1997 Document: Orders To Remove All Information Related To WMD From Computers (Translation)

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[jveritas]

Pages 99 to129 of document CMPC-2003-00013038 dated in March 1997, many years after Saddam was supposed to fully comply with the UN resolutions to disarm his WMD and reveal everything to the UN inspectors, include many correspondences from the Iraqi intelligence service asking their employees not to store any information related to WMD and remove any information they have regarding WMD from their computers and records. This is yet another document that shows how Saddam Regime was doing all their efforts to hide their WMD programs or any information relate to it from the UN inspectors, a clear sign that this regime never really complied and they always wanted to keep their WMD programs and production.

Beginning of Translation of Page 107:

Subject: Pledge

I am the signatory below, I pledge not to store any information related to the Prohibited Weapons on any computer that we have installed and evacuate the related numbered magnetic discs to outside the location. And for this I sign

Signature

Name: Issam Shaker

Position: Director of Administration in the Fourth Directory

Directory: The Forth Directory

Date: 26/3/1997

End of translation of Page 107

In the document, there are many letters with the same text as in page 107 signed by other employees of the Iraqi intelligence service.

Beginning of the Translation of Page 115:

A visit was made to the Computer Center of the Third Directory Storage and search it and inform the person who is directly in charge of it to remove all the information related to the Prohibited Matters and what is related to the committees of inspection and industrialization and that he will be held responsible for this.

Signature

29/3/1997

End of translation of Page 115

In the document, there are many letters with the same text as in page 115 that inform different departments in the Iraqi intelligence service to remove all the information related to WMD.

[FreedomNeocon]

I am not a computer expert, but what does these magnetic discs mean. Are those the same type big discs that we used to see many years ago in the IT departments here in the US. Please keep in mind that the Iraqi in 1997 had an old computer system and may have not have more modern systems until late 2001, 2002

Magnetic disks is just the translated word for hard drive (of a computer). It actually could be USB key, or other kind of 'flash' drive as well but knowing the years, I would think PC's or at least their HDD was removed and shipped to be 'stored' somewhere secret. A typical computer hard drive is only 3.inches thick, and are less than a foot long. Could stack hundreds in a simple, single crate.

[jveritas]

Thank you very much for the information. I think some of these magnetic discs were large data storage for the Iraqi main frame computer network.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

This stuff needs to be published in book form.

[OakOak]

Wonder why we didn't hear about this on the news?

[FivebyFive]

Call me goofy, but I still believe that the Hussein regime had at least a portion of the WMDs it was suspected (by the whole world) that they had prior to the war, and that the many months of largely unsupervised threats, negotiations, and challenges that Iraq endured prior to the invasion was time enough for Saddam to hide many of these weapons in friendly neighborhood nations such as Syria (whose Baathist regime was closely aligned to that of Iraq's).

[jveritas]

You are not goofy at all, and I agree with you 100%.

[FivebyFive]

RE: "You are not goofy at all, and I agree with you 100%"


First time tonight someone's said that to me, and thanx for it. Also it's the last, as I'm going to *YAWN**SIGH*YAWN* bed now.

Sleep tight, FReepers.