Jveritas at Free Republic found the latest translated Saddam document, and it’s a good one. It is dated a few days before the kick off of the Iraqi war and contains orders to:
Hide and Conceal Equipments and Devices Underground in Hidden Shelters and especially the weapons and devices that are not currently in operations but can be used in the future.
As many have pointed out Saddam held onto the equipment and knowledge to start up his WMD program once the UN had capitulated to his demands for the sanctions to cease. These documents do not specifically point to banned weapons or technology, but the fact that they continually say “especially weapons and devices not currently in operation at this time which could operate in the future” is intriguing.
Either way, it’s one more piece for the puzzle…
Top Secret
03/11/2003
Ministry of Defense
Army Chiefs of Staff
Office of Army Chief of Staff
Number: ACS/Operations/2725/4/2
Date: 03/08/2003
To: Air Force Command Air Defense Command Commands of First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Corps Army Air Force Command Navy Command Command of the Surface-to-Surface Missile Branch
Re: Concealment of Equipment and Devices
1. During our observation of enemy air attack techniques in bombing and destroying deployed equipment and devices belonging to sectors not currently in operation at this time, in which the principle of deployment by our troops, we noticed that the troops deployed, fortified and established control to protect against any land attack.
2. The use of shelters that provide complete concealment and would completely hide the weapons, equipment and devices underground (as applied at the beginning of Gulf War I) has been authorized. As applied at the beginning of Gulf War I, this will make them hard-to-find targets for the enemy’s air force, especially weapons and devices not currently in operation at this time which may be brought into operation in the future. In the event that there is insufficient roofing material, begin with the most important priorities.
Act accordingly.
Signature
General Ibrahim `Abd-al-Sattar Muhammad
Army Chief of Staff
03/08/2003
Translation of second top secret letter
Directorate of General Military Intelligence
Number: D1/ S3/332
Date: 03/16/2003
Top Secret
List (A)
List (B)
Re: Hiding Equipment and Devices
In reference to the Army Chiefs of Staff’s Commander’s Assistants for Operations’ Top Secret letter #27250 dated 03/08/2003, reported to us in the Top Secret letter of the Directorate of General Military Intelligence # D7/S37/15607 dated 03/14/2003, shelters (hidden shelters) that provide complete concealment and would completely hide the weapons, equipment and devices underground. As applied at the beginning of Gulf War I, this will make them hard-to-find targets for the enemy’s air force, especially weapons and devices not currently in operation at this time which could operate in the future. In the event that there is insufficient roofing material, begin with the most important priorities.
Act accordingly.
(Signature)
Engineer Brigade
Shihab Ahmad Nasif (Nusayf)
Administrator for Technical Equipment
Translation of third top secret letter
03/16/2003
Cc: Directorate of General Military Intelligence # D7/S37/15607 2 Republic of Iraq
Directorate of General Military Intelligence
Number: D7/S37/15607
date: 03/14/2003
Top Secret
To: D.S.D (East – West – North – South – Middle – Al-Quds Army “Jerusalem Army”)
Re: Hiding Equipment and Devices
In reference to Top Secret letter number 2725 of the Army Chiefs of Staff dated 03/08/2003, shelters that provide complete concealment and would completely hide the weapons, equipment and devices underground (as applied at the beginning of Gulf War I) has been authorized. As applied at the beginning of Gulf War I, this will make them hardto- find targets for the enemy’s air force, especially weapons and devices not currently in operation at this time which may be brought into operation in the future. In the event that there is insufficient roofing material, begin with the most important priorities. Act accordingly.
Signature (illegible)
Staff Colonel
Directorate of General Military Intelligence
Cc: The Ninth Assisting Office: Act accordingly.
[TC: The name `Abd-al-Qadir and 03/13 are written under the signature]
End of Pentagon translation of Document CMPT-2004-001810-T.pdf
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