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Saddam Regime Document: Purchasing “Chemical Materials for Very Special Usage” (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents http://70.168.46.200/ ^ | January 31 2007 | jveritas

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: chemicalwarfare; iraqiwmds; prewardocs; prewarintelligence; saddamswmd; saddamwmdlink; wmd
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1 posted on 01/31/2007 12:58:26 PM PST by jveritas
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To: eyespysomething

It has been a while :)


2 posted on 01/31/2007 12:58:58 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Bahbah; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; Knitting A Conundrum; 4butnomorethan30characters

ping to new jveritas translation...


3 posted on 01/31/2007 1:01:20 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Aspiring Guru Seeks Disciples and Admiring Followers -- apply within)
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To: jveritas

Thanks JV,
It's great to see you still on the case....JJ61


4 posted on 01/31/2007 1:01:51 PM PST by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: jveritas

Hey, good work. You've been busy lately.


5 posted on 01/31/2007 1:02:46 PM PST by pissant
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To: jveritas
A must read for those commentators on FR swooning about how much better Saddam was.
6 posted on 01/31/2007 1:02:56 PM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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To: jveritas

Probably just olive oil /s


7 posted on 01/31/2007 1:04:32 PM PST by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: JerseyJohn61

Always here to help :)


8 posted on 01/31/2007 1:06:31 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Bahbah

No doubt ;)


9 posted on 01/31/2007 1:07:13 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: pissant; kristinn

Thanks :) Kristinn has done most of the work on the Iraq Citizens report, I was just a small contributor.


10 posted on 01/31/2007 1:08:54 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

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.


11 posted on 01/31/2007 1:09:55 PM PST by pghkevin (Have you hugged your kids today? Have you thanked someone in the Military today?)
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To: jveritas

The link doesn't work. Are the pre-war documents still available for downloading someplace?


12 posted on 01/31/2007 1:11:03 PM PST by faq
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To: jveritas

I came up empty Googling "Seess Syria"


13 posted on 01/31/2007 1:12:05 PM PST by kidd
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To: jveritas

The MSM will say this was for Uday's Dry Cleaning business.


14 posted on 01/31/2007 1:12:54 PM PST by AU72
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To: faq
Unfortunately the Iraqi documents website was shut down on November 2 2006 after a bunch of lies from the IAEA printed by the New York Times complaining about sensitive documents related to Iraq nuclear program that were posted on the website. It was all BS of course but it is very disappointing that those bureaucrats in the government who did not want the documents to be published from the beginning took the IAEA lies as an excuse to shut the website.

I have downloaded and saved 1700 documents, this was one of them.

15 posted on 01/31/2007 1:15:43 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: kidd

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".


16 posted on 01/31/2007 1:18:16 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: pghkevin

Thank you :)


17 posted on 01/31/2007 1:19:14 PM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas
The Al Rashid General Company controlled most if not all of the major solid-propellant missile initiatives and the related production facilities. see 3.2- Link
18 posted on 01/31/2007 1:37:45 PM PST by icwhatudo (The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
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To: jveritas

Good to see you're not resting on your laurels. Modesty aside, your contribution to the report was enormous.


19 posted on 01/31/2007 1:39:38 PM PST by kristinn
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"I have downloaded and saved 1700 documents.."

It is so good that you had the foresight to do that. Thanks for all your work.

20 posted on 01/31/2007 1:42:21 PM PST by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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