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° r _ 7 = x | rd - ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED *% : : @ HERE RLIS UNCLASSIFIED = * FD-302 (Rev. 106-95) . , DA ‘ 07-2009 BY §0324 uc baw/sab/rs v 7 -1- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transoription : O4/ 05/ 2004 On April 4, 2004, Ali Hasan Al-Majid (Black List_#5) was interviewed at a niilitary detention facility at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), Baghdad, Iraq. The interview was monitored by a representative of the military ic) a Detainee Cell (JIDC). FBI Language Specialist (LS) b6 rovided Arabic/English translation. Al-Majid provided the bic olIowing information: Al-Majid was questioned regarding. a letter issued by the Iraqi Ba'ath Party Northern Bureau Command, dated April 6, 1987, signed by him. Al-Majid was not shown a copy of the document as none was possessed by the interviewer. (This document is described as letter S$ Sh/18/2396 in the Human Rights Watch Report (HRW) report titled "Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against. the Kurds," dated July, 1993. It is referenced on page 13 and in footnote 41 of the Prelude to Anfal section of the report.) According to the HRW report and as read to Al-Majid by the interviewer, the letter states the following, "By the authority vested in us by the Revolutionary Command Council's decree number 160 of March 29, 1987, we have decided to authorize the chairmen of the security committees in the. northern governates to confiscate. the real and personal property of the saboteurs, ‘provided that their properties are liquidated within one month of the date of the issuance of the confiscation decree." Al-Majid acknowledged giving such authority to the security committees, but does not remember the details. The confiscation discussed applied to money as well as real’ property. However, Al-Majid stated the authority for this order was not based. on Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) decree number 160. It was based on a separate RCC decree which authorized the confiscation of funds and property of individuals who worked against the Iraqi government as saboteurs. (Al-Majid stated in a previous interview that saboteurs was a term used by the Iraqi government to describe Kurdish rebels.) This decree also authorized the confiscation of the funds and property of individuals in the Da'wa Party. These’ two: categories: of individuals were considered to be hostile or anti-Iraqi government political forces.. Al-Majid does not remember the number or date of the other RCC decree. | Investigation on 04/04/2004 a Baghdad, Iraq . File # 315R-HOQ-1448534 ~ 9¢. Date dictated 04/05/2004 b6 - - . b7IC hy | eli : This, document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.