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Saddam Hussein — Part 1
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On July 12, 1988, Army Chief of Staff Headquarters
forward the above-described instructions to the Fifth Corps
Headquarters via letter #RAG/22/804 and advised them to take the
necessary procedure. [attached as document #XxX]
Declassified satellite imagery from the Anfal pericd,
listed as evidence in support of this Prosecutive Report,
illustrate impact craters, the use of multiple rocket launchers
and towed artillery, as wellq the complete razing of Kurdish
villages.
Final Anfal
Report #16093, dated December 13, 1988, from Branch 3,
Section 1, Qadissiyat Saddam (operational name for the Iran-Iraq
War) to the General DMI, Branch 3, provided Iragi source
information and made direct reference to chemical attacks
conducted by Iragi forces in Badinan during the Final Anfal from
August 25, 1988, to September 6, 1988. The document Stated, in
pertinent part:
-..Six British journalists arrived in the
triangular border region of Iran, Iraq and
Turkey to see the saboteurs who had come from
the above sector via Turkish territory and
interview them about the chemical strike
undertaken by our forces. [attached as
document #Xx]
Badinan, the traditional mountainous heartland of
MULLAH BARZANI and his sons, is located in the Dohuk Governate
along the Iraq-Turkey border. KDP Headquarters was located at
Zewa Shkan, an abandoned village on the border. Brigadier
General ZAREB commanded the Iraqi Fifth Corps which battled
against the KDP in the Badinan region.
In 1985, the family off | (hereinafter
| was arrested by the Iraqi government and deported from
Ba'shiga to a make-shift house in Maraneh (near Sosya),
Kurdistan. All of his family’s possessions were seized and sold,
and his family was forced to leave with nothing more than the
clothes on their backs.
[|__| amity was just one of several families
deported and relocated by the Iraqi Government. The reasons for
the deportations varied: members of their family may have been
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