IRAQI COMMANDER MEMOIRS ON MISSILES (9)

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• Publication Date: November 29, 1998

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(U) IRAQI COMMANDER MEMOIRS ON MISSILES (9)
Identifiers:
Document Number: JN2911064098
Dates:
Date Published: 29-Nov-1998 06:45:00
Date Received: 29-Nov-1998 01:47:54
Coverage:
CIA Country Code: IRQ
Region: MIDDLEEAST
Publisher:
Agency Acronym: RESTON VA
Office Name: FBIS
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(U) SERIAL: JN2911064098
(U) COUNTRY: IRAQ SUBJ: TAKE 1 OF 2--IRAQI COMMANDER MEMOIRS ON MISSILES (9)
(U) REF: JN2611071598 AMMAN AL-'ARAB AL-YAWM ARABIC 10 NOV -- TAKE 1 OF 6 --
IRAQI COMMANDER MEMOIRS ON MISSILES (8)
(U) SOURCE: AMMAN AL-'ARAB AL-YAWM IN ARABIC 12 NOV 98 P 12 TEXT:
(U) (PART NINE OF BOOK OF MEMOIRS ENTITLED "FORTY-THREE MISSILES ON THE
ZIONIST ENTITY," BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL HAZIM 'ABD-AL-RAZZAQ, COMMANDER OF
THE IRAQI SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE CORPS DURING THE GULF WAR)
(U) (FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT) CHAPTER IV (SUBTITLE) THE BATTLE OF HOPE AND
HONOR (4) (SUBTITLE) 9 FEBRUARY 1991 (SUBTITLE) AT 0355, THE SECOND BATTERY
FIRED A ROCKET AT THE ZIONIST ENTITY. ON THE SAME DAY, I ISSUED ORDERS TO THE
FIRST SPECIAL DUTY LEGION, WHICH WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CAMOUFLAGE ROUTINE,
TO USE CAMOUFLAGE LAUNCHERS WITH A VIEW TO SETTING UP AN AMBUSH TO KILL
OR CATCH INFILTRATORS AS THEY APPROACHED THE CAMOUFLAGE LAUNCHERS ON
THE AL-QA'IM-AL-RATBAH AXIS. (THE PLAN WAS EXECUTED ON 12 FEBRUARY WITH THE
UNITS COMING UNDER DIRECT AIR ATTACK FROM 12 TO 15 FEBRUARY) 10 FEBRUARY
1991 (SUBTITLE) NO SHOOTING ON THIS DAY WE SOUGHT CLARIFICATIONS FROM THE
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT ABOUT THE PLAN CONCERNING ROADS AND BRIDGES
SPANNING THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES. I SUMMONED THE COMMANDER OF THE
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OPERATIONAL ROCKET CONTROL CENTER FOR A DISCUSSION OF MANY POINTS
CONCERNING THE ROCKET UNITS IN THE SOUTH. SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT, WE
WERE ALERTED BY THE MILITARY MOVEMENTS DIRECTORATE TO THE APPROACH OF
TWO HELICOPTERS TO WARD KILOMETER 160 JUNCTION AFTER WHICH WE DIRECTED
THAT THE UNITS TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. 11 FEBRUARY 1991 (SUBTITLE)
AT 1955 THE SEVENTH BATTERY FIRED A ROCKET AT TEL AVIV AND AT 2220 THE 15TH
BATTERY FIRED ANOTHER ROCKET AT ENEMY TARGETS IN RIYADH. AT 0200 THE
FOLLOWING DAY, I EVALUATED THE SITUATION FROM THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE
WESTERN TRANSPORTATION REGION AND DISCOVERED THAT THE ENEMY HAD
DROPPED VEHICLES AND PERSONNEL IN THE H REGION FOR WHICH WE TOOK THE
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. AT NOON THAT DAY THE ENEMY BOMBARDED THE FIRST
ROCKET MAINTENANCE CAMP IN AL-TAJI. THEY DIRECTED ANOTHER MORE POWERFUL
STRIKE THAT, WITH GOD'S MERCY, DID NOT CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE. IT IS A TRUE
BATTLE THAT ANYONE WHO TOOK PART IN COULD RIGHTLY AND JUSTIFIABLY TAKE
PRIDE. THERE YOU HAVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY IN THE WESTERN
REGION ON THE EDGE OF THE DESERT JOINING FORCES WITH THE POPULAR ARMY
AND AL-MAGHAWIR UNITS AS THEY STOOD FIRM AGAINST ALIEN INFILTRATORS AND
FORCED THEIR WITHDRAWAL AND TO BOOT KILLED A NUMBER OF THEM. THIS TIME
THEY ARRIVED WITH VEHICLES AND PERSONNEL AND TWO ARMORED CARS AND A
VEHICLE MOUNTED WITH A 106-MILLIMETER GUN. THE AL-MAGHAWIR BRIGADE TOOK
ON THOSE REMNANTS THAT TOOK FLIGHT. THE AIM OF THE INFILTRATORS WAS TO
FORESTALL OR DESTROY THE ROCKET LAUNCHERS. THE MORE INTENSE THE FIRE OF
THE AGGRESSORS GREW THE STIFFER OUR RESISTANCE BECAME AND SO WE PUT
OUR TRUST IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD AND FIRED THE 13TH ROCKET AT THE ZIONIST
ENTITY HITTING IMPORTANT SITES IN TEL AVIV. THAT WAS AT 1955. WE ALSO FIRED A
ROCKET AT ENEMY TARGETS IN RIYADH, THE 11TH SUCH STRIKE. THE ENEMY
HELICOPTERS WERE STILL LOOKING EITHER FOR THEIR PATROLS THAT HAD LOST
THEIR WAY IN THE DESERT CLOSE TO KILOMETER 160 OR FOR PILOTS WHOSE PLANES
HAD BEEN DOWNED. 12 FEBRUARY 1991 (SUBTITLE) AT 1425 THE SIXTH BATTERY FIRED
A ROCKET AT TEL AVIV, THE 14TH SUCH STRIKE AGAINST THE ZIONIST ENTITY. ON THAT
DAY THE ENEMY HIT AL-'AMIRIYAH SHELTER. RAISING MY HANDS OVERHEAD, I MADE
THIS PLEA TO GOD THE ALMIGHTY: "GOD, SHOW MERCY TO THE SOULS OF OUR
VIRTUOUS MARTYRS, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND THE ELDERLY, AND WHOEVER ELSE HAS
BEEN MARTYRED AT AL-'AMIRIYAH SHELTER. GOD, WREAK VENGEANCE ON THE EVIL
AGGRESSORS WHO HAVE COMMITTED THAT HEINOUS CRIME AGAINST DEFENSELESS
CIVILIANS INCLUDING LITTLE CHILDREN, WHO WERE SHELTERING AT AL-'AMIRIYAH
SHELTER WHERE 405 MARTYRS HAVE FALLEN." I SENSED THAT GOD THE ALMIGHTY
HAD INSTILLED IN ME ADDED STRENGTH AND THAT THAT PAINFUL SIGHT HAD
PROMPTED ME TO ASK THE COMMANDERS OF THE ROCKET BRIGADES IF IT WAS
POSSIBLE TO HIT ENEMY CONCENTRATIONS AT HAFR AL-BATIN AND DIMONA IN THE
ZIONIST ENTITY. THEIR RESPONSE WAS THAT THEY WERE READY TO HIT THOSE
TARGETS WITH AS POWERFUL A FORCE AS THEY COULD MUSTER. I SAID AT A LOUD
VOICE: I THANK GOD, THE CHAMPION OF THE FAITHFUL. I SOUGHT THE PRESIDENT'S
PERMISSION TO ORDER ATTACKS AT ENEMY TARGETS IN DIMONA AND HAFR AL-BATIN
TO AVENGE THE SOULS OF OUR VIRTUOUS MARTYRS AND HIS EXCELLENCY GRANTED
THAT REQUEST. THEREUPON I ISSUED ORDERS THAT AMERICAN CONCENTRATIONS AT
HAFR AL-BATIN BE HIT WITH SEVEN ROCKETS SIMULTANEOUSLY. I SET THE
COORDINATES AND THE TIME. I ALSO DIRECTED THAT TWO ROCKETS BE FIRED AT
DIMONA. (MORE) 12 NOV 14 FEBRUARY 1991 (SUBTITLE) WE NOTICED THAT (b)(3)
THE NEWSCASTS OF RADIO RIYADH HAD TAKEN TO ALERTING ENEMY SECTORS AS
SOON AS THEY HAD WORD THAT IRAQI MISSILES HAD BEEN FIRED AT SAUDI
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COMMANDER MEMOIRS ON MISSILES (8)
Collection: FB
Creator:
Agency Acronym: RESTON VA
Office Name: FBIS
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Language: eng
Precedence: ROUTINE
Source:
Attributions: SOURCE: AMMAN AL-'ARAB AL-YAWM IN ARABIC 12 NOV 98 P 12
Subject: --
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