Posted on 04/17/2006 8:40:37 AM PDT by jveritas
Document ISGP-2003-0001498 ISGP-2003-0001498 contains a 9 pages TOP SECRET memo (pages 87-96 in the pdf document) dated March 16 2003 that talks about transferring “SPECIAL AMMUNITION” from one ammunition depot in Najaf to other ammunition depots near Baghdad. As we know by now the term SPECIAL AMMUNITION was used by Saddam Regime to designate CHEMICAL WEAPONS as another translated document has already shown. For example in document CMPC 2004-002219 where Saddam regime decided to use “CHEMICAL WEAPONS against the Kurds” they used the term “SPECIAL AMMUNITION” for chemical weapon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601810/posts. What is also interesting is that these “SPECIAL AMMUNITION” were listed as 122 mm, 130 mm, and 155 mm caliber shells which are not by itself SPECIAL unless it contain CHEMICAL WEAPONS. In fact the Iraqi have always used 122 mm, 130 mm, and 155 mm caliber shell as a main delivery tool for Chemical Weapons Agents by filling these type of shells with Nerve Gas, Sarin, Racin, Mustard gas and other Chemical Agents.
Beginning of partial translation of Pages 85-96 in document ISGP-2003-0001498
In the Name of God the Merciful The Compassionate
Top Secret
Ministry Of Defense
Chairmanship of the Army Staff
Al Mira Department
No. 4/17/ammunition/249
Date 16 March 2003
To: The Command of the Western Region
Subject: Transfer of Ammunitions
The secret and immediate letter of the Chairmanship of the Army Staff 4/17/308 on 10 March 2003
1. The approval of the Army Chief of Staff was obtained to transfer THE SPECIAL AMMUNITIONS in the ammunition depots group of Najaf and according to the following priorities:
A. The first priority
First. Ammunition (122 mm)
Second. Ammunition (130 mm)
Third. Ammunition (155 mm)
To the depots and storage of the Second Corp and the two ammunition depot groups Dijla/2/3
B. Second priority.
First. Ammunition (23 mm)
Second. Ammunition (14.5 mm)
To the ammunition depots of the air defense and distributed to the ammunition depot groups in (Al Mussayeb- Al Sobra- Saad).
2. To execute the order of the Chief Army Staff indicated in section (1) above, we relate the following:
A. Duty
Transfer of the ammunitions shown in sections (A) and (B) from the ammunitions depots of Najaf to the ammunition depots in (Dijla 2/3, and Al Mansor, and Saad, and Al Mussayeb, and Sobra and Blad Roz and Amar Weys from March 16 till April 14 2003.
Signature…
General Rasheed Abdallah Sultan
Assistant to the Army Chief of Staff- Al Mira
March 2003
End of Partial translation
The remaining pages of this 9 pages top secret memo talk about getting the special vehicles to transfer the SPECIAL AMMUNITION and the people assigned to supervise and execute the transfer and they were top Iraqi Army and Military Intelligence officers.
Look at the question in the post I'm pinging you to. Don't know if you have a chance to run him through your sources ... LOL (Lexis/Nexis)
Just some right-wing nuts, as far as I am aware. (/MSM_OFF)
You know, that would be my conclusion because I believe that's what happened to the WMD. But we know too that the invasion came long before Saddam expected it.
It could be that he was moving the weapons to a central location with the intent of distributing them to forces, got caught with his pants down when we did invade and then quickly evacuated the WMD to Syria ...
I imagine there are a lot of scenarios that are plausible.
This is the link to Hugh Hewitt's comments about Iraq and WMD.
http://hughhewitt.com/archives/2006/04/16-week/index.php#a001929
I have maintained for a long time that the REAL reason for the anti-american assaults on Operation Iraqi Freedom have little if anything to do with Iraq.
Even if Zarqawi has only recently given up on winning in Iraq, and the government will be formed soon, and Saddam will be executed soon, the REAL target of the anti-american assaults is the next war.
We see now the arguments against pulling an OSIRAQ attack on Iran's nuclear facilities include the "mistakes" in Iraq.
To quote The Right Brothers song, "Bush Was Right"!
The only open question publicly is what do we know about Iran, and what can we do to prevent them from going nuclear? Or it's North Korea. Or it's China.
The anti-americans want to prevent America from defeating the Axis of Evil. On the contrary, we must prevail.
OK, Clouseau, that's gotta be you!
Finally. LOL.
Tony mentioned you on his show today. At least he is starting to get some of this information out.
Tony mentioned you on his show today. At least he is starting to get some of this information out.
Word to your mother?
oh sure, I always look for the weakness as well, the only prob I see with this is it is almost too perfect.
That is not the way I recall it. We gave him over a years warning. That gave him plenty of time to get rid of the WMD before we got there.
More background http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2006/04/iraq_document_o.html
Update: globalsecurity.org
"During his 05 February 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Powell stated that "I'm going to show you a small part of a chemical complex called "Al Musayyib", a site that Iraq has used for at least 3 years to transship chemical weapons from production facilities out to the field. In May 2002, our satellites photographed the unusual activity in this picture. Here we see cargo vehicles are again at this transshipment point, and we can see that they are accompanied by a decontamination vehicle associated with biological or chemical weapons activity. What makes this picture significant is that we have a human source who has corroborated that movement of chemical weapons occurred at this site at that time. So it's not just the photo and it's not an individual seeing the photo. It's the photo and then the knowledge of an individual being brought together to make the case. This photograph of the site taken 2 months later, in July, shows not only the previous site which is the figure in the middle at the top with the bulldozer sign near it, it shows that this previous site, as well as all of the other sites around the site have been fully bulldozed and graded. The topsoil has been removed. The Iraqis literally removed the crust of the earth from large portions of this site in order to conceal chemical weapons evidence that would be there from years of chemical weapons activity. " [Powell]
On on 10 February 2003 a joint UNMOVIC team of 10 inspectors visited the Al-Musayyib Ammunition Depot, located in the province of Al-Musayyib (Babil Governorate). Inspectors questioned the site custodian about the number of warehouses and the number of new buildings at the site, as well as the types of ammunition stored there, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry stated. Inspectors reportedly searched the warehouses using chemical sensors and X-ray devices and collected samples from an 81-millimeter missile, the ministry added.
Al Atheer and Al Musayyib were merged into the the Motassim company which was part of the al Rashid State Establishment. "
Ray: The document lists one of the receiving depots as "Al Mussayeb" which is probably al Musayyib in Powell's speech.
Maybe you should get yourself an agent, who will shop your translations to publishers, and put ALL of them in a book. That way, the damned MSM would have to take notice and this news would finally get out. Just a thought..........
Many thanks for the ping!
I'm drive-by Freeping today and don't have time to look through the old PreWarDoc threads, but if you find the stories from a couple of weeks ago about the Russians providing Saddam with info just before the invasion of Iraq, you'll see that the Russians and Saddam were under the impression that we wouldn't invade until we had a certain unit in place.
When we struck, that unit was not in place.
Sorry for the vague response, but I assure you that we hit well before Saddam thought we were going to.
Now that's an understatement!!!
Was it the unit that was supposed to go into Iraq from Turkey?
The puzzle is coming together nicely!
Thanks for the Great work....
As jveritas pointed out, regardless of whether it was a ruse to try to fool his own troops or an honest top secret document ordering the movement of chemical weapons, it absolutely destroys the left's "Bush lied people died."
Here's the proof that the WMD existed in Iraq at least on paper ... Bush believed they existed because Saddam wanted people to believe they existed. There was no lie.
This document is probably the most significant WMD document I've seen both because of what it says and, more importantly, because of when it is dated. Of course, the bin Laden/Iraq connection documents are the best in terms of proof that Saddam needed to be eradicated from this world.
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