A news story written by Gwynne Roberts back in 2001 about a possible Saddam nuclear test detonation in the Lake Rezzaza region of Iraq in 1989 was widely and vociferously discredited by nearly all news agencies, but especially by the Left. Based on that story and other research, I wrote a narrative in 2004 that depicted the probable sequence of events that lead to this test. (To understand the rest of this article, first read my narrative.) Neither the Roberts story nor my narrative have ever been confirmed. Now, new evidence has appeared in the form of translated documents from the thousands of pages captured by American forces in Iraq that appears to lend credence to these stories.

Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7, 2001, has been partially translated by a person identified as jveritas, and appears on several websites dedicated to distributing these documents. Most of the focus on this document is on a discussion in the upper echelons of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves were the result of massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm. This document specifically discusses how to give CNN priority coverage of the story, so it will have an effect on the international arena.

The translation that follows is of the first part of the document, which focuses on the graves and the CNN angle. The rest of the three-page document was not translated by jveritas, but he relates that it describes further details of the deception on how to make big military funerals for the people in the mass graves, and how high level state officials would participate in these funerals.

Here is the text of the Partial Translation:

The Republic of Iraq
The Intelligence Apparatus
Date: 7/2/2001
No 1687

In the Name of God the Merciful the Most Compassionate

Secret

To: The respectful Mr. Director of the Fourth Directory

Ref: Your letter secret and immediate numbered B 264 on 2/4/2001

1. No information is available to us about the Mass Graves in the Southern Region.

2.We seek to achieve the observation the following matters:

A. Inspect the graves to confirm the existence of Nuclear Radiations.

B. Were they buried alive or their death was by suffocation.

C. Are they military personnel or civilians.

D. Are there tombstones that carry the names of the martyrs

E. Identify accurate marks and proofs of the graves and the possibility to reach it quickly and identify it.

3. We do not agree that the declaration about it through a direct Iraqi media in the first stage at least and not to cause public and party reaction so that the subject will take as a priority an international interest, and we should work on the following direction during this stage:

A. Leak the news through reliable sources, News agencies or Satellite stations, and that there is confusion, and indications from the members of the Coalition forces about the existence of mass graves civilians and military personnel in the South of Iraq.

B. The attempt to search for soldiers from the Coalition forces in a serious way to mention these truth through the agencies.

C. Ask some of the friendly countries with good technology to find these graves and for sure it will be asked from some news agencies in these countries to humanly participate in this effort and in case it is discovered there will be media reactions internationally and foreign and this media must be given a big space to repeat it and leak it to take its natural form of influence on the countries that made this bad deed and give it to the international general opinion.

D. Not to dig these grave by the Iraqi side, and it is possible to make a dialog with the CNN channel to give them a priority on this subject to have an influence over the international arena and it will be accepted more than the Iraqi media.

End of Partial Translation

The key information here is the request to "confirm" the presence of suspected radioactive contamination of the grave site and the bodies, and that the site is in "Southern Iraq."

The story told by Roberts, and relayed in my narrative, is that the workers at the Lake Rezzaza site (some 80 miles southwest of Baghdad) were contaminated and subsequently buried in mass graves nearby. This document specifically refers to mass graves in Southern Iraq, and brings up the subject of radioactive contamination.

Furthermore, the original story referred to a 4th Directory, unknown at that time, that was in charge of the nuclear research. This document is addressed to the "Director of the Fourth Directory."

The document is authentic, and the translation appears true to the original text. While not conclusive, it certainly opens up the door to further investigation of what really happened near and under Lake Rezzaza back in 1989. It is no longer so far-fetched that Saddam may actually have detonated a nuclear devise with parts supplied by the collapsing Soviet Union for a badly needed cash infusion.

A direct consequence of this possibility is that Dr. Khalid and his colleagues really were able to construct three Hiroshima-type bombs. Dr. Jafaar and his group, with technical help from the Russians and French, along with plans purchased in the United States, really did complete construction of three implosion-type bombs with significantly greater kilo-tonnage. And during the mid-1990s, they really did complete three tritium-boosted thermonuclear bombs, and that they are all presently stored in a deep underground bunker hidden in the Hemrin Mountains.

Even if the reality of this is remote, we need to pay attention to, and follow up on, the real possibility that the Hemrin Mountains still contain their deadly secret, just awaiting the right time to appear.