMM QASR CANAL IS COMPLETE AND
OPERATIONAL. THE COMPLETION OF THIS CANAL PROVIDES IRAQI
NAVAL COMBATANTS AND SMALL MERCHANT SHIPS A PASSAGE BETWEEN
AL BASRAH AND THE PERSIAN GULF. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: THE CANAL EXTENDS APPROXIMATELY 20 NM FROM AL
BA~TO THE KIIAWR (CHANNEL) AL ZUBAYR (GRAPHIC 1) AND HAS
ONE LOCK APPROXIMATELY 6 NM SOUTH OF AL BASRAII (GRAPHIC 1
AND 2). CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CANAL HAS BEEN ONGOING SINCE
MID-1972. (SUN)
THREE POLNOCNY C MEDIUM AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT LANDING SHIPS
(LSM) FORMERLY OBSERVED AT AL BASRAII NAVAL BASE (BE
, WERE AT KHOR AL ZUBAYR PORT F
ACILITY (BE
(ONE ON GRAPHIC
THE PRESENCE OF THE LSM'S AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE
CANAL IS A FURTHER INDICATION THAT IT IS OPERATIONAL. IRAQI
NAVAL COMBATANTS AND PIERSIIIPS HAVE BEEN STRANDED AT AL
BASRAH SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, WHEN THE
SIIATT AL ARAB WATERWAY WAS BLOCKED BY SUNKEN I? MERSH I PS . (SWN )
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KIIOR AL ZUBAYR PORT FACILITY IS AT THE NORTH END OF KHAWR AL
ZUBAYR APPROXIMATELY 26 NM SOUTHEAST OF AL BASRAH. UMM QASR
IS APPROXIMATELY 11 N iOR AL ZUBAYR. (SWN) 25X1
(PERSIAN GULF SECTION
3. BE NONE, COORDINATES NONE (U)
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