Posted on 06/18/2006 7:08:27 PM PDT by jveritas
Document CMPC-2003-000537 is a secret and personal memo written in November 1999 by the director of the Iraqi National Monitoring Department (NMD) and addressed to the Minister of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission (MIC). The memo talks about a Neutron Source Device with High Radioactive Activity that was found in one Iraqi University and the NMD is asking that it should be returned to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization. The Neutron Source Device can be also called Neutron Generator or Neutron Initiator. This Neutron Generator device was not declared to the UN inspectors all the time they were in Iraq from 1991 to late 1998 when they were kicked out of Iraq. In fact Neutron generators were prohibited to be used by the Iraqis according to this UN document ( http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/S-2002-515.pdf page 133 of this UN document pdf, an * next to an item means it is porhibited).
Beginning of the Translation of page 1 and 2 of document CMPC-2003-000537
In the Name of God the Most Compassionate The Most Merciful
The Republic of Iraq
The Presidency of the Republic
The Military Industrialization Commission
The National Monitoring Department
Number 12/M/3/94
Date 18/11/1999
Secret and Personal
The Respected Minister of Military Industrialization
Subject: Neutron Source
The University of Al Mustansirya/Science Faculty informed us in its letter No. 2369 on 24/10/1999 of the existence of a Neutron Source (Am-Be) in one of its laboratories and was previously brought by Dr. Midhat Al Zubaidi one of the ex-researchers (currently retired) of Firnas Center and we did the following:
1. Send a team from the department to investigate this Source where it was revealed it a Source (P-Be) with a high radiation activity (Aciory) brought in the year 1996.
2. A meeting was held in our department on Sunday 14/11/1999 with all the people concerned from the Atomic Energy Agency and the Firnas company and the Science Faculty/Al Mustansirya University and the following was revealed:
A. The Atomic Energy Organization clarified that this Source was not documented in their archives because it was previously shrouded by secrecy and it was delivered to Dr. Midhat Al Zubaidi at the end of year 1989.
B. Dr. Midhat clarified that he received the Source from the Organization in 1993 during the period where the equipment from the previous program were returned to the Al Tuwaitha site and he transferred to the Engineering Faculty/Baghdad University and then it was returned to its current location in Al Mustansirya University in the year 1996.
3. Dr. Khaled Ibrahim Said clarified that it is possible that this Source can be used by the Fourth Group where Dr. Midhat Al Zubaidi was one of its members in the year 1989 and for the purpose of doing some experimentations.
4. Information about this Source was previously requested by the Agency because it was imported to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization under the name of Al Basra University. And the Organization sent a team to Al Basra University to investigate or try to find it without any results.
In light of these infractions we suggest the return of the Source to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization and including and declaring it among the Radioactive Sources that it possesses.
With regards… Sir
General Engineer
Hussam Ahmad Amin
18/11/1999
End of the Translation.
I also found in my reading of document ISGQ-2003-00000813.pdf which is a 2002 document that the Iraqi were working to produce TANTALUM COATED GRAPHITE as part of research activities for the year 2002. This very special coating of Graphite with Tantalum to create a highly corrosion resistant surface for graphite. The document by itself does not say what is the use for this but for sure one of the few applications is that this Tantalum coated graphite can be used with the highly corrosive UF6 or Uranium Hexafluoride which is the basic component for ENRICHED URANIUM. In fact A Tantalum coated Graphite was totally prohibited for use in Iraq since it falls under the prohibited nuclear activities per this UN document ( http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/S-2002-515.pdf pages 84 and 133 of this UN document pdf, an * next to an item means it is prohibited).
Wow, you sure can miss a lot when you don't FReep for a couple of days. This is a VERY interesting find. The media and usual suspects both here and overseas will ignore this, claiming it's not a smoking gun, just the way South Korea claims North Korea's ICBM isn't necessary to be used as a weapon so it's OK.
And we found a container labelled as cesium at one base. It was in an isolated bunker-like container and on a base in Al Anbar that hosted Iraqi biochem warfare training.
Did they really say this? That is dumb beyond belief.
Yet, to me, the book has NOT been closed. IMO the Administration stupidly jumped the gun, and any and all PR should have not been so conclusive, nor should it be today.
But then, the Administration's PR has been a disaster on just about any issue almost from the gitgo.
Leni
Yet, to me, the book has NOT been closed. IMO the Administration stupidly jumped the gun, and any and all PR should have not been so conclusive, nor should it be today.
But then, the Administration's PR has been a disaster on just about any issue almost from the gitgo.
Leni
The media SHOULD be paying attention: a neutron generator+a highly radioactive "source"+Tantalum coated graphite=nothing short of bomb building.
A mixture thereof of Tantalum and Graphite is PROHIBITED. In this case we have Tantalum Coated Graphite, that is absolutely “Prohibited”.
One little involuntary pre-coffee thumb-spasm and the Double-Post Monster strikes immediately and without mercy.
Leni
Bump!
LOL!
I agree that the administration gave up the WMD fight very early. As I said to find the WMD or program related to it must require a long time and much harder work, the ISG did take the right time to do so. The administration was under a lot of pressure to accept the findings of the ISG. I hope that the great news that has been coming from Iraq lately will encourage them to open the subject of WMD again.
Not sure if this has come up- but hasn't David Kay been completely off the radar since his report? It may not be significant- but it just seemes odd.
I *might* have a picture of this, but I somehow lost some before I left country. But I still have the pics of DMS (actually posted once on FR). And one to make you laugh, if I can find it, is a pic of a container of "red mercury".
I think that Saddam was looking for a "doomsday" weapon and his top aids were afraid to dissappoint him.
Sorry, but no it's not. The neutron "source" described is of no use whatsoever in nuclear weaponry. It's standard technology in any nuclear research.
The administration took a serious pounding on it that won't be soon forgotten. Even now, the media will accept nothing less than the famous "smoking gun"....though when it IS found, the media and rest of the left will claim it was planted by the Americans to protect the administration or that it's a pre-Gulf War weapon. We all know the drill and the tactics they'll use.
OK, if you say so. I'm getting a lot of conflicting information.
Thank you very much for your service.
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