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March 2003 Top Secret Memo: TRANSFER OF SPECIAL AMMUNITION (POTENTIAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS) Translation
Pentagon/FMSO Iraq Pre-War Documents ^ | April 17 2007 | jveritas

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.


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To: IonImplantGuru

That is "Pink Panther" for bump.


241 posted on 04/17/2006 7:05:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
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To: jveritas; SittinYonder

Special Ammunition is not any other ammunition, what is special about 155 mm shells if it does not contain Chemical Weapons. The Iraqi used the term "Special Ammunition" exclusively to designate "Chemical Weapons".


SittinYonder,

Not only did jveritas translate this from one of the documents, it was also noted in the book "Saddam's Secrets" by Georges Sada. Former General Sada wrote that there were unique names for WMD weapons and ammo and that "Special Weapons" or "Special Ammunition" was reserved exclusively for chemical weapons.

When I saw Joseph's translation, I thought, Georges was right. It makes me think Georges may be right about a lot more too. Time will tell


242 posted on 04/17/2006 7:36:54 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: RayRobisonblog
"... would love to read their take on saddam's brain."
Hope you can download it, and read chunks at a time. It really does give info others had wrote a few years back. He in his last ten years or so entered "fantasy land" on many things. It always happens with little criminal that make it big. In many ways he ended up outfoxing himself.
One thing that stands out in the document is there really where a few fairly good generals. Much as happend in Germany came to past in Iraq. It is like reading a book from Speer or Gurdarian. Mad man really goes mad, and those that know how to get things done, learn to shut up and just go along for the ride.
243 posted on 04/17/2006 7:50:36 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Coop

Thanks for the ping.


244 posted on 04/17/2006 7:55:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Tolerance of evil is not virtue)
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To: SittinYonder
Particularly when so many of them are contradictory

You know, I have all of JV's translation on my Blog. With each one I gave my own analysis, for what's it's worth.

But I haven't seen many contradictions.

I've take all of these translations and put them into a spreadsheet. I headed the columns...date translated, date of document, FreePURL, Harmony URL, and subject.

Now I can sort them by any of the above categories. Even with only about 17 do far, there's a pattern emerging.

This is preliminary so don't hold me to it, but it appears that for six months leading up to the invasion many other countries were getting involved with Iraq. One has Russia selling Saddam a bunch of ammuniton when a)there was supposed to be sanctions and who at the UN approved this sale under oil for food; and b)the Russians HAD to know that the weapons they were selling to Saddam would be used against American troops.

Also around that time we got French and German stuff going on, meetings with Saddam.

Around the invasion we've got some translations all involving chemical weapons of some sort.

See, this is how this thing is going to go down. They'll not be a smoking gun...okay one smoking gun, more on this later.

It's going to be a trend, a pattern that will emerge, clear and sharp. A pattern that logical people can deduce the truth.

Okay, my prediction on a smoking gun....I oughta charge you for this ;). I think it's possible that JV will find some document(S) that implicate some major politicos right here in America.

THAT will be a smoking gun. Probably something involving the French, the CIA, reaching right into the White House.

Absent this, an enticing thought, huh?...the truth will come out with the trend.

Just so y'all know I'm still on top of this.

245 posted on 04/17/2006 7:57:31 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: mjaneangels@aolcom

I think the WMD went to Syria is almost beyond dispute. The Russians had the so-called "Sarindar plan" to move WMD the Russians sold to middle easter countries out of those middle eastern countries if it ever looked like the west (the U.S.) was going to invade.

I've posted this a couple of times, but I enjoy posting it, so here's more that I think shows almost conclusively that WMD went to syria:

"Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to the arms programs were shipped to Syria."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10547

"Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.

Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."

In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.

"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.

In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.

"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06036/649858.stm

"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org).
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/18/233023.shtml

"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html

"Two days before the war, on March 17th, we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and techinical (satellite,eavesdrop) intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 Iraqis, going to Syria."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227810/posts


246 posted on 04/17/2006 7:59:13 PM PDT by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: Fishtalk
But I haven't seen many contradictions.

Right, and I shouldn't have said "so many." The big contradiction is that we've got documents that talk about WMD and that they had WMD.

But the contradiction is the only story the AP reported on about the document release, which was the "poor Saddam" story about translated tapes where he and other senior officials were talking about how they had no WMD but the US didn't believe them.

247 posted on 04/17/2006 8:04:06 PM PDT by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: mjaneangels@aolcom

I hope that the facts and truth that these documents are revealing and what General Georges Sada is saying will be known by a much wider audience.


248 posted on 04/17/2006 8:06:50 PM PDT by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: jveritas; eyespysomething

With Powerline and Hugh Hewitt both on this, I went back to see how many views this article had:

March 2003 Top Secret Memo: TRANSFER OF SPECIAL AMMUNITION (POTENTIAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS) Translation
Posted by jveritas
On News/Activism 04/17/2006 11:40:37 AM EDT · 246 replies · 5,997+ views

Nearly 6,000 people have seen this translation! That's pretty darn significant.

Way to go jveritas - the word is getting out!


249 posted on 04/17/2006 8:07:06 PM PDT by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: SittinYonder

Thanks for the update :)


250 posted on 04/17/2006 8:10:01 PM PDT by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: SittinYonder

Not certain how the views are counted, but I think it is likely that a reload or a refresh counts as one view....


251 posted on 04/17/2006 8:14:11 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: SittinYonder
Powerline and Hugh Hewitt

I read the Powerline and Hewitt analysis. Plus the many other interpretations/suggestions.

They were all good, thoughtful, attempts to grasp the truth. That's okay.

If the mighty middle class wants this thing documented and history recorded correctly, we're gonna have to do it ourselves. Give us enough time we can get rid of the government completely. ;)

252 posted on 04/17/2006 8:15:55 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: yoe
Somebody should tell the MSM to announce this lie to the American people.
253 posted on 04/17/2006 8:26:22 PM PDT by antiunion person (Maybe it is BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: jveritas

"I hope that the facts and truth that these documents are revealing and what General Georges Sada is saying will be known by a much wider audience."

So do I.

I didn't really know what to expect from General Sada's book when I bought it. I just knew I was hunting for the truth and the truth does not change based on whose side a person is on.


254 posted on 04/17/2006 8:27:55 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: jveritas

Thank you very much for all the work you have done on this issue!


255 posted on 04/17/2006 8:33:27 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SittinYonder

Oh man, just getting ready for nighty night and you had to mention the "poor Saddam" story and get me all PO'd again :)


256 posted on 04/17/2006 8:40:56 PM PDT by RayRobisonblog
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To: RayRobisonblog
Oh man, just getting ready for nighty night and you had to mention the "poor Saddam" story and get me all PO'd again :)

LOL ... that's one of my favorite bedtime stories! Keeps me up for days.

257 posted on 04/17/2006 8:44:32 PM PDT by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: jveritas

We;re getting closer to the truth here!


258 posted on 04/17/2006 8:47:02 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Grampa Dave
A few years back, there was a video tape of testing a nerve agent on a dog. It was shown on the cable networks. It was up for sale. This was prior to the IF campaign.

www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/ 19/terror.tape.chemical/index.html - 44k -

Just so we don't forget.

(Can some one give me a hand posting a link?)
259 posted on 04/17/2006 8:50:16 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Order of Battle: Sink or capture as Prize, MS Media)
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To: SouthTexas

Anytime :)


260 posted on 04/17/2006 8:54:34 PM PDT by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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