Volume 1 - Iraq Watch

• The term “Trade Office” was used internally, butwhen dealing with the outside world, the name“Technical Consultation Company” was used.• The Trade Office fell organizationally under Khudayiral-Mashadani, the head of the Special Office,M1, but Walid Hadi reported directly to Tahir JalilHabbush al-Tikriti, the head of the IIS, according toan Iraqi official.The M4/8 directorate operated several front companiesin Syria. To manage these companies, the directoratewas broken down into three sections, includingcommercial, accounting, and liaison sections. Theliaison section coordinated activities between thecommercial and the accounting offices. Some of thecover companies operated by the directorate includedAl-Riat, Al-Manuria, and Al-Enbuah.The IIS used companies that had contact withthe outside world as a means of collecting foreigncontact intelligence. The organization owned andoperated a front company called Al-Huda ReligiousTourism Company. Al-Huda was also known as theAl-Dhilal Religious Tourism Company, and wasestablished after the conclusion of the Iran-Iraq warand subsequent exchange of prisoners.• The company’s ostensible purpose was to transportreligious tourists to holy places in Iraq, such asSamara, Karbala and Najaf.• The IIS created the company as a way to gainaccess to the Iranian tourists once they were withinIraq and collected information through casual illicitation.• All of the employees of the company were IISemployees.Analysis Laboratory (FEAL), conducted food stufftesting but there is no evidence to date that FEALused illicit channels to procure equipment for Iraq.• Amir Ibrahim Jasim al-Tikriti, a member of theSSO and a relative of Saddam, was sent to Polandin 2000 to work on his doctorate in mathematics.Although there he procured Volga engines andbatteries on behalf of the IIS for Iraq, according toclaims. The same source stated that this procurementrelationship was largely a result of Amir’srelationship to Saddam and not because of his SSOaffiliation.• After Abd al-Tawab Mullah Huwaysh became MICDirector in 1997, he decided that the SSO had notechnical expertise and therefore had no procurementrole with the MIC.SSO Procurement Leadership and MissionAlthough the SSO, under the direct supervision ofQusay Saddam Husayn al-Tikriti, may have played asmall role in procurement outside of the country, itis more likely that the SSO’s role in the procurementprocess was limited to securing illicit shipments onceinside Iraq. Senior members of the Regime, such asAbid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the former presidentialsecretary, were probably aware of this role for theSSO, but were most likely not directly involved in theprocess. SSO officials were also in charge of monitoringthose involved in the procurement process,like the RG and SRG, to ensure their loyalty to theRegime was maintained.• According to authorization and shipping documents,between 1993 and March 2003, the StateCompany for Marketing Drugs and Medical Appliances,Kimadia, shipped dual-use chemicals andculture media to Iraq’s SSO. The items were suppliedto SSO’s Walid Khalid.Special Security OrganizationISG has found little evidence that the SSO was usedto procure WMD materials, prohibited or dual-usegoods. This finding is consistent with the SSO’smission of domestic only operations and inherentprimary mission of securing Regime sites and leadersand monitoring the citizenry to ensure loyalty. TheSSO associated laboratory, the Food Examination andIraqi Atomic Energy CommissionAccording to multiple Iraqi sources, the IAEC wasresponsible for the development and retention ofnuclear expertise in Iraq. The IAEC most likely reliedon its own procurement department for acquiringmaterials and technology.82