Saddam’s Prohibited Weapons Programs

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Jveritas from Free Republic found another gem in the Saddam documents. This document is dated Oct 19, 2002 from the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate. In it they warn the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization that some of their projects are prohibited while other’s require constant monitoring. The document also talks about a project to rehabilitate an old building where the Iraqi’s used to produce Tetra Uranium Chloride and Hexa Uranium Fluoride (UF6).

The document talks about an agreement to adopt one of the suggestions to rehabilitate this building and rebuild the HOT CELLS. The project was later cancelled in November 2002 mainly because the UN inspectors started their work again in Iraq. Another prohibited project shown in this document is the “Simulation Reactor”

The “Simulation Reactor” was written about in a previous document which described the Iraqi regimes attempts to rebuild the reactor which Israel destroyed in the 80’s and make a “simulated” reactor. Check that one out here.

Here is the latest document:

Beginning of partial translation of document CMPC-2004-000156.pdf

In the name of God the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

The 10 years Plan Committee

Date: 19/10/2002

Mr. Chairman of the Department

Subject: 10 Years Plan

Attached are the remarks of the Scientific Policies and Programs department/ the Monitoring division in regards to the 10 Years Plan developed by you. Please be informed and make the appropriate adjustment within two days from the above date.

With regards

Remark: The list of contracts with the private and common sector are subject to the attached remarks

Signature

Samir Hussein Aouni

Chairman of the 10 Years Plan Preparation Committee.

19/10/2002

3. Engineering Department

A. The projects below are considered prohibited because it is related to nuclear activities that are prohibited according to resolution 707.

Project (3) for the year 2003 designated “Building of Simulation Reactor”.

Project (12) for the year 2003 designated “Rebuilding of the old Radioactive Isotopes production building” and continues till the year 2007 with the sequence 12, 10, 9, 1 consecutively.

B. Project that are under constant monitoring

Project (7) for the year 2003 designated “Develop and rehabilitate the laboratories and systems of the Electronic Microscope.

Project (10) for the year 2004 designated “Central Measurement Laboratory for the radioactive waste and continues till the year 2006 with sequences 3, 7.

C. The projects below may lead to explanations because it requires the determination of the qualifications

Project (14) for the year 2004 and designated “building the Magnets laboratories and workplace and was mentioned for the year 2007 per the sequences 13, 13, 5”.

Project (14) for the year 2005 designated “building laboratories for the high vacuum (pressure vacuum) and mentioned per the sequences 12, 6.

End of partial translation of document CMPC-2004-000156.pdf

As usual, this is no smoking gun, but taken together with the ton’s of other documents I have already highlighted and posted about you have to come away suspicious that Saddam did indeed make a concerted effort to restart his WMD program. He was just waiting for his buddies, the Russians and French, to get those sanctions pulled.

Guess he didn’t count on Bush being in office.