Posted on 01/31/2007 12:58:22 PM PST by jveritas
Saddam regime document CMPC-2004-003406 contains a memo that talks about importing “Chemical Materials for Very Special Usage” from the “Office in Morocco”. The deal according to the memo was based on the “Gentlemen Accord” and the condition was to pay cash and directly but they decided later on to pay it through a Syrian company called Seess and according the “Iraqi-Syrian Commerce Agreement”.
This document is of great importance because the “Chemical Materials for Very Special Usage” are very unlikely to fall under the civilian applications and much more likely to fall under the “Chemical Weapon Usage”.
The page where the memo is written is torn up, only the first 2 paragraphs are intact and it may be an apparent attempt by the Iraqis to destroy this memo either before the UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq in November 2002, or before Operation Iraqi Freedom stared in March 2003.
Although there is no exact date written on this memo, it for sure written between the years 2000 to 2003 because on the top of the page is typed the year “200..”, it was a common practice for the Iraqis to handwrite 0 next to 200 and have the year 2000 or hand write 1 next to 200 to make 2001 or handwrite 2 next to 200 to make it 2002 etc… and in many cases they hand wrote the dates on the bottom of the letter rather on the top so they leave the date empty on the top and just year “200..” appears. I have observed these writing practices in many documents that I have read.
Translation of what left over from the memo on page of document CMPC-2004-003406
In the Name of God the most Merciful The Most Compassionate
The Republic of Iraq
The Presidency of the Republic
The Military Industrialization Committee
To: The respected Mr. Vice Prime Minister-The Minister of Military Industrialization
Salute and Regards
Date ------/--------/200
Subject: The Morocco Office
1. The above office had earlier supplied Al Rashid General Company with “Chemical Materials for Very Special Usage” per a (Gentlemen) accord and with the conditions to pay cash and directly after accepting the materials (knowing that there was no account for financing).
2. Al Rashid General Company sent the payment contract to the Committee and the payment was transformed from the direct payment to that of the Syrian Agreement and that the Syrian company will be picked by our Committee with all its expenses and in condition to send the same due amount of money after (30) days only.
3. An amount of () dollars was sent to the Seess Syrian company according to our letter…
End of translation of the torn up memo, the amount of dollars paid to the Syrian company is not readable.
It has been a while :)
ping to new jveritas translation...
Thanks JV,
It's great to see you still on the case....JJ61
Hey, good work. You've been busy lately.
Probably just olive oil /s
Always here to help :)
No doubt ;)
Thanks :) Kristinn has done most of the work on the Iraq Citizens report, I was just a small contributor.
Thank you for your efforts! How does it feel to have your name recognized by certain offices in Langley VA? Have you received any open mail or heard any clicks on your phone calls?
All kidding aside, we do greatly appreciate your persistence.
The link doesn't work. Are the pre-war documents still available for downloading someplace?
I came up empty Googling "Seess Syria"
The MSM will say this was for Uday's Dry Cleaning business.
I have downloaded and saved 1700 documents, this was one of them.
I bet you that few Syrian companies are published on the Internet. After all Syria is a socialist state ruled by the Baath terrorist regime. Also the company name translated from English can spelled as "seass" or "sees" or "seas" or "sis".
Thank you :)
Good to see you're not resting on your laurels. Modesty aside, your contribution to the report was enormous.
It is so good that you had the foresight to do that. Thanks for all your work.
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