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* FD-302a Rev. 10-6-95) & Y 315E-HQO-1448534 Continuation of FD:3020f __-_ Ali Hasan Al=Majid _ 01 04/09/2004 _, Page authenticity of this document. He stated that if chemical’ weapons had been used in Iraq, particularly in the northern region during this time, "We would have heard. No such thing can be hidden." Al-Majid was shown and read a portion:of a copy of a document in Arabic, described as cover letter number Q3/Qadissiyat Saddam/404, dated June 26, 1988, and an attached report from . Captain Kifah Ali Hassan, Director of the Intelligence Center of Kalar to the Subdirectorate of Military Intelligence, Eastern Sector (Sh3). The cover letter states, in part, "Enclosed is the . quarterly report about the saboteurs' movements within our sector during the first half of 1988. Please be informed." On page six, ' paragraph b, the attached report states, "During the month of March, 1988, our aircraft bombed the headquarters of the sabotage - bands in the villages of Saywan (4596) and Balakajar (4294) ina chemical strike. This resulted in the death of 50 saboteurs and the’ wounding of 20 other saboteurs." (The copy of this document was obtained from the previously described HRW report dated February, 1994. It appears on pages 49-52 of the report. According to the HRW report, the numbers appearing in parenthesis in paragraph b are coordinates given to the villages by the military.) Al-Majid denied knowledge of this document or the events described in it. Hé stated that this report should have, been forwarded to the Northern Sector, Al-Majid's assigned location. Al-Majid doubts the authenticity of this document. He added, "I am certain chemical weapons. were not used in the northern or southern sectors of Iraq, only in Halabja." According to Al-Majid, the Iraqi government's use of chemical weapons in Halabja was directed against Iranians. He ewphasized, "If I. used them, I would admit." Al-Majid was shown and read a portion of a copy of a document in Arabic, described as cover letter number $h3/Q1/Qadissiyat Saddam/16093, dated December 13, 1988, and an attached report from the Subdirectorate of Military: Intelligence, Eastern Sector, to the General Directorate of Military Intelligence (Sh3). The cover letter states, in part, "The following is the information that we received from source number 202 about the sabotage movements:" Page five, paragraph 10a, states, "After the - expulsion of the saboteurs of the First Section of. the Barzani band in the Badinan Sector by our forces during the Final Anfal operation, six British journalists arrived in the tri-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