March 2003 Iraqi Document: Orders to Hide Weapons In Underground Shelters (Pentagon Translation)

Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents http://70.168.46.200/ ^ | September 25 2006 | Pentagon Translators

[jveritas]

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[CDHart]

bttt

[Chuck54]

Rove's October surprise? Photographs maybe?

You are doing an outstanding job jveritas and I, as well as thousands of conservatives, thank you.

[GoBucks2002]

Rove must be slipping. It took him three years to cook up this phony memo?

Seriously, great find!

[roses of sharon]

Have we even found any underground facilities? I recall one with some hallways and rooms, but I would assume thruout Iraq there would be more.

[Dog]

Stay with it Joseph...we all read what your posts.

[jveritas]

Thank you very much. This one was posted in its English translation on the FMSO website, the thanks should go to the Pentagon translators :)

[AliVeritas]

J, you vetted the original?

[AliVeritas]

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[jveritas]

I ma sure that there are many underground shelters or weapons burial sites that we did not uncover yet. Iraq is the size of California, unless we get very lucky or get a tip from someone or find some documents, we will not know about where the WMD or Precursors for WMD were found.

[vigilante2]

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[jveritas]

The original Arabic document is not posted on the FMSO website.

[jveritas]

I shall :)

[Richard Axtell]

"This can't be true, it didn't happen, Rove forged this, what me worry?, I've never seen this in the press, not even the WSJ editorial page, blah blah blah." There, now all the Democrats can relax because I have just given them all the talking points they need to refute this discovery. Of course, the facts are on the side of the existence, concealment, and dispersal of WMDs by Saddam, but when have facts affected DNC talking points?

[genefromjersey]

I'm glad you caught this one. I had spotted it a few days ago but neglected to bookmark it.

My feeling is this order is important (primarily) because it proves a chain of command reaching from the top to military,to the Fedayeen Saddam, to the al-Quds (Palestinian) Martyrs brigades....although it might explain small hideouts discovered, containing VX in one and a small flash dryer in another.

All were under 1 command.

By the way, when Iraqis refer to the 1st Gulf War, they are talking about the Iraq/Iran war; the 2nd to them was Desert Storm; and the present conflict is #3.

[Chuck54]

....but when have facts affected DNC talking points?

Never.......

[kesg]

In addition to WMDs, this document could be referring to devices such as IEDs and other conventional weapons. In any event, I am not going to give these Saddamites the benefit of any doubt.

[AliVeritas]

Thank you kind brother.

[jveritas]

Gene

I think from the context of the letters, the mentioned 1st Gulf war is what we call operation Desert Storm. Also the Iraqis had different name for the wars they fought under Saddam. For example they called the war with Iran “The Glorified Qadisia of Saddam” and they called Operation Desert storm “The Mother of All Battles” or “The Thirties Aggression” referring to the alliance of the 30 nations against Iraq in operation Desert Storm. These names of the wars had been used in many Iraqi documents.