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Posted on 03/20/2006 1:36:42 AM PST by MadIvan
SADDAM Hussein ordered plans to be drawn up for a chemical weapons attack on Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq in 1987, according to a letter signed by his personal secretary.
The letter was among a series of memos between Saddam's office, military intelligence and the army found by United States troops in Iraq; they do not say if the attack was carried out.
The planned attack appears to have been part of the 1987-88 campaign that left more than 180,000 Kurds dead and demolished hundreds of Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. In the most notorious incident, the town of Halabja was bombed with mustard and nerve gas in 1988, killing 5,000 residents.
In the papers released by the US, a report from Iraq's military intelligence details the bases of Kurdish rebels, led by Ibrahim Barzani, and Iranian troops.
Saddam's secretary replies, saying, "The leader Mr President has ordered that your department study with experts a surprise attack with special ammunition in the areas of Barzani's gangs and the [former Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini Guards."
"Special ammunition" is the phrase used throughout Saddam's regime for chemical weapons. Later documents mention specifically the nerve agent sarin and mustard gas.
The US military says the government "has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein"
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
If we keep repeating "Saddam had no WMD" will it come true, Daddy?
NO!
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Gradual is not the issue, we are not going to tell them to tell us what we are going to implement from this article, and they only come to Iraq! Israel has WMD. Iran has WMD. Many other countries have many missiles, what’s their position on this? According to this article? You solve this problem, and discuss it with him? Why not? We discussed this issue in the SC and with document. What they want to do is, to strip us from everything, and then they will think how to deal with economic sanctions? Meanwhile we don’t have anything but this lonely card in our hand to negotiate.
Must be a letter "discovered" by SeeBS. We all know that Saddam didn't have any WMD - the MSM told us so!!!
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WOW .. someone is the media is actually reporting on these documents
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What crime did he commit? His word was law so anything he ordered was, ipso facto, legal under the prevailing concept of legal positivism.
I say he should be found 'not guilty' and hanged on general principles.
I believe this declassified doc covers that too
Declassified Iraqi War Crimes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/884889/posts
It's already true. MSM polls say it, dontcha know?
At the rate his trial is proceeding, he will die of old age first.
Not really, Ivan. The liberals and the MSM (one and the same), will soon clarify that the "special weapons" were to loaded with marshmallows, not chemicals.
Yes, kind of like if they keep repeating "There is a civil war in Iraq," it will come true.
(Haven't found that dang civil war yet...but I'm still looking!)
Allegra, how many iraqi folks-on-the-street are calling the current level of violence 'civil war'?
Is this document posted on the Pentagon website? I do not see it posted yet.
I haven't met a single one who has. In fact most of them are scoffing at that notion.
MSM and MoveOn FReeper Response: Of course, that's just Baghdad.
You know...the capital...where they have a blend of Sunni, Shiite and Kurd...
BTTT
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