March 2003 Top Secret Memo: TRANSFER OF SPECIAL AMMUNITION (POTENTIAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS) Translation

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

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:

To the depots and storage of the Second Corp and the two ammunition depot groups Dijla/2/3

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:

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.

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.

Believe me, I am not in any way eluding to the fact Saddam was not cruel and very calculating. But during his last five or more years, it appeared to some and mentioned by some of the interviewed Iraqi general officers, that he was losing it. I am not basing my statements on L/MSM but on US Army released documentation. As for the wmd programs. I have written many many times repeating various things the US military forces had found in many military bases. There is no doubt they had plans on using bio/chemical weapons on an invading force. In fact, Saddam gave the order for them to do just that.
For what reason would one have to let syringes, vials of atropine, and gas maskes lay in ammo bunkers, if they where not quickly removing binary shells and other bio/chem ordnance configurations so the stuff would not be found.
Hell. In early 2005 I believe it was, one of our Army units found and diffused a crude IED. It was a rigged binary shell, forget the caliber.
So I am in no way diminshing the idea they did not have wmds .
They had big plans to go full steam ahead and make more once the oil for food/sanctions where lifted.

If Saddam ever had it, he lost it by the time he was ten. He's a classic sociopath with homicidal tendencies, which means paranoia is a strong factor. I'm only saying he IS capable right now, today of discerning fantasy from reality. I mean that he IS competent to stand trial (that's law school talking, sorry)

Saddam was seriously into dual use tech. So he takes Tabun based pesticide (Google it; it's a German chem weapon, abandoned as a weapon for being too good) and figures if he drops undiluted pesticide on the Army of Satan outside Baghdad he can enough to make us think twice, without violating UN sanctions - after all, it's just bug spray. As for collateral damage, the outskirts of Baghdad are mostly poor, mostly Shia. We already Saddam's feelings on such masses of people. Masses can be replaced.

But most of his army are scared to death of him. They don't follow orders and say they do. They have a whole brotherhood of troops scared of Saddam, all supporting each other. Weapons are ordered to the troops but the troops don't comply. Saddam's only way of getting the guilty party is to kill his whole army. Thus herd mentality rules: there's safety in numbers, 'cause there's no way he can get us all. No doubt there was a frequent pattern of investigations and executions of alleged conspirators, while the rest of the grunts mentally wiped the sweat off their collective foreheads and breathed a sigh of relief.

He has a fanatical core of followers. Since Hitler failed him young, Saddam DID after all become a pure Stalinist. Think "Former Soviet generals" running raggedly from their second loss of the cold war. Oh yes, Saddam had fanatical followers and they didn't have to be Arab or Muslim or even Iraqi to join the club. He had a separate set of chems and possibly a nuke ( he DID deal militarily with the government of the DPRNK, we know this for fact; he'd buy one first, build his own later ) to threaten his neighbors with for after all the sanctions were gone because he had complied with the inspectors.

Saddam has no patience. He's a megalomaniac. He wants to be billed as the second coming of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled WAY before Muhammad was a twinkle in his father's eye. HOWEVER he is devious. He is intelligent. In fact, I would like to play chess against him. Anyhow, his impatience is his weak point and that is the only thing that got him into consistent trouble.

However, never underestimate his native intelligence or cunning, NOR that of his followers whether they are Are Arabs or even Iraqis.

Jveritas has given us the tip of the iceberg. It will take years to reveal. When that happens, it will be massive enough (especially when you consider the whole of Asia and most of EUrope will be involved, just like blood for oil vouchers) that the oil for food scam will be lost in it's shadow.

You opened a can of worms, Joseph. I helped do that with blood for oil vouchers, including carefully worded letters to members of the media, saying the exact opposite of what was actually true in order to get them to read them verbatim or make the intellectual leap into Paranoia Land that would clue them that this sucker had legs. Either way, beyond Fox, blood for oil vouchers has gotten little press in the mass media. Just goes to show it AIN'T about the public's "right to know" after all.

I do not envy you your task, but I salute you and support your dedication. I wish my grasp of Arabic was up to helping you, but I never got much beyond pidgin.

I have to get up in four hours. Good night all.

Start by asking for the duty officer... tell them who you are and what you're doing and ask to be assigned to an Agent who is working on this stuff. They will check you and your background out to see if you're legitimate, etc. You should also check out the Agent they assign to you, to make sure it's not a Junior Agent who has no standing... make sure you get a good Agent who (a) takes you seriously, (b) has some standing/power in the agency, (c) can put you on the payroll, and (d) can offer you protection when/if that becomes necessary.

It may not work quite that way. Remember this website with the documents is run by the Joint Reserve Intelligence Center. There may or may not be any full time staff. I was in the Air Force Reserve Intelligence Force (actually call Air Reserve Intelligence Forces at the time), we had no full time staff, just a bunch of guys working weekends. (Mostly). I noticed on their website a form for reservists involving "virtual" or "distance" participation. That probably means the guys (and gals, one of ours is pinning on her second star later this month) don't travel to Ft. Leavenworth or even to any Army post, but simply analyze stuff from home. Or if they need to see classified stuff, then they'd have to arrange for some "host unit" to loan them their facilities on the weekend, which is the way our detachment worked. Still jveritas should be able to get in touch with someone. I suspect the JRIC has some full time staff, or at least someone who does his "drills" and "active duty training" at Ft. Leavenworth and at least answers the mail (or the email).

but many names don't have a common spelling even though many linguists use a common arabic dictionary.

Of course not, names generally aren't in the dictionary. Unless the name actually means something, like Bush for instance, it has to be transliterated, not translated. Clearly the names are not being translated, or they'd turn out as common nouns in English, like "Smith", which is a trade or the common noun for one who practices that trade. Or Driver, Weaver, Fisher, etc. When you transliterate, particularly into English pronunciations, there is generally no unique transliteration of the sounds. For example if someone's name sounded like school, it might be transliterated that way, or as Skul, or Schul, or well you get the idea. The phonemes of Arabic aren't even the same as English phonemes, adding to the possibilities for different transliterations. (a phoneme the smallest meaningful psychological unit of sound.).

After I further reviewed in “great and meticulous details” the whole 262 pages of document ISGP-2003-0001498 , there is a great possibility that the ammunition transfer in this 9 pages top secret memo was not of Chemical Weapons but rather regular ammunition. In fact the wording of Arabic “Al AA’TEEDA AL KHASA BEE MAJOMOOAT MAKHAZAN EETAD AL NAJAJ” can be interpreted as “Ammunitions Specialized to Al Najaf ammunition depots group” or as “ Special Ammunitions in the Al Najaf ammunitions depot group”.

Based on this and due to the lack of further and stronger evidence in the 262 pages document that support the theory of Transfer of Special Ammunition (or Chemical Weapons), and because we need to maintain the credibility of the translation and FR, I would like to ask the Admin Moderator to retrieve this thread from FR files.

I apologize for any problems I have caused.

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