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* a » FD302a Rev. 10-6-95) - , . wv _ 315E-HQ-1448534 ConfinwatinoffD3Mef AL GHasan Al-Majid “,0n 04/04/2004 Page ; Al-Majid was questioned regarding an order issued by him to the Security Directorates of the Northern Bureau directing the execution of all "first-degree relatives of criminals." Al-Majid was not shown a copy of two. documents referencing this order as ' neither was possessed by the interviewer. (The two documents are described as-a handwritten note, dated November 20, 1989, from the Security Chief, Interrogating Officer, Amn Office in Suleimaniyeh to an Iraqi citizen and letter number 106309, dated May 1, 1987, from the Security Directorate of the Autonomous Region. These documents ate referenced in the previously described HRW report: dated July, 1993, Prelude to Anfal section, pages 13-14.) According to the HRW report and as noted to Al-Majid by the ’ interviewer, the handwritten note provides a response to an Iraqi citizen's request for information regarding his missing parents and brother. The note states that the brother was executed July.12, 1987 as "a member of the group of Iranian saboteurs." The note. further explains that the patents were executed May 19,° ‘1987 "in compliance with the order from the Struggling Comrade Ali Hasan Al-Majid, member of the Regional Command. [of the Ba'ath Party], that was relayed to us by letter number 106309 of the Security Directorate of the Auténomous Region, dated May 1, 1987, regarding the liquidation of first-degree relatives of criminals. " Al-Majid stated that he did not issue an order ‘to execute the first-degree relatives of saboteurs. In July/August, 1987, he did, however;. order the "deportation" of the first-degree relatives of saboteurs to the prohibited areas, Al-Majid issued this order to ensure the security of the cities. He was responsible for the security of the cities and areas within five kilometers of the. cities. First-degree relatives included only the fathers of the saboteurs. It did not include the female relatives such as an individual's mother, sister, or daughter. . As previously described, prohibited areas were those regions where the Iraqi government had already removed the citizens and relocated them to government housing complexes. The order’ regarding deportation of first-degree relatives. was intended to force fathers’ to control the actions of their sons. After the "gathering of people" into Iraqi government housing complexes, Al- Majid stated any acts of sabotagé against the government would result in implementation of this order. Al-Majid wanted the sons who were saboteurs, and the consequences of their actions, to be-a "pressuring factor" on the fathers. Al-Majid ordered first-degree relatives only to be deported to prohibited aréas so that the security committees did not expand the order to include other