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Translation 1603917
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In this document, dated a few months before the American invasion of Iraq, details of a meeting between French and German Representatives with the Iraqi intelligence unit.
These fine allies assure Saddam (via his intelligence service) that they are totally against an American invasion of Iraq.
There is also discussion of movement of WMD's to Syria between French, German and Chinese representatives. The determination of whether Iraq moved their weapons to Syria is not clear.
Saddam Regime Document Dated January 2003: The French and German Connections
In this document ISGZ-2004-028179 there is a report by the Assistant of the Iraqi Intelligence Director to his boss "The Director" dated January/23/2003 regarding the visit of one German and one Frenchman to Iraq and these two guys talk about their strong relation with the top government officials in both France and Germany. In this letter the German that German Chancellor Schroeder was totally opposed to the idea of the war in Iraq and it his opposition to the possible war that made him win the German elections held in 2002. Also there is an important part of the letter where it mention the visit of German Chancellor to meet with the Chinese Prime minister and that the Chinese PM told Schroeder "about the information that was obtained by the Chinese intelligence and it says that Iraq has moved his mass of destruction weapon to Syria and the German Chancellor told him that the German intelligence did not indicate this. And after two days the US state secretary went to Damascus to check on this with the Syrian government that in turn denied this news." Also in the letter it show the fear of the French to join the war because of the heavy losses that will suffer..
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