◆ SpookStack

1631-HQ-1462938 a special channel of communication with him. That evening I went to Suleimaniyeh and hit them with the special ammunition. That was my answer. 'I will attack it with chemical weapons.' and 'I will kill them all with chemical weapons!!' Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck them! The international community and those who listen to them. [Tape 2A segment marked approximately 21:59 to 26:44] AL-MAJID is presumably referring to the April, 1987 chemical attack on the PUK headquarters in the Jafati Valley. AL-MAJID also listened to the following portion of Tape 2B: I will not attack them with chemicals just one day, but I will continue to attack them with chemical weapons for fifteen days. [Tape 2B] We will surround them in a small pocket and attack them with chemical weapons. I will not attack them with chemicals just one day, but I will continue to attack them with chemicals for 15 days. After listening to Tape A, AL-MAJID stated, "This tape has been altered" and that "this tape is not correct." He claimed the audiotape had been "assembled" from tapes of two different meetings; one meeting in the first half of 1988 and the other in Mosul on March 30, 1991. AL-MAJID admitted that the audiotape A was a recording of his voice and his words at a meeting with Ba'ath Party Section officials and Governors of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan on April 15, 1987. AL-MAJID stated that his statements were attempts at "psychological warfare" against the enemy in the beginning of the campaign against the saboteurs in the Northern Region. His words were meant as a scare tactic similar to what was later used in Dohuk. In AL-MAJID's opinion, the saboteurs would be "weakened by words." Logistically, they would later be weakened by their forced separation from the cities. [AL-MAJID interview, April 9, 2004] AL-MAJID said he personally inspected Suleimaniyeh and it had not been hit. He added that he never heard of such an attack, particularly with chemical weapons. He stated he did not order a chemical weapons attack on TALABANI and his headquarters in the Jafati Valley near Suleimaniyeh. He claimed he actually went to Suleimaniyeh to meet with TALABANI, and that the words 22