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.
Bump.
Sorry, got to the party late...
Attaboy, jveritas! Don't burn out though. Make sure you get your mind off of documents and on to some R&R periodically.
Since most of the important comments have already been made, I'll stick to the lighter stuff by pointing out that you guys are all wrong.
SPECIAL WEAPONS ARE THE ONES THAT GET FIRED FROM A SHORT YELLOW TUBE!
No problem ... just had to get home from work to find them. That's the great thing about FR. I forget three times as much as I ever remember, but someone else can always remind me.
Kudos, for the heavy lifting, JV. Let me second Coop's excellent point and add one more: Cross-link (read "footnote the Hell out of") as much of this as possible. The loony left won't buy in, anyway, but it won't be for a dearth of factual data exposing the cavernous divergence between reality and their perception of it.
Keep updated off-site backups of your hard drive volume(s) or, better, operate synchronized mirror volumes at multiple locations. Insurance against the "prone to sudden disappearance" characteristic of some kinds of information.
Ka-BUMP!
"The spelling of names...
Rasheed and Rashid.
Al Mira, Al Mirah, Al-Mirah, Al-Mira
Abdallah and Abdullah.
Are these still the same, even with the different spellings? Does Al Mirah mean the mirror?"
Hard to say, but many names don't have a common spelling even though many linguists use a common arabic dictionary.
absolutely, especially when you consider that there is ubdoubtedly internal Iraq sources that have never been revealed for their own protection.
thank you
sure thing, it concerned me as well
Saddam's Archives: We're Getting Warmer
April 17, 2006
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As regular readers know, we've been cautious about drawing conclusions from the tiny number of Iraqi documents that have so far been made public under Project Harmony. But today, jveritas at Free Republic, whose translation efforts we linked to here, has come up with what appears to be a highly significant memorandum.
This is how he introduces the translation:..........
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See beginning of this thread or the link.....
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The apparent significance of this document requires no elaboration. Transferring a load of ordinary munitions from Najaf to Baghdad would presumably not require the approval of the Army's Chief of Staff; nor would it be the subject of a top secret memo; nor would arrangements for "special vehicles" be necessary. Hugh Hewitt writes:
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More at the Powerline Link above..........
You guys need to see some of the questions being raised on the Powerline Blog,...see link above....
Interesting the Powerline readers say the munitions are too small to deliver WMD. Is there another meaning of "special ammunition"?
The 14.5 mm round was used originally for anti-tank rounds, though by the 1950s it was no longer effective against tanks but remained effective against other armored vehicles.
It's also a Russian round. Wonder if the "special ammunition" is what Russia gave them?
The first priority ammunition from the document is all large enough to deliver WMD. jveritas ... is there anything about the document that might suggest why one was first priority and one was second priority? Does the classification of first vs. second priority mean something more than what's obvious (ie. is "priority" a code word for something else or can it be translated in another way)?
Is there a way I can log in at Powerline and answer some of the questions?
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".
Most of this 262 pages document is about spreading different types of ammunitions, and only this 9 pages top secret memo use the term "Special Ammunition". As I said before this term is not loosely used by the Iraqis it is a very specific term to designate "Chemical Weapons Ammunition".
Conventional air defense munitions.
Yeah I hear you, but is there any reason that conventional ammo would be on the manifest along with the chemical munitions? Seems odd that they were consigned the same "special" status, even though they were cat 'B'.
I was wondering if there was anywhere in the document that would further explain.
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