MEMORANDUM: Responses To Iraqi Withdrawal Proposals
Coalition responses to any Iraqi offer to withdraw from Kuwait should be structured to accomplish two immediate objectives:
o Make it difficult for Iraq to fight in the Kuwait Theater of Operations (the KTO as designated. forces lies south ofNJ if it changes Us mind; and
o Reassert Kuwaiti control over the instruments and symbols of power and controluwait as quickly as possible.
The following actions meet these criteria and are verifiable initially through technical means and eventually through on-site Inspection. Many of these responses are directed at the Kuwait Theater of Operations, part of whichraq proper. Demands by. for Iraq to accede to limitations on force deployments in southern Iraq will be particularly difficult for Saddam to accept. Iraqi forces in outhern Iraq wouldreater threat to Kuwait and coalition forces, but-tost of these responses could also be aimed at Kuwait alone rather than the KTO.
IMMEDIATE
-No use of air defense or coastal defense acquisition or fire control radarshe KTO.
-Removal of all Iraqi combat aircraft from air bases in the KTO.
-No combat aircraft overflight of KTO.
-No new construction of defensive positions.
-Disarming of all explosives in Kuwaiti oil fields and facilities.
-Unrestricted coalition reconnaissance flights over Kuwait.
-Free all Kuwaiti prisoners in Iraqi hands.
OURS
-Remove all Iraqi troops from Kuwait City, to be replaced by Kuwaiti or coalition forces. Equipment that cannot be removed should be abandoned in place and may be returned at the discretion of the Government of Kuwait. (This stipulation should apply to all equipment that cannot be removed by the set deadline.)
-Withdraw all Iraqi forces from coastal highway and beach defenses between Kuwait City and Saudi Arabia.
-Allow Kuwaiti or coalition forces to establish traffic control points on coastal highway.
-Remove all surface-to-surface missiles (FROG. SCUD and SILKWORM) from below
-Remove all Iraqi forces from Bubiyan, Warbah and Faylakah Islands.
-Remove all personnel from Burgan oil field complex after disarming any explosives and dismantle pipelines to fire trenches. Admit forces and technical personnel from Kuwaiti or coalition.
-Begin preparation to remove armored and mechanized brigades of the Republican Guards Forces Command (RGFC) from current locations. All armored vehicles moved from revetments.
-Remove all artillery pieces from firing positions and assemble In bivouac areas. Prepare to remove from Kuwait.
-Begin preparation to remove all regular army armored and mechanized brigades from current positions. All armored vehfcles moved from revetments.
-Open air lanes to Kuwait International Airport.
-Remove all surface-to-air missilesoland) froa Kuwait.
-Open sea lanes to Kuwaiti sea ports.
-Allow coalition naval combatants to enter Kuwaiti harbors.
-Return all Kuwaiti vessels captured by Iraq to ports in Kuwait.
-Hove tankers suspected of being used for beach defenses to Umm Qasr or offshore terminal at Hlna al 8akr.
-All Iraqi Naval vessels return to Umm Qasr.
SEjfRET
OURS
-All three Republican Guard armored and mechanized divisions moved north of Units formerly garrisoned north ofmust return to garrison. Those formerly garrisoned south ofmust move to designated areas north of that line.
-All regular army armored and mechanized brigades should prepare for speedy removal from Kuwait.
-Allow Kuwaiti or coalition forces to establish traffic control points on highway between Kuwait City and Kuwait-Iraq border.
-Remove all Iraqi personnel from all other Kuwaiti oil fields after disarming any explosives. Admit forces and technical personnel from Kuwaiti or coalition.
DAYS
-All artillerymm removed from Kuwait.
-Regular array armored and mechanized brigades removed to north ofUnits formerly garrisoned north ofmust return to garrison. Those formerly garrisoned south ofmust move to designated areas north of that line.
-Selected infantry units should move under Kuwaiti or coalition supervision to designated airfields for repatriation to Iraq by air.
-All Infantry units move to north ofand west of This moves Iraqi forces into the northwest quadrant of Kuwait.
AYS
-All infantry units move to bivouacs north ofand west
AYS
-AH infantry units move to bivouacs north ofand west
-Repatriation of all captured Kuwaiti military equipment, including aircraft, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.
-Repatriation of all captured Iraqi civilian aircraft and naval
vessels.
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