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1631-HQ-1462938 The struggler comrade ALI HASAN AL-MAJID, the head of the Northern Bureau, commented regarding your mentioned letter. We have no objection to the cutting of the heads of the betrayers, but it would be better to send them to Amn for interrogation, as they may have useful information prior to their execution. [attached as document #Xx] On September 8, 1987, the DMI submitted a report Number M1/Sh3//Q2/19330 to the Northern Bureau Headquarters summarizing current Kurdish activity. The report stated: 1. At 1600 hours, on September 3, 1987, centralized artillery strikes (using special ammunition) had been launched against three sites of the Iranian Agents along the Dokan-Beera Macroon line, which included the site where the criminal JALAL TALABANI would be located. Their casualties were two killed and 12 injured from their leadership, in addition to a number of their saboteurs killed and wounded, and residents of the neighboring villages of the above mentioned sites. 4. Commentary: After the air strikes (with special ammunition) launched against of the Iranian Agents’ sites in April 1987, the mentioned group’s headquarters received a number of chemical protective equipment from the Iranian regime, in addition to the issue ofa special booklet by mentioned group. [attached as document #XX] The report was signed by SABIR AL-DURI, Director of the DMI, and copies were forwarded to the Presidential Secretary for HUSSEIN, the headquarters of the Chief of Staff of the Army, the RCC Northern Affairs Committee, Armed Forces Headquarters, and the Ministry of Defense Diwan. The April, 1987 air strikes referred to in the above- mentioned DMI report are very likely the April 15, 1987 strikes against the villages of Bergalou and Sergalou, and the April 16, 1987 strikes against Sheikh Wasan and Balisan. A cable, reference number 4350, dated September 7, 1987, from the Northern Bureau to all regional security committees memorialized the details and instructions regarding the national census that were issued during a September 6, 1987 meeting of senior Ba'ath Party officials which AL-MAJID chaired. A second version of this document is letter Number 2/237, dated 39