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‘FD-302a (Rev. 10-6:95) - , | Continuaionofrpsmer ___ Sabir Abd Al Aziz Husayn Al Duri 4, 06/03/2004 315E-HQ-1448534, adviséd areas. outside of Majid's responsibilities would have been given to the military. The military was also responsible for removing the Kurdish population in the Northern. Region, and the Governors in each of those areas were responsible for relocating the displaced Kurds. Each Governor was responsible for reporting’ directly to Majid. Sabir viewed twenty-five pages of documents in Arabic -which céntered around the time frame of 1987 involving pre-Anfal and Anfal Campaign activities. The copies. of documents describe ‘correspondence between. different entities within the Iraqi Government involving the use of "Special Ammunition" in the Northern Region of Iraq.. Sabir acknowledged that Special ‘ Ammunition was. a term used by the Iraqi government to represént Chemical Weapons (CW). Sabir doesn't remember each and every document, however, ‘did verify his signature on the bottom of several of ‘the documents,, and thus concluded they were authentic. (A copy of the twenty-five pages of documents viewed by Sabir, and the accompanying English translation will be maintainéd in a FD-340/1(A) envelope and marked as Document #'s 3 & 4). ae While viewing the copies of documents, and upon verifying his signature, interviewing agents observed the following physical changes in Sabir. Sabir started to profusely perspire, his facial characteristics. dramatically changed, and. his lower lip began to uncontrollably quiver. Additionally, after explaining the April 16, 1987 chemical weapons attack on the. villages of Balisan and Sheikh Wasan, Sabir's eyes began to tear. Sabir stated that decisions made by President Saddam Hussein to utilize CW directly -led to the deaths of the men, women, and children in ‘those villages. The original. plan to use CW was formulated in 1986 when it was ‘perceived that Irag was losing the war, which. was due in part to the loss of the Faw Peninsula to Iranian forces. Sabir believes the general consensus was that the Iraqi forces needed a small ‘victory to boost their confidence and continue fighting the war with Iran. The. idea to utilize CW against Iran during the war was originally brought up by his subordinates within the Istikhbarat. The Istikhbarat's primary mission was’ to defeat and expel the Iranian forces, and not utilize the CW against innocent civilian populations which included women and children. Sabir advised the Istikhbarat was responsible for collecting information , Page 3