1999, 2000 Iraqi memos: Procurement of 50000 Aluminum Tubes That Can Be Used For URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Remember those infamous aluminum tubes? Tubes found by the Iraq Survey Group which use could not be determined?
Recall that the Saddam-lovers/America-haters did not want to admit that these tubes could be have been intended for use in a nuclear reactor. The ISG decided that the tubes could have been used either for uranium enrichment OR for conventional missiles.
It cannot be emphasized enough that in either case, U.N. sanctions prevented Saddam from getting control of these tubes whatever their intended use. It was odd that the world initially shrugged over the discover of, count 'em, 50,000 of these things, as just shells for conventional missiles. There was much speculation that these tubes were meant to be used to enrich uranium but the ISG did not want to make this decision assertively and instead referred to them as "dual use technology". Dual use technology was also forbidden by the U.N. sanctions.
So Saddam was out and about and buying parts either for fifty thousand missiles or uranium enrichment, take your pick. Either one was forbidden yet the lovely Saddam wanted them enough to pay top dollar for them.
Also note that the company from which Saddam purchased these aluminum tubes is a front company for Syria's nice dictator, Assad.
The translator proposes combining this translation with previous translation 1620262. In this translation we discovered that Saddam had plans for resurrecting parts of the Osirus reactor that had been bombed by the Israelis. The dates of the memos are close, first the memo about resurrecting the damaged Osirus reactor now this memo about purchasing these many aluminum tubes comes out around the same date.
Saddam was simply up to no good and each translations documents his intent and it was not good.
Translation 1620565
Harmony Document PDF file for Translation 1620565
This document CMPC-2004-004404 contains memos dated from 1999 and 2000 about Saddam regime procurements of 81 mm in Diameter, 900 mm in Lenght HIGH STRENGTH AND HIGH QUALITY ALUMINUM TUBES. As many of you know the issue of 81 mm High Strength, High Quality Aluminum Tubes were subject for an intensive debate since 2002 because this type of tubes can be used in GAS CENTRIFUGES FOR URANIUM ENRICHMENT. Although the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said in its final report in 2004 the following about the procurement of these tubes “ Baghdad’s interest in high-strength, high-specification aluminum tubes—dual-use items controlled under Annex 3 of the Ongoing Monitoring and Verification Plan as possible centrifuge rotors—is best explained by its efforts to produce 81-mm rockets”. However the ISG could not prove definitively that these very special tubes were not used as part of Saddam Regime attempt to build its Nuclear Programs and Projects (see link to ISG report http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap4.html#sect6). In fact the ISG in its report says also the following “ The limited information found by ISG that ties Iraqi nuclear entities to the tubes also appears related to the 81-mm rocket program and the ISG report also says ” Purported high-level interest in aluminum tubes by Saddam and Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister—a potential indicator of a program of national importance, such as a centrifuge program.. A 6 March 2003 letter from the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate (NMD) to the IAEA’s Iraq Nuclear Verification Office (INVO) notes that the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) conducted material composition testing on a sample aluminum tube in early 2001 and In another translated memo “http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620262/posts ” that talks about a secret project by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission to re-instate the “Nuclear Reactor Simulators” using equipments from the “Old TAMUZ (OZIRAQ) Nuclear Reactor”. All this is a clear indication of Saddam intent to restart the Nuclear Programs.
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