IIS officer diary part III and final

Update: earlier I called this a diary of a pakistani cleric, Sammi corrected me, the diary is of an IIS officer at the meetings.

Ray: Third and last article concerning the IIS officer diary ISGP-2003-00014127. PDF
An Iraqi intelligence official designated MS4 tells the Taliban representative. "We are ready to help you in any country and against your enemies”. The following are partial translations and "gists". The paranthesis are the translators.

Translator’s notes:
-This is the third and last translation from the 76 pages diary classified as document ISGP-2003-00014127.
- Most pages on the computer screen cover two pages on the diary. This is why I will be pointing to information as (for example) 73/76 L (for left) or 55/76 R (for right).
-Since Arabic is written from right to left, the page numbers of every report will be in decreasing order.
- It seems that Khaled Abd El Majid’s responsibility was coordinating with the Pakistani and Bengali Islamic Party leaders who used to visit Iraq.
-During all the meetings there is a recurrent theme coming from the Iraqis: We have the same enemy; America. The Islamists also have a recurrent theme: America is also our enemy and Iraq is a Muslim country and we should stand with him.
-Many meetings are taking place with an Iraqi Intelligence official:MS4
- It is worth noting that all during the eighties Saddam never portrayed himself as a Muslim leader. He always wanted to be the Arab leader defending the Arab Nation against Israel and the Arab’s historic enemy: The Persians (Iran).
- In the nineties he saw that riding the Islamic wave would be beneficial.

Partial translations:

73/76 L and 72/76 R: A list of Pakistani Islamic parties leaders coming to Iraq. Names of leaders and their parties. Notes on which party helped organize demonstrations in support of Iraq.

70/76 L: Meeting of MS4 with someone from the Islamic Party. The Iraqi is ready to cooperate on the intelligence and the security level and says: ”We are ready to help you in any country and against your enemies”. The islamist complains that he is facing an international plot and cannot find any country to help him. He says that Iran helped him once (translator’s note: therefore it is an Afghani party) but things changed. Also the Russians called to help but he does not trust them. Both countries only want the war to drag on. This is why he is coming to Baghdad for help. Asked Baghdad to help open a center in Tajikistan and they will bring them (translator’s note: not clear what them refers to) in through Iran or Northern Iraq. Asked for help in printing afghani money in Baghdad or Moscow.
69/76 R: Stinger missiles have a range of 5 kilometers. (translator’s note: there is only  this one sentence related to the meeting. The rest of the page is empty).

69/76L: Meeting of MS4 with 6951
(translator’s note: several points are mentioned which are what 6951 is telling the Iraqis)
- He (6951) inquired about our (Iraqis) relation with Ossama. (translator’s note: the diary is just reporting 6951’s question. This is the first one. The Iraqi answer is not reported. But why would he ask if he did not believe there was a relationship?)
- 6951 proposed to the Taliban to form (in the sense of train) their army with Iraq, Libya and Sudan.
- He met some of them in Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia) and he came to the conclusion that they do not know anything about Foreign Relations.
- The Taliban defense minister is Abdul Razzaq (not clear) and all of them are religious scholars.
- They always proclaim that they are against America.
- He said that he was ready to build relations between the Taliban and Iraq.
68/76: Questions and answers between the Iraqi and 6951. Pakistani and Afghani politics. The Iraqi concludes with:” I suggest that you (Afghani parties) come together because that means power to Islam against the US-Zionist policy.”

65/76 R and 64/76: a report about Pakistani political situation: Nawaz Sheriff, Benazir Bhutto and the Army.

39/76 L: A meeting with an Islamist leader from Bengladesh. He promises support to Iraq. He says:”…let them know that I made Bengladesh a second country to Mr. President and we have 125 millions (people).”

The two meetings of Fadl Ur Rahman were posted before. They covered from page 25/76 to 21/76 and from 20/76 to 17/76 in the diary. The first meeting was with Taha Yassin Ramadan the VP of Saddam and the second was with an intelligence official.
On 27/76 L it is mentioned that Fadl is arriving on 11/27/1999 and he will be hosted in Al Rachid Hotel suite number 526. He will leave on 12/1/1999.
He visited Iraq on April 1999where the ex-director of the intelligence instructed him to mediate between the Taliban and Hekmatyar following the request done by Hekmatyar on 3/19/1999.
26/76 L: A note says: The above mentioned informed us that he is carrying a verbal message from Mullah Omar, prince of Afghanistan to Mr. President Leader may God protect him and guide him.  (translator’s note: In both meetings there is no mention of what that message is. He never met Saddam, only his VP and in the second meeting a senior intelligence official)

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