Ray Robison: Pointing out the obvious to the oblivious

More support to the claim that Saddam conducted nuclear tests

Jveritas has provided a new translation at the Free Republic under the comments to this article. My previous post describes a secret Iraqi memo. Review that first and this will be in context.

In document BIAP-2003-004555 I found this interesting secret and immediate letter dated February 24 2001 from the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization to the Iraqi Heath Ministry asking to provide them with sample for each case of cancer in the Southern region and Baghdad so they can test the concentration of “Depleted Uranium” in the organs. It was clear that the Iraqi wanted to use this to promote a big lie that the Iraqi people were exposed to Depleted Uranium during the first Gulf war in 1991 and this was due to Coalition Forces bombing. The real fact that these people had leukemia and other type of cancer because of the nuclear waste and nuclear experimentations that Saddam regime was doing for many years.
Beginning of the translation of Page 157

Republic of Iraq

Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization

Number 15/246

Date: 24/2/2001

Secret and Immediate

Health Ministry/ Office of the Minister

Subject: Use of Depleted Uranium

Indicating to the letter of the Presidential Secretariat numbered aa’/4165 on 3/2/2001 please provide us with sample for each Cancer case that come to the hospital in the Southern Region and the capital Baghdad for the purpose of examining the concentration of Uranium in the affected organs or blood attached with information about the patient clarifying all the information for purposes of documentation and providing the statistical analysis and estimate the health risk for the pollution with Depleted Uranium, and prepare what is required from scientific facts and statistics to show the negative impacts and with what collate with the direction of the respected Presidential Secretariat to support the international campaign against the use the of Depleted Uranium

Signature…

Fadel Muslim Abed Al Janabi

Chairman of the Atomic Energy Organization

24/2/2001

Ray: What this document verifies is that at the same time of the Gwynne Roberts' article mentioned in the previous post, and the IIS document discussing mass graves to "confirm" the presence of radiation, the Ministry of health was ordered to catalog cases of cancer or death suspected to be caused by radiation exposure.

This means that Iraq fully expected and believed these people had been exposed to a high level of radiation. That is now indisputable  (I am going to modify this to highly probable).

So the question is now, could DU have caused a mass casualty event like this? The answer, despite leftist propaganda, is no way.

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Features/DU/finalreport.pdf

It is an IAEA on site environmental inspection of locations in Kosovo where DU was used. This is a serious scientific study. Under findings, it says:

"The corresponding radiological and chemical risks from all points of view are consequently insignificant"

The radiation in this case is not from DU.

So now you have to ask "what caused this radiation exposure". If you have made the correct conclusion that it is not from depleted uranium then it becomes clear. This is now starting to look like strong evidence that this nuclear test did in fact happen (something that frankly shocks me).

I believe that what we are seeing is the unraveling of a case in which Saddam knew that a story concerning mass graves contaminated with radiation was about to come out and decided to blame it on DU with the help of leftists. It fits.

I have had readers point out some counter arguments.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unmovic/2001/0611nuc.htm

"Such an explosion he said, in an article for the London-based think tank, the Verification, Training and Information Center, would have been easily detectable by international or by regional monitoring in Iran, Israel or Jordan, which keep records of earthquakes.

None of them reported any seismic events of the magnitude necessary for a nuclear test in the region around Lake Rezazza, Wallace said."

Sounds case closed doesn't it? Until I found this:

http://www.psigate.ac.uk/spotlight/issue9/earth.html

"Wallace and his colleagues examined the global earthquake catalogues produced by the International Seismic Center and the US Geological Survey and say they reveal no seismic disturbances at all in Iraq that day. Moreover, they say there has been no seismicity within 50 km of the reported test site for the years 1980 to 1999. One problem with the assertion that no weapons testing took place, they point out, is that the detection threshold for these global catalogues was just magnitude 4.0 in 1989 so a smaller magnitude event may have not been picked up by the sensors."

Leone said it was 2.7 on the surface. 

The article also said this:

"The chief U.N. arms inspector and experts at a London think tank have concluded there was no evidence Iraq had carried out a successful nuclear test in 1989, as alleged in news reports earlier this year.
Hans Blix, the executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, said he reported to the U.N. Security Council last week "the information is totally wrong" that Iraq conducted a nuclear test beneath Lake Rezazza, southwest of Baghdad on Sept. 19, 1989, before the Gulf War.

He told reporters his department and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had evidence in its files, from overhead flights and previous ground inspections "there had been no nuclear tests" nor a tunnel under the lake. "

But now read this from a 2003 UK article posted just the day before yesterday on this site:

"Although Dr Hans Blix, the head of the UN inspections teams, was made aware of the discovery last week, he failed to mention it during talks with Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, and Jacques Chirac the French president.

British officials are particularly concerned that Mr Blix appears to be playing down the significance of last week's breakthroughs.

He indicated that he did not feel the discovery of the chemical warheads was an issue that needed to be reported to the Security Council."

Really? The head of the inspections didn't feel that the discovery of 122mm CW rockets was important enough to report?

Another counter argument in a Duelfer report from 2002 noted that Saddam would have changed his behavior if he had a nuclear bomb. The nuclear test is claimed to have occurred in late 1989. So what was Saddam up to after the test? Oh yea, he invaded a small sovereign nation against the worlds collective judgment in 1990. Almost no nation on earth supported the invasion of Kuwait. This was not the Iran war where most nations hated Iran and preferred Iraq. This was the destruction of a small friendly Arab nation. If I remember correctly, the State Department claimed that when U.S. detected troop movement to the border State never thought Saddam was actually going to do it. They didn't think it matched his behavior to date. Yet Saddam felt pretty comfortable doing it. No change in behavior? You can be the judge.

Fitting the pieces together

In February 2001, the Sunday Times ran the article Was this Saddam’s Bomb by Gwynne Roberts. I couldn't find the original but it is also on Globalsecurity.org .

I only recently read this article and found it interesting but very hard to believe. One of the newly released documents CMPC-2003-015757  contains the Roberts article in English. This is the first time I have seen it. I did some research and found no serious academic or professional rebuttals other than people who also found it hard to believe. However, it seems that supporting evidence has been right in front of us for a few weeks now.

The article describes a conversation with a man called “Leone” who claimed to be a nuclear scientist working in Iraq. He approached Gwynne with tales of hidden nuclear programs, hidden nuclear weapons and most surprisingly a claim of a successful nuclear test performed in the Rezzaza Lake area of southern Iraq in 1989.

Leone claimed that the test was conducted underground in a massive tunnel. He said the tunnel required workers who were sacrificed for the secrecy of the project.

The tunnel and the entrance were huge and the manpower needed to block it up massive. Leone had told me that thousands of political prisoners worked on the tunnel after a presidential amnesty.
"They were well fed and lived in comfortable caravans. In return, they worked hard. But none of them came out of it alive," he said. "Many were contaminated with radioactive waste. Friends working for Iraqi security who were guarding them said they were buried in caves nearby. The Iraqi regime hoped the secret of the Rezzaza lake test would die with them.
"Hussein Kamel gave the order to kill these people . . . I was disgusted by it and  it's one of the major reasons I fled."
This grotesque story was corroborated by Imad. He said he was aware that political prisoners who worked on the Rezzaza tunnel were massacred by Iraqi security guards to conceal an unspecified secret military project. He did not know this was the nuclear test site.

I am not sure how these workers would have been contaminated if this test occurred as stated by Leone. But I don’t think it is beyond the bounds of reason that even though the tunnel was plugged deep inside, radiation could have penetrated the 50 meter concrete plug Leone described. Then when the workers went down into the tunnel to completely fill it in they were exposed to radiation.
It also seems like the deaths of hundreds of prisoners caused by radiation would certainly be hard to conceal, even in Iraq. But putting this story together with a newly released document does present an intriguing clue.

A few weeks ago a man named Joseph or screen name “Jveritas” started putting original translations on the Free Republic website. One of them was interesting but did not receive a lot of attention: ISGQ-2004-00224003

In this Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7 2001, there was a discussion in upper echelon of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves as the results massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm Operation.
Beginning of the Partial Translation
The Republic of Iraq
The Intelligence Apparatus
Date: 7/2/2001
No 1687
In the Name of God the Merciful the Most Compassionate
Secret
To the respectful Mr. Director of the Fourth Directory
Your letter secret and immediate numbered B 264 on 2/4/2001
1. No information is available to us about the Mass Graves in the Southern Region.
2.We see to achieve the observation the following matters:
A. Inspect the graves to confirm the existence of Nuclear Radiations.
B. Were they buried alive or their death was by suffocation.
C. Are they military personnel or civilians.
D. Are there tombstones that carry the names of the martyrs
E. Identify accurate marks and proofs of the graves and the possibility to reach it quickly and identify it.
3. We do not agree that the declaration about it through a direct Iraqi media in the first stage at least and not to cause public and party reaction so that the subject will take as a priority an international interest, and we should work on the following direction during this stage:
A. Leak the news through reliable sources.. News agencies or Satellite stations.. and that there is confusion, and indications from the members of the Coalition forces about the existence of mass graves civilians and military personnel in the South of Iraq.
B. The attempt to search for soldiers from the Coalition forces in a serious way to mention these truth through the agencies.

This document is describing a mass grave filled with people who are suspected of suffering radiation exposure. The IIS intends to argue the bodies have been there since 1991.

So let’s put this in context. Leone tells a story in 1998 about a nuclear test in 1989. In February of 2001, the IIS is talking about a mass grave site that must have been there for many years. Why are they talking about it now (2001)? The U.N. was not in Iraq at that time. And it happens to be the same month that Gwynne Roberts takes this story public. Did the IIS find out about the article and begin planning the media manipulation to cover up a nuclear test? Or, this article may not have been the first time Roberts wrote about the graves. Perhaps there was an earlier work I couldn’t find and that’s why the IIS was concerned. Either way, the IIS seems to be reacting to his story. But it seems like the IIS is exploring ways to leak the news of the radioactive graves so it can be managed before the claim is made by another source, in other words, spin control.

In my research I could find no other triggering event for this discussion by the IIS like an actual discovery of mass graves by an external source.

The IIS seems to expect radiation to be present when they wrote in this memo “confirm” the presence of radiation.

The location matches, both describe the graves in Southern Iraq.

So the IIS document matches the story of Leone in location, radiation exposure, mass graves, and close enough for the timing as far as we can infer from the document.

And one more thing. Leone described a Group Four responsible for nuclear testing:

"They thought they had stopped the Iraqis from building the bomb, but they overlooked the military organization codenamed Group Four. This department is a comprehensive section that was involved in assembling the bomb from the beginning to the end. It was also involved in developing launching systems, missile programmes, preparing uranium, purchasing it on the black market, smuggling it back into Iraq."

Leone told me that Group Four successfully developed a gun-type device at the nuclear weaponisation centre at al-Atheer. Unscom, the UN inspectorate, was aware that the Iraqis were working on an implosion-type nuclear device there, but knew nothing about Group Four. All evidence of its existence had been removed before they arrived in Iraq, Leone said.

Now look at the IIS memo again. It is addressed to "the respectful Mr. Director of the Fourth Directory".

There is a Directorate 4 described on the FAS website :

Political Bureau The Political Bureau is probably the most important branch of the Mukhabarat. It includes a number of Directorates.
Directorate 4. Secret Service

The Secret Service Directorate is located inside the headquarters complex of the Mukhabarat. Its activities take place both in Iraq and abroad, with agents of D4 infiltrated into Iraqi Government departments, the Baath Party, associations, unions and organisations, Iraqi embassies and the opposition. In addition, the Secret Service receives intelligence from the Al Hadi Project, responsible for SIGINT. The Directorate includes a number of offices specialising in the collection against a specific country or region, including offices for Southern Asia, Turkey, Iran, America (North and South), Europe, Arab states, Africa and the former Soviet Union. D4 works in co-ordination with D3, D5, D9, D12, D14, D18. The current Director of D4 is Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Al Qurtan, and the Assistant Director of D4 is Brig. Mohammed Yasin Al Shammari, from Mosul.

So this document could be the IIS writing the Secret Service organization that would be concerned with the article, or it could be to the secret nuclear development group Leone describes or perhaps they are one and the same.

The IIS document can be viewed in two ways. Some might read it and think it is also an honest response to a potential international incident and how to deal with the rumor. I do not agree with that view. The document seems to confirm that the IIS believes the graves are there:

1. No information is available to us about the Mass Graves in the Southern Region.

One would expect that if the IIS knew the story to be false, they would quantify the statement with terms like "alleged" or "unlikely". It seems like they know the graves are there already. They might not know the exact location, but they know they exist in the area. Another possibility is that this statement means "no more information about the article concerning the mass graves is available". That would actually fit well with the rest of the document since the rest of the document sure seems to indicate the graves are known to be there.

Now look at the "observations". None of those actually say "confirm the graves exist" or something similar. If they weren't sure they existed or believed they didn't exist, that should be the first point.

And it seems kind of like putting the cart before the horse to say how the story should be leaked if they haven't confirmed the graves are there. And if they are not there, why leak the story at all? Just say it is not true. The IIS response seems like they expect graves to be found.

The statement "The attempt to search for soldiers from the Coalition forces in a serious way to mention these truth through the agencies" is a little hard to comprehend in translation. Unless you look at the document from this perspective:

The Secret Service has learned this mass grave is about to be reported. They send a request for information to the IIS to find out what is to be said in the article specific to the graves. The IIS can't find out what the article will say specifically. They come up with a cover story just in case. The mass grave is not a secret grave, but it is a known mass grave from the Gulf War. They want to ensure the bodies are a mix of civilians and military. If the atrocity was committed by the U.S. during war, there would be military killed in the fighting. If they died of suffocation, then they have a reasonable alternative to radiation exposure. If the grave site gets marked with tombstones, then it is not a secret grave but a known cemetary of martyrs of the Gulf War.

In short, this document appears to be a plan to turn a secret mass grave into a known cemetary of martyrs and provide all the necessary details to make that story work. Remove the mystery, remove the interest, old news. I believe it is a cover up, not an investigation. The last line indicates how the grave site will be revealed. Iraq will take the reporters out in a generous attempt to show compassion for its enemy the U.S. by searching for missing coalition soldiers (Spiker) and stumble upon this grave. Then when the story comes out about the secret graves, the reporters can say "no, we have seen the graves and it is not a secret, it is a cemetary from the war". It is camouflage.

Unless this document can be shown as inauthentic it may be the first physical evidence to back up Leone’s story and Gwynne Roberts' article other than the satellite images in the article.

IIS doc lists plan to train Arab Fedayeen

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Document: Iraqi Intelligence To Train Arab Feedayeen Terrorists In the Year 2000 (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO Iraq Pre-war documents ^ | April 18 2006 | jveritas

Posted on 04/18/2006 7:35:16 PM PDT by jveritas

Earlier we have seen the translation of document ISGP-2003-00028868 (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600367/posts ) where it talks about Training Non Iraqi Foreign Arab Terrorists in February 2003 to help the Iraqis in their war against the coalition forces. Some may have dismissed this document by saying that the Iraqis wanted every possible help on the eve of the war, and thus they argued that there was no connection between Saddam and terrorists. However now comes this Iraqi Intelligence document CMPC-2003-005935 that is dated November 22 1999 and it talks about the plan for the year 2000 and that includes the Training of Arab Feedayeens which mean training non Iraqi Foreign Arab Terrorists. Who are those Feedayeen Foreign Arab Terrorists? Are they Al Qaeda, Hamas, etc…? This document is another proof of Saddam great connection to Terrorism and dated back to the year 1999-2000, a long rooted connection to terrorism. Saddam Regime is a TERRORIST REGIME and we had all the rights to remove him after 9/11/2001.

 

Beginning of the translation of page 2 of document CMPC-2003-005935

In the Name of God the Most Merciful the Most Compassionate

The Presidency of the Republic

The Intelligence Apparatus

Mr: The Respected Director

Subject: Projects of a Plan

Below are projects of the plan for the year 2000 and according to the budget suggested for it in the spending budget of the year 2000 and as follow:

1. Prepare an armored brief case to protect the VIPs 180 days.

2. Study on the Epoxy used currently in preparing the IEDs and the possibility of finding another type that will not affect the explosive.

3. Studies and researches of the materials that increase the intensity of the explosive.

4. Prepare theoretical and applied lessons on the popular explosives 120 days.

5. Training of the Arab Feedayeens- within the plan of the year 2000.

Establish tournaments specialized in the explosives 30 days

Please review and your command with regards

Signature…

Khaled Ibrahim Ismail

Senior Chemist

22/11/99

ray: they are probably talking about this State Department

 

Hoekstra speaks out on the Iraq docs

The Detroit News via The Free Republic (a link in the comments)

Putting Iraqi documents online improves postwar intelligence

U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra /

T hree years after the war in Iraq began, there is so much information about prewar Iraq that people have yet to see. The Iraqi Survey Group provided some answers, but it left open as many questions.

Sitting deep within a warehouse in Qatar are millions of documents that may shed some light on the issue.

Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte recently delivered meaningful news when he agreed to initiate a process that would declassify the 48,000 boxes of documents and hundreds of hours of taped conversations with Saddam Hussein and his key advisers.

Documents that I have personally reviewed reveal notes about Kuwaiti prisoners of war used as human shields in 2003 and missiles and chemical and biological weapons buried 40 feet below ground. They are not definitive. However, they are enough to raise eyebrows.

I can only speculate on exactly what the rest of the nearly 2 million documents will contain -- perhaps very little new information but potentially a very great amount. The American public should have access to it now.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has indicated that he will post the information on the Internet so the public, the press and academics can read, study and understand it.

The approach carries with it risks, but such risks are minimal. It will enable us to better understand information such as Saddam's links to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and violence against the Iraqi people.

This is important because more than three years after launching Operation Iraqi Freedom, key people have yet to be interviewed, suspicious sites have not been visited and millions of documents and tapes have not been thoroughly reviewed, translated and analyzed.

There are those outside the intelligence community who have had access to material about prewar Iraq and who have made new discoveries. However, much of it has never been shared with the public, and a systematic analysis has not yet been completed.

Recently a former member of a United Nations inspection team released 12 hours of recordings of conversations between Saddam and his top lieutenants. It was not a smoking gun, but the tapes showed information on Saddam's intent to conceal his programs.

Such material requires the entrepreneurial spirit of academia and others to help us to better understand it. It needs to be posted online so we can unleash the power of the World Wide Web and shine a spotlight on it.

The proposed approach will be a transparent process rather than one mired in secrecy. It will allow us to leverage the Internet to enable a mass examination as opposed to limiting it to a few exclusive elites. What would have once taken years and decades may now be done in real time.

We now only have a pixilated snapshot of Saddam Hussein's regime prior to the war. As more of the information is posted online, we will begin to bring into focus the more complete picture of prewar Iraq that has thus far eluded us.

U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Holland, is the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Continued look at IIS memos concerning foreign influence

CMPC-2003-000331.pdf

Translator’s notes:
- Document CMPC-2003-000331 is a collection of Iraqi Intelligence Service memos dealing with instructions and recommendations to the different directorates.
- The document includes 239 pages on the computer screen.
- The dates on the different memos range from 1998 to 2001.
- The IIS activity covers many countries in the Middle East and their contacts reach the US, Canada, Europe and Russia.
- This document shows Iraq’s efforts to send agents into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait along with recruitment of foreign nationals.
- The areas covered by the IIS are divided into “Internationals”: First, second, third and fourth. The fourth International covers Europe and the US.
- The following is a complete translation of a memo on page 24/239.
- This report is handwritten.

Translation:

Republic of Iraq
Office of the Presidency
Intelligence Service   Top secret and Urgent  2-5-2000

  Mr. M. M 714
  Re your memo 2467 on 30-4-2000

1) Your memo’s instructions were coupled with the directives of Mr. Director General concerning the plans of the different directives of our “International” for the year 2000. We have focused our actions towards Saudi Arabia and Kuwait because those 2 countries are particular. According to our memo 12/3/4/23 dated 19-1-2000 we have instructed our operating stations in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Viet Nam, China, Tokyo, Islamabad and new Delhi to look for new and trusted sources from Far East Asian nationals and convince them to work inside Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in addition to choosing some of our sources working in the Arab area to push them to work inside Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.( translator’s notes: Millions of Far East Asian nationals work in the Gulf countries)
2) Our stations were instructed to invest in the Iraqis working in their fields (translator’s notes: probably Iraqis working abroad) in a way which benefits our scope of work. This follows the directives of Mr. the President leader may God protect him and guide him in this matter. The number of Iraqis with skills which were contacted in 1999 numbered 44.

Please review……Respects.

Translator’s note:
- Most intelligence reports are hand written on official memos. Some are handwritten on regular paper. Page 80/239 is interesting. It is a printed report, about a Lebanese, on an official paper. Apparently someone added a note saying:”In the future those memos should be handwritten and I think that there are directives from the presidency about this matter”. The word “Re’assa” in Arabic means presidency so this directive could be coming straight from the presidency of the country (Saddam) or some highly placed official (presidency of an important agency).

    

IIS document details foreign contacts and influence

CMPC-2003-000331.pdf

Translator’s notes:
- Document CMPC-2003-000331 is a collection of Iraqi Intelligence Service memos dealing with instructions and recommendations to the different directorates.
- The document includes 239 pages on the computer screen.
- The dates on the different memos range from 1998 to 2001.
- The IIS activity covers many countries in the Middle East and their contacts reach the US, Canada, Europe and Russia.
- Other documents contain a paragraph mentioning that Iraq is buying off opposition parties in Russia.
- In this first post I will translate parts of a document giving guidelines for work and assessing the progress of contact recruitments in Europe and the US.
- In a later post a document will show Iraq’s efforts to send agents into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
- The areas covered by the IIS are divided into “Internationals”: First, second, third and fourth. The fourth International covers Europe and the US.
- A term which would be literally translated as “constructed work” is used to describe the modus operandi of the intelligence network.
- The following translations and gist are from a report describing the situation in the Fourth International.
- This report is handwritten. It covers from page 81/239 to 87/239.
- Before you start reading ask yourself: Are so called “Peace Activists” considered as non governmental organizations? If your answer is yes enjoy the read.

Translation:

                    Fourth International

1)    The method of “constructed work” will be adopted in the field of the Fourth International.
a.    Western Europe:
1.    The “constructed work” method will be used in Great Britain through our sources in Ireland and Spain. (2 cases) (translator’s notes: A case is a source)
2.    We have contacted one of our friends in Sweden to collect information about the USA and Holland. (1 case)
3.    Use one of the operating sources in Greece to move into the “American field” (translator’s note: literal translation of the Arab words, he is referring to the USA) to get to know the American intentions.

b.    The two Americas:
A number of sources operating in Cuba, Mexico and Canada were recruited and sent to work in the USA (3 cases)

c.    Eastern Europe:
                  1. A Russian was recruited to work on both Israel and Iran (1 case).
                  2. A Croatian was sent to work on Slovenia (1 case).
                  3. We proceeded to recruit several different nationalities to Romania                                                (3 cases).
d.    Asia and non-Arab Africa:
We proceeded to recruit several different nationalities for Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Gulf to work according to “constructed work”. (11 cases).
e.    Scientific Intelligence section:
Several sources from different nationalities were sent to some scientific institutions, the UN and the Special Committee to acquire advanced scientific and technical information and also to transfer technology to Iraq (10 cases)

Gist:  Then follow several instructions for recruiting and the report discusses some of the problems being faced and the intent to start “illegal stations” (probably undercover stations). The potential of using the Iraqi expatriate population is also discussed. The sixth annual expatriate conference was used to renew the contacts. Iraqi businessmen are also mentioned as potential technology transfer factors.

Translation of page 87/239
17. The work was as follows:
a. The Fourth International has connections and friends in most of its countries that are “moved” in the required directions to continuously influence the decision makers in the target countries.    In many of our operating areas this effort bared fruit in letting the Iraqi cause be known, to affect the domestic public opinion and the political decisions of those countries.
c. In some countries action was taken with some non governmental organizations and through them on some parliament members and government officials to let them voice their opposition to the Iraqi embargo, as happened lately in the “American field” (Translator’s note: USA)

On page 107/239 an excerpt from a report (12-16-1999) of a meeting between the Director of Intelligence with the Fourth International staff:
3. Establish contact with the Islamic Center in London and the (Shiite) Najafi center in Syria.
4. The USA section should focus on people with influence to strengthen the relations with them because most of the existing relations are of the business type.

On page 207/239 is a part of a report:
Translation
3. The section’s needs for research with M10:
The section coordinated with M10 to identify the nature of the research which is beneficial to the concerned sections. Among them is a report about the help provided by Iraq to the Russian parties of opposition through the oil “shares” (coupons) and the extent of their influence on the making of the Russian political decision regarding the lifting of the sanctions on Iraq. He also requested reports about the presidential elections in Poland and Hungary, and the intelligence services in Poland and Hungary to strengthen our existing information.

END

Ray: M10 is described in a CIA report :

M10, Directorate of Studies and Research

M10, also referred to as the “analytic directorate,” was responsible for seeking, compiling, translating, and publishing open source materials from foreign governments, agencies, and organizations. Researchers investigated political, economical, social, international, and military topics and in-house linguists made translations. The director of M10 was Anmar Latif Nusayyif Jasim Al Dulaymi.

Also, see Find Law for the indictment of Susan Lindauer for working with IIS agents.

You've got to be kidding me! I had assumed this traitor was in jail. I searched for an update and found this. This went way under the radar Feb, 2006.

Seattle Weekly

Almost as instantly as she hit the global news cycle as a reputed U.S. traitor and alleged spy for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, former Seattle newspaper journalist Susan Lindauer dropped off the radar. Once the headlines faded in 2004, the public might have assumed she was convicted and sent to prison. But for the moment, Susan Lindauer's strange story remains incomplete. She is confined to a federal mental facility in Texas, perhaps never to get her day in court, according to friends, officials, and public records. Mostly unnoticed, a New York federal judge has found her incompetent to stand trial and ordered further evaluation. She is being held past her scheduled release date, which had been sometime early this month, and, she tells friends, might be forcibly medicated as part of her treatment.

An ex–Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and former U.S. Senate and House aide, Lindauer, 43, was charged in March 2004 with conspiring to act as a spy and being an unregistered Iraqi agent.

Incompetent to stand trial? The woman met with IIS agents repeatedly! She worked as a congressional staffer! What is going on here?

This needs to be scrutinized by the likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, or Rush Limbaugh.

And this is new from the Seattle Weekly article:

In a letter written to her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, two months after Sept. 11, 2001, Lindauer made no secret about her activism or her emotional mission to aid Iraqi citizens. The letter, a copy of which she gave to basement tenant Fields, is apparently one of at least two she sent or gave to Card in 2001 and 2003. The undisclosed second letter, mentioned in the indictment, is being used to prosecute her. In the first letter, written Dec. 2, 2001, Lindauer indicates she was working back channels of government and meeting with officials at the Iraqi embassy, which prosecutors say she in fact did. She wrote Card about conversations with Iraqi diplomats and extended an olive branch on behalf of Hussein's government—in hopes, she said, of getting U.S. economic sanctions lifted against Baghdad. "I am truly praying, Andy," she stated, "that this correspondence will trigger some sort of response from you, so that this ugly quagmire in Iraq can begin to heal. Iraq is hoping for a reply through formal channels, but I would be willing to carry any response as well." After his relative's arrest, Card would not say whether he might have sparked an investigation of the sometimes-journalist by turning over that or the other letter to the FBI. The FBI would say only that Card was interviewed as part of the probe.

So this clearly demonstrates the IIS managed to recruit a person with direct ties to the Bush Administration which it appears turned her over to DOJ.

More Russian military support to Iraq

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Pentagon/FMSO website Iraqp Pre-war documents ^ | April 14 2006 | jveritas

Posted on 04/14/2006 11:21:28 AM PDT by jveritas

This is another document CMPC-2003-002611 that shows Russian deep involvement with Saddam Regime and this time it is a letter dated November 23 2002 from a Russian AEROGLOB Company to an Iraqi firm (Iraqi government cover firm) regarding where to deposit the money for Miltary Equipments pertaining to Russian aircraft Mig 29 and Sokhoy. Other pages in the documents ar eltter between the Iraqi Armos Company and the Al Rafidayn bank regarding the deposits for the Russian company.

Beginning of the translation of page 8 of document document CMPC-2003-002611

anonymous Iraqi provides details of Russian and Syrian assistance

Ray: Sammi provides a partial translation of a notebook that appears to be from an Iraqi connected with the former SSO. The Center for Non-Proliferation Studies describes the SSO:

"The key unit in the deployment of such weapons is Al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security Organization, referred to as the SSO), which was created during the Iran-Iraq War to serve as a super-secret organization and emerged as the most powerful agency in the security apparatus.  It emerged from within al-Amn al-'Amm in 1982 to provide bodyguards to the President after a failed assassination attempt on Saddam.[1]  There are an estimated 5,000 members[2] in this organization mostly from Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.[3]"

If authentic, this document helps to establish the role that Syria played with Iraq as an arms provider. A lot of people may not realize this but Syria provided Iraq with many conventional munitions before the Gulf War and after. It is a little easier to accept the "Mission Impossible" sounding plot that Saddam moved remaining WMD to Syria if you realize they were sneaking weapons across the border all the time anyway.

Translator’s notes:

- Document CMPC-2003-000878 is a note book made of 60 pages.
- It is handwritten.
- The FMSO website describes it as information on SSO (Special Security Organization) ISS (Iraqi Secret Service) and assistant to “Chemical Ali”
-Whoever wrote it was close to the ruling circle and could have been an assistant to someone.
-In many pages he is critical of the clan of Saddam and the many people around him who benefited from their positions.
- Like so many documents it includes some pages of basic physics, chemistry, computer science or electricity.
- The notes are written after the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.
-Pages 53-54-55 are hand written in English and it looks as if he wanted to give this information to an American officer as an anonymous source. Apparently he changed his mind because the pages are still in the note book.

Page 34/60
Body armor from Russia:
They were ordered following a request from the Special Republican Guards (13,000) protective vests from Russia. They were delivered to the headquarters of Qusai Saddam Hussein, in total, eight days before the start of the war. Three Russian experts came along. The deal was funded by one of the rich people of Al Kut (180 Kms South of Bagdad). Each one was bought for $250 and sold to Qusai Saddam Hussain for $600 and they were introduced through Syria after being packaged with Swedish made jackets in an effort to not embarrass Syria and fool the US intelligence. The US intelligence was able to uncover the operation.
One of its specifications is that (unclear) (unclear) the American rifle M16A2 with the very high initial velocity and the piercing bullet from only a distance of 5 meters. And from the ammo of the American MG machine gun of medium caliber 7.62 from the same distance.

Page 36-37/60
Translator’s note: He mentions the Russian T72 tank in the republican guards units. Apparently their engines suffered terribly in the desert during the Iraq-Iran war.
On page 37
The commanders of the Republican Guards complained of their inability to move. In 1998 during operation Desert Fox the best brigade was only able to move 6 tanks out of 21 and only for 1,200 meters. The qualities of the new Russian tanks is fire power, movement and armor protection. And SUDDENLY NEW ENGINES APPEARED (translator’s emphasis) that were imported from Russia. Republican guards units were equipped with 70 engines for every operational brigade. The engines were also shipped from Syria. That happened one month before the start of the war.

Page 38/60
The notes explain how Sebaaoui (Saddam’s half brother) escaped to Syria.

Page 39/60
The notes explain how Saddam used the Oil for Food Program to reinforce his status by buying the loyalty of his surroundings.
Page 42-43/60
Emptying Saddam’s palaces from all the riches
When the Anglo-American forces entered one of Saddam’s palaces in Basra everybody remembers this event on TV. The strange thing is that the palace was completely empty save from some chairs, one table and a bed in a room. Where did the furniture go? What about the other palaces especially in Baghdad, (unclear) next to Baiji , Mosul and Al Anbar. Three months before the war the news was coming about trucks loaded with very expensive items (all the world saw faucets made of gold). There was a talk about trucks moving those riches to Syria. Someone who works at Al walid center told me that once he saw 35 private trucks (trailer) that crossed the border to Syria.

Page 44-45/60
The notes explain how Saddam used gifts to buy loyalty.

Page 46-47/60 Saddam’s crocodile pets.
One day in 1998 I was passing (unclear) which is situated at the other side of the Tigris river facing Al Ouja and I passed by one of my friends who is a police officer. When I asked him how he was doing he laughed and said that the most courageous man will not be able to operate the water pump on the river, to irrigate his crops, because 6 crocodiles escaped from Saddam’s palace. At that time I was going to Kirkuk for 2 days and when I came back he told me that there were 6 Africans looking for the crocodiles and they were able to catch them but he was afraid from those crocodiles having laid their eggs on the banks of the river.
When I asked another friend of mine in the Tikrit police force, who was a friend of the driver of First lady Sajida wife of Saddam, about the truth of the crocodiles’ story and why does Saddam own them he said that he enjoys watching them when he is sitting by the side of (unclear) while drinking his luxurious whisky and feeding them meat and live birds. (Translator’s notes: Any kind of alcohol is forbidden in Islam. I mentioned before that during the 80’s Saddam never portrayed himself as a Muslim leader but as an Arab nationalist. In the nineties it was in his interest to ride the Islamic wave. Udaii was a famous womanizer/rapist)            

Page 48-49/60
The (unclear) of the Iraqi regime by the embargo of food and medicine.
The Iraqi regime used to always scream that the UN and USA is forbidding him access to medicine. And I have the document which says that 3 Swedish companies with excellent ties to Iraq for more than 30 years are selling very good quality pharmaceutical products to the Iraqi ministry of health. Those companies do not sell drugs to third parties (triangle deals) (in English in original text) made of high ranking Iraqis. Those Iraqis want to buy those drugs from the Swedes and sell them to the Iraqi governments at many times the real price. Those respectable companies refuse those dirty dealings and appeal the Iraqi government to directly deal with it in a clean manner. They refuse to deal with third parties to protect their reputation. (Translator’s notes: Al Jazeera’s favorite coverage from Iraq prior to OIF was to show suffering Iraqi children in hospitals, while doctors would blame the sanctions. The regime used to organize mass funerals for children who died from lack of proper medical treatment. Arab and European TVs were always present.)

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Iraq document about research involving WMD- 1998

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September 1998 Document: Secret Research Programs Related to WMD (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website ^ | April 11 2006 | jveritas

Posted on 04/11/2006 8:47:53 PM PDT by jveritas

In pages 63 and 64 of document Document CMPC-2003-002284 , there is secret and confidential memo dated September 16 1998 concerning a meeting of the National Monitoring Department to discuss how to destroy some “non necessary documents” and keep the necessary one in a safe place according to the memo but the most important part of the memo is a pareagraph on how to handle “The Researches That Cannot Be Declared and that is related with the previous Prohibited Programs of WMD and how to make sure that information about these researches will not leak to the outside because it will be too dangerous if this happened”. Yet another document that proves without any doubt that Saddam Regime never stopped working in his WMD programs and Research and they were just waiting for the opportune moment to produce these WMD again on a large scale. Also remember that in September 1998 the UN inspectors were still in Iraq and they were kicked later on that year after some US air and missile strikes. So most definitely these Secret Research Programs related to WMD were still in existence and may have reached a more advanced stage from late 1998 to late 2002 where during this period of time there were no UN inspectors in Iraq. This document is another proof that we could have never trusted Saddam and that we had all the right to remove his brutal and terrorist regime after 9/11/2001.

See the rest here

An interesting coincidence

Update below: the original post

Captain's Quarters also has a post about a document that refers to moving WMD into the Rashad area. I looked at the document and my non-expert stab at the date (waiting to hear from Sammi) is Jan 24th, 2002. I decided to google al Rashad and came up with this BBC article.

United Nations weapons inspectors have completed their first field visit in Iraq for four years.

AND

The team our correspondent was following visited the al-Tahadi factory, in the al-Rashad suburb about 13 kilometres (8 miles) north-east of the capital.

So the very first location inspected by the UN after a four year absence was al Rashad.  Could it be that this site was chosen first because of intelligence that WMD was hidden there? Of course, this is speculation, but pretty reasonable.

Later in the article:

As the inspections began, air raid sirens sounded over Baghdad.

Iraqi officials say they were set off by Western planes flying over the city.

The Iraqi capital is just north of a southern no-fly zone regularly patrolled by US and British planes.
But both US and UK officials denied there had been any activity over Baghdad.

A possible signal to warn that a UN inspection team was on the way? It would be simple enough if you knew you were hiding weapons there to set up a signal in case the UN team went in that direction. Perhaps better than a phone call which could be monitored. Again, pure speculation but something to think about. The article then goes on to say the site was inspected but nothing was found. Is it possible that the WMD was there but so well hidden it was missed? Just a thought....

UPDATE:

And the mystery is solved: Sammi

this document is from IRIB not from an Iraqi government source.
The weapons are moved to Al Rachad and not Al Rachid area.

It is an iranian document! They probably got it through their agents.

Ray: so what does that mean? Don't know and don't care right now since this is not even an Iraqi document.

Here is the full translation:

IRIB World Service Regime’s broadcast in Arabic    24-1-2002

 (translator’s note: IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting)

 Moving of Chemical Weapons to the Rachad Area

 At the beginning of the current month the ruling regime has moved the chemical and biological  weapons to the Rachad area which he proclaimed a military and restricted area.

The area is covered with many trees and orchards.