[3][4][5] The Khamisiya Ammunition Storage Facility was a site approximately 25 square km (9.65 sq mi) in area and consisted of two sections: one of 88 warehouses; the other of 100 hardened concrete bunkers surrounded by an earth berm and security fencing.
[1] In March 1991, combat engineers and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams of the U.S. Army, conducted a demolition operation.
Computer-generated models based on atmospheric conditions project that clouds of nerve agents would have drifted south and reached allied troops.
[6] Records also show that Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) sensors monitoring the air soon reported traces of nerve agents.
In April 2002, the United States Department of Defense released two reports related to operations at Khamisiyah during the Gulf War.