Posted on 10/22/2006 3:20:17 PM PDT by juiceboxguy
Just days before the anthrax attacks of 2001 started in the United States, the Saddam regime appears to have received intelligence of an impending attack on its own government. According to a newly translated memorandum, Saddam’s office issued a security alert on September 17th, 2001 for a “poisonous paper” attack. The alert consisted of a warning that “agents” who were instructed by their “Iranian masters” were going to submit personal paperwork to Iraqi government offices that it called “poisonous papers”.
While the memo does not state the nature of the poison, due to the context of the memo it seems to indicate some type of chemical or biological agent would be embedded on the paper, which would then be submitted to government offices. An Arabic linguist informs this researcher that the original Arabic term for “poisonous papers” is not used metaphorically and almost certainly refers to some type of literal deadly agent.
This new information comes from a document captured in Iraq. The Pentagon has released hundreds of Saddam’s documents at an online repository. The document can be found at the Foreign Military Studies Office website. It is in Arabic and our translator “Sammi” provides an original English translation below. The memorandum has two pages with what appear to be official letterhead and stamps.
Begin Translation for CMPC-2003-006051 (http://70.168.46.200/Released%5C10-03-06/CMPC-2003-006051.pdf)
Page 1
In the name of Allah the Merciful
Republic of Iraq
Presidency of the Republic
The Secretary
Top secret and personal
Number: K/9320
Date: 17 September 2001
To: Respected Director of the Intelligence Service
Respected Director of the General Military Intelligence
Respected Director of General Security
Subject: Information
We have received information saying that agents, following instructions from their Iranian masters have instructed their followers to go to official and semi-official government offices to follow up on paper work. They were instructed to submit personal files containing poisonous papers that were specially prepared to target the officials and the important places in the security, (Baath) party, and administrative offices in all the provinces of the country.
Please be informed and respond as needed.
With respects.
Colonel
Dr. Abd Hamid Khattab
Secretary of the President of the Republic
16 September 2001
continued at American Thinker
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Very interesting. I will read the document in its origin Arabic form.
Maybe their intelligence services picked up info regarding the attack on us and mistakenly thought it would be directed at them.
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It could be a clever ruse.
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