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Instructions and Recommendations for
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Top Secret
18th Infantry Division Command
Administration and Supplies
"Supplies"
Number: M/28/83
Date: 13 Rab'ih 1 1410
13 October 1989
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Instructions and Recommendations for
Classifying, Sorting and Transferring Military
Documents
Reference the Administrations top secret letter number 3396
of 1 October 1989:
1. Enclosed is a copy of the instructions and
recommendations for classifying, sorting and transferring military
documents after making the necessary modifications to them in
compliance with the documents preservation law number 79 of 1983.
2. Previous instructions are recommendations are superseded.
3. Act in accordance with the enclosed instructions
effective 1 October 1989. Please take the necessary action in
compliance with the same.
Encl.
1. Copy of instructions and recommendations for classifying,
sorting and transferring military documents
(A.B.C.D.E.F.)
A facsimile
(Signed
Colonel Nazzar Karam Henein
for Commander, 18th Infantry Division
Rabi'h 1 1410 H
October 1989
(1-1)
Top Secret
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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Instructions and Recommendations for Classifying, Sorting and
Transferring Military Documents:
1- The Department of Archives is concerned with classifying,
ordering and safeguarding archives items (documents and data) for
easy access when needed. Since the Ministry of Defense is one of
the State's departments and organizations, it must have a branch
whose sole responsibility it is to ensure the enforcement of law
number 70 for 1973( they mean 1983), which deals with how to
safeguard documents.
2- This responsibility has been assigned to the Directorate of
Military Documents as the center of documents in the Ministry of
Defense. Its function is to collect, organize and safeguard all
military documents which deal with the doctrines, heritage,
rights, material and (illegible) properties of the Iraqi Army, and
which are ten years old or more since they were created. The
purpose is to preserve the history of the Army, the rights of
individuals and safeguard public funds.
3- Law number 70 for 1983 has classified the documents of the
State of Iraq into financial, technical and administrative
documents. On this bases the documents have been sorted into four
groups: first group, second group, third group and fourth group.
4. In view of the secret nature of the military establishment 9
i.g., security, security of information, its importance, etc.),
the nature of its activities, and the "outlets" its units
interface with, its documents have acquired a special and peculiar
characteristic, and have therefore been classified into three
groups (refer to attached Appendices A.,B. and C.) as follows:
a. Type A Documents: These refer to the documents maintained
by a specific unit for 10 years because of their importance to the
unit and the need for them. These are then transferred according
to the instructions on Form (1) at the attached Appendix D after
they have been sorted and classified to the Directorate of
Military Documents where they are photocopies and maintained in
the directorate's depots. An example of these documents is the
document hand-written by the President and Commander in Chief (May
God preserve his life) during the recent victory battles. This
document, even though its content is now known to all, is
classified as type A because of its importance and historic and
heritage value. As you can see, there is no correlation between
the degree of secrecy and how a document is evaluated.
b. Type B Documents: These are the documents which are
maintained by a specific unit for ten years because of their
importance and the need for them. They re then transferred
according to Form number (1) after being sorted and classified to
the Directorate of Military Documents where they are photocopied,
destroyed and burned after one year.
c. Type C Documents: These are the documents for which
there is no need any more after they have been photocopied or
after the passage of the time ceiling ( from 1-5 years), or
according to the unit's need for those documents and based on the
assessment of the support committees and others. The documents
are then destroyed (burned) according to the procedures for
destroying Type C documents, which are detailed at the attached
Appendix (D?), after they have been endorsed by the Main Committee
and the unit itself.
[page 108 continued]
5- As a general rule, all incoming books are treated as Type C
documents because they have already been classified by the
originator. Only outgoing documents are evaluated by the
originator. Outgoing documents
are dealt with at the origin. Incoming documents classified as
Type C are dealt with as follows:
a. They are handled as Type C incompliance with Law number
70 for 1983.
b. The unit may retain the instructions, recommendations and
orders which are indispensable as basic items referred to for mail
circulation purposes for long periods of time. They are
maintained and controlled by the office managers and staff
officers. When the officers in charge are transferred, the
documents should be received and handed over following the proper
procedures and hey should be checked by the unit commander. This
is also applied to all matters related to the unit's heritage,
such as pictures, etc. These can be maintained by the Political
Orientation officers and handled in the same manner as mentioned
earlier.
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6. Document Evaluation Committees: A. The Main Committee: This
committee is established at the headquarters of the Ministry of
Defense, in the Office of the Army Chief of Staff, the
headquarters of the directorates, the Air Forces and Air Defense
Command, and the Command of the Naval Forces. They are chaired by
the permanent secretaries of state or the most senior staff
officers in the headquarters, directorates, the Air Forces and Air
Defense Command, and the naval Forces Command. At the corpses'
headquarters they are chaired by the directors of management. The
responsibilities of this committee include:
1) Endorsing Form number (1) for transferring the documents
for the Support Committees through the subsidiary committees.
2) Issuing orders for depositing the documents which are 10
years old or more with the pertinent units which will then
transfer the documents to t he Directorate of Military Documents.
3) Approving the support committee's request for destroying
Type C documents according to the attached Appendix D. Its
endorsement of Form 1 amounts to an official approval.
4) Ensuring that the subsidiary committees implement the
instructions and orders which are issued for complying with the
document safeguarding law number 70 for 1983.
b. The Subsidiary Committee: This committee is set up in
the headquarters of divisions, directorates, brigades and
equivalent army formations. Its responsibilities include:
1) Approving forms (1) which it receives from the support
committees, and which in turn it turns over to the Main Committee.
2) Holding periodic meetings to study problems and
difficulties related to work and propose solutions to those
problems to the Main Committee.
3) Following up on the implementation of orders issued to
units and their committees for sorting and classifying their
documents and finishing up their investigations as we will see
later under items "Documents Evaluation" and "Disbanded Units."
c. The Support Committee: This committee is formed in the
headquarters of the Ministry of Defense and the Office of the Army
Chief of Staff, as well as in the directorates, corps, division,
brigade, regiment, battalion and company commands or equivalent
army formation. Its responsibilities include the following:
1) Directly overseeing the sorting, classification and
maintenance of the documents, records and files of its units.
2) Stressing the need to continue to maintain the records of
the 2nd Section orders.
3) Preparing a register as a basic item in which to enter
all files and records of the unit. The register must be properly
designed and information should be entered in it s fields as shown
in the attached Appendix D. The register must be signed by the
committee annually.
4) Following up on actions to enter records and files and
documents on Form (1) while making sure that the information
entered corresponds with and matches the information on Form (1)
above.
page 109 continued
5) Signing Form (1) and depositing it with the Auxiliary
Committee by means of a letter issued by the unit headquarters.
The letter is then endorsed and returned to the unit where it is
filed away.
6) Taking responsibility for destroying Type A documents.
This should be done in accordance with a protocol designed as in
the attached Appendix E. In this protocol are entered the codes
of symbols of files and their dates. Also responsible for
preparing documents to be destroyed in light of what is recorded
on Form (1).
7) Implementing and applying the instructions,
recommendations and orders it receives concerning the sorting,
classification and removal of documents, as well as all directives
received from the Auxiliary Committee.
8) Taking responsibility for transferring and the daily and
annual evaluation of the documents of its units, as will be
discussed in detail under item "Document Evaluation."
9) Taking responsibility for transferring documents of the A
and B types to the Directorate of Military Documents through the
chair of references (the auxiliary and main committees).
7. Document Evaluation: This refers to the outgoing documents
only for the purpose of enforcing Law number 70 for 1983, as we
have explained in item 5, para A and B above.
a. Daily Evaluation. First, it is important to enter the
remark ( degree of evaluation, that is, whether it is A, B, or C)
in the lower left-hand corner of all typed letters. Secondly, all
commanders, commandants, staff officers and those who are
authorized to sign letters must make sure not to sign any letter
lacking in the remark "Degree of Evaluation: A,B, or C) in the
lower left-hand corner of the letter. Thirdly, the document must
be evaluated by the commanders, their staff officers and the
officer responsible for editing the document by checking the
appropriate evaluation sign, as discussed above. Fourthly, there
is no relationship to the degree of confidentiality in the
documents, for evaluation as used here refers to the importance of
the document from the standpoint of heritage, the Army's material
and moral rights, as well as the rights of others.
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b. Annual Evaluation. It is known that all Army units open
their files at the commencement of each ear and place key numbers
or codes on them, then close them at the end of the same year.
These files are maintained in the offices for one or more years
depending on the nature of activity in the unit and its position
in the daily sequence of activities of the Armed Forces and the
need for those priorities (the files and documents of previous
years. Office supervisors are responsible for overseeing the
support committees in achieving the following:
First, sorting the files' documents after closing them and in
light of what has been marked in the daily evaluation of those
documents.
Second, after doing the above sorting there will be three
groups of documents in each file. These are: A group of type A
documents, a group of type B documents, and a group of type C
documents.
Third, the type C documents are packed at the end of the same
file after they are thoroughly (illegible) and a sheet of white
paper is placed on top. A description of the documents (Type C)
and their quantity are then inscribed on the sheet of paper.
Fourth, the type B documents are packed and placed next to
the divider, t he white sheet of paper on top of the type C
documents. A similar sheet of paper is then placed on top of the
documents and on it are inscribed the words "Type B Documents,"
along with their quantity.
Fifth, the type A documents are packed and placed next to the
sheet of paper for type B documents. A similar sheet of paper is
then placed on top of the documents and on it are inscribed the
words "Type A Documents," along with their quantity.
Sixth, it is probable that a section of the files may only
fit into the Type C documents. A sheet of paper is then placed on
that section and the procedure described above is followed.
Seventh, following the packing described above, the file's
documents will be returned to the same file in the form of three
groups or categories, namely, A.,B.,and C. The support committee
will then enter the information describing (?) the files in Form
1. It will specifically enter five sets of data in the proper
blocks as follows:
1) The file code and the year it was set up.
2) Name of the file
3) Total number of documents (meaning the three types:
A, B, and C).
4) Number of Type A documents.
5) Number of Type B documents.
6) Number of Type C documents.
Eighth, the Support Committee will sign Form (1) thus
acknowledging the accuracy of the information entered in the form.
The first copy will then be forwarded to the Subsidiary Committee
for signing. After that, the Subsidiary Committee will forward
the copy in turn to the Main Committee to sign then return it to
the committee through the Subsidiary Committee.
page 110 continued
Ninth, after forms (1) are signed by the Main Committee and
returned to the Subsidiary Committee and the unit, the support
committees can then destroy Type C documents according to the
following procedures:
1. The support committee, in coordination with the commander
of the unit, determines the ceiling for maintaining Type C
documents, which is bracketed between 1-5 years.
2. The information is entered in the protocol form for
destroying Type C documents, as in Appendix D, and in light of
what is recorded on the attached Form 1.
Tenth, the content of item nine above is in tune with the
provisions of article 2, paragraph 3 of Law number 70 for 1983
which deals with safeguarding documents. According to this
article, documents which are no longer useful to the concerned
departments and for which there is no longer any need shall be
sorted in order to be removed from use and destroyed after
cooperating and coordinating with the National Documents Center.
Eleventh, the term "cooperation" as mentioned in item ten
above refers to the following with respect to our military
establishment:
1. The term "departments" refers to the headquarters of
the Ministry of Defense, the Office of the Army Chief of Staff,
the corps, division, brigade, regiment, and company or equivalent,
in which the support committees are set up to be charged with the
sorting, classification and preparation of their offices'
documents for transfer to the Military Documents.
2. The phrase "in accordance with the law or
instructions" refers to law number 70 for 1983 which governs the
safeguarding of documents, or to the instructions listed above,
which are issued by the Directorate of Military Documents.
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3. The term "permanent committees" refers to the
Directorate of Military Documents which is responsible for issuing
instructions and providing recommendations for the purpose of
implementing law number 70 for 1983.
8. How to Transfer Documents to the Directorate of Military
Documents:
a. The type A and B documents are transferred from the
departments and directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the
Army units to the Directorate of Military Documents. These are
the documents which are ten years old and which have been
evaluated, sorted and classified according to the attached Form
(1). Exempted from this are the intelligence or security
documents. These are not transferred but are maintained by the
Department of General Military Intelligence.
b. All type A and B documents which are of an intelligence
or security nature and are ten years old are forwarded from the
departments and directorates of the Ministry of Defense, t he
commands and all army units and military detachments to the
Departments of General Intelligence.
c. All type A and B documents which are of an intelligence
and security nature but which do not have a security justification
and which have passed the ten year mark will be transferred to the
Directorate of Military Documents . This will depend on the
assessment and approval of the Directorate of General Military
Intelligence if it deems this to be appropriate according to the
instructions and recommendations for classifying, sorting and
transferring military documents.
d. The type A documents will be destroyed by the support
committees and with the consent of the subsidiary and main
committees in the departments. directorates, commands and
formations and after the documents hits the time ceiling for
destroying them. This will also depend on the need for the
document during the defined time period (1-5 years). There will
be no need to check with the Directorate of Military Documents in
accordance with the protocol for destroying type C in the attached
Appendix E.
9. Procedures for Units' Requesting Copies of Transferred
Documents: Providing the units with copies of their documents
which have been transferred to the Directorate of Military
Documents is achieved through a procedure called the "Information
Recovery System." It works as follows:
a. The requesting unit writes a letter addressed to the
Directorate of Military Documents detailing the following:
1) Number and date of the letter according to which the
requested document was transferred (the file).
2) The file code, address and year it was set up.
3) A description of the requested document, whether it is of
type A or type B, along with its serial number according to the
documents record maintained by the units, that is, their auxiliary
committees
B. In light of the above it is apparently clear how
important are the units' document record and the transferring form
number, without which a unit cannot recover any of its documents
page 111 continued
10. How to Enter Data in the Units' Documents Record-The Support
Committees):
a. The record is designed according to Form number 2 at the
attached Appendix No E. Accuracy must be ensured in entering the
data.
b. The data must be entered in the fields (blocks number
1,2,3 and 4 based on the information on Form (1) which is the form
used for transferring documents at Appendix D.
c. The fields or blocks 5-6 should be completed according to
whether the documents are of type A or type B, and whose
quantities are listed in Form 1.
d. When indexing the Type A documents, number (1) is assigned
to the first document. The same applies to Type B, so number 1 is
assigned to the first document and this is continued until the
last document in Type A or Type B.
The units' documents' record (support committees) and the
second copy of Form number 1 (the form used for transferring
documents) are considered basic items in any unit. The record is
maintained (illegible) committees (illegible) except in the case
of disbanding of the unit so that the units can recover their
documents which were transferred to the Directorate of Military
Documents when they need those documents.
Elements of Intermediary Documentation:
Their Responsibilities:
1) Providing assistance in checking the sorting and
classifying processes of documents.
2) Overseeing the transfer of Type A and Type B documents to
the Directorate of Military Documents.
3) Setting up rounds for coordination among the commands to
increase awareness of the importance of documentation in the
units.
4) Maintaining a record of the commands's archives.
5) Ensuring that the main committees check Forms number 1
which they receive from the subsidiary committees with which they
are associated. Providing technical assistance to those
committees before endorsing the forms.
6) Overseeing the documents records of the disbanded units
those activities have not pass ed the ten year mark and finding an
appropriate formula for maintaining the documents of disbanded
units within (illegible) the corpses and the Naval Forces
Command.
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b. As for the Air Forces and Air Defense Command and the Army
Aviation, oversight of the documentation process is done directly
by the Directorate of Military Documents as is the case with the
directorates and the branches' departments.
c. From the administrative standpoint, the elements of
intermediary documentation are affiliated with the directors of
the commands's directorates, and from the technical standpoint
with the Directorate of Military Documents.
12. The Disbanded Units: Handling the documents of disbanded
units will be as follows:
a. The support committee under the direct supervision of the
unit's commander will inventory all documents (records and files)
pertaining to the disbanded unit. It will sort and classify, and
then enter the names of all files containing the documents in Form
(1) at Appendix D then sign it.
b. All information about the documents, records and files
will be entered in the unit's records record at Appendix E.
c. Forms number (1) at Appendix D will be forwarded, after
entering the information by an official letter from the commander,
to the Subsidiary Committee to sign, then forward it to the Main
Committee for signature.
d. All documents, files and records, along with Form (1)
which has been signed by the Main Committee, will be forwarded
to the following:
1) Everything related to the dismantling of a formation at
the corps level or equivalent should be forwarded to the
Directorate of the Military Documents as the center for depositing
documents pertaining to the Ministry of Defense.
2) The records, files and documents pertaining to a
formation under a corps will be forwarded to its superior
formation. In the event that a division is disbanded, the
documents pertaining to that division will be transferred to the
elements of intermediary documentation in the corp's headquarters.
Those elements will maintain the documents for ten years, and
after that they will be forwarded to the Directorate of Military
Documents.
3) The activities listed in 1) and 2) above will receive all
documents pertaining to the operations and administrative affairs,
such as the control tables, orders of the Second Section,
promotion, transfer, courts, discharges, daily orders, retirement,
etc., while ensuring that all investigations boards pertaining to
the rights of officers and ranks have accomplished their mission,
in view of the difficulties involved in setting them up once the
documents and files of the units have been received. The purpose
is to protect the rights of the forgotten and to save effort and
unnecessary correspondence.
4) Transferring all documents pertaining to disbanded units
and which are related to intelligence, political orientation,
accounts and (illegible) as follows:
page 112 continued
a. Transferring all documents pertaining to security and
intelligence to the security and intelligence sections in the
division and corps to which the disbanded unit is affiliated. At
the corps level or equivalent the security and intelligence
documents will be transferred to the Directorate of General
Military Intelligence.
b. All documents pertaining to supplies, transportation,
sustenance, food, soils, gas and mechanical equipment to the
formation's supplies and transportation to which the disbanded
unit is affiliated. At the corps' level the documents are
forwarded to the Supplies Checking Branch (Department of the
General Military Accounts).
c. Transferring all documents related to accounts to the
Accounts Branch with which the disbanded unit is associated. At
the corps' level the documents are transferred to the Department
of Military Accounts.
d. Transferring all medical documents and field units to the
Medical Command (division, corps) with which the disbanded unit is
associated. At the corps level the documents will be transferred
to the Department of Medical Affairs.
e. Transferring all documents pertaining to political
guidance (illegible) the most senior political guidance officers
(division, corps) with which the disbanded is associated. At the
corps level the documents are transferred to the Department of
Political Guidance.
5. The activities listed above will transfer the military
documents they receive to the Directorate of Military Documents
after ten years from the date of the unit's (illegible).
6. The director of management (division, corps) will command
all units in order to make sure that they accomplish their mission
concerning the transfer of their documents and files to the
Directorate of Military Documents.
13- Handling the Documents of Restructured Units: Handling the
documents for the restructured units will be as follows:
a. The support committee under the direct supervision of the
unit's commander will inventory all documents (files and records)
pertaining to the restructured unit. It will then sort and
classify then, then enter all files containing the documents in
Form (1) at the attached Appendix D.
b. Entering all information pertaining to the documents (files
and records) in the record of the unit's documents (Form (2) at
attached Appendix E).
c. The fore-mentioned forms are forwarded to the Subsidiary
Committee for signature, and from there they are forwarded to the
Main Committee for signature. The support committee will:
1. Destroy all of the Type C documents of the restructured
unit which were created 1-5 years ago after setting up controls
for destroying Type C documents and after being endorsed by the
unit's commander and (illegible) by orders of the Section. A copy
of the controls for destroying the documents is to be forwarded to
the Directorate of Military Documents in order to be photocopied
and maintained.
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2. Type A and B documents which are 10 years old are
transferred to the Directorate of Military Documents as mentioned
in item 8 above.
13- Type A and B documents which have not passed the ten years
mark are to be maintained in the commands/formation of the
restructured unit.
14. As a rule, no destruction or sorting should be made of
documents still used in correspondence and for which no final
decision has been made.
15. The above goes into effect as of October 1989.
Please read and act accordingly.
Staff Brigadier General
Said Shukr Shaheen
Director, Military Documents
October 1989
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Type A Documents
Appendix A Concerning Instructions and Recommendations
for Classifying, Sorting, and Transferring Military Documents
These are the documents which are maintained by the concerned
unit for ten years due to their importance and the need for them.
They are then transferred using Form (1), after having been
sorted and classified, to the Directorate of Military Documents
where they are photocopied and maintained in its paper depots.
These documents are as follows:
1. Laws, regulations, orders, directives, statements and
authorizations issued by the Legal Department, as well as the
resolutions of the Armed Forces Council.
2. The documents and accounting instructions of the
Accounting and Checking Department and the accounting branches,
which are important and which involve the rights of the state and
individuals, as well as the salary cards of officers, civilians,
ranks and detailed officials.
3. The military journal "Al-Waqa'eh."
4. Orders of the Second Section.
5. The Accounting Base Record/3 and the records of safes,
accounts records and construction records.
6. The Army newspaper "Al-Asaas" in the Department of
Officers Management.
7. The books, dictionaries, glossaries, and correspondence
records from the departments, directorates, activities, formations
and units.
8. Service rosters, receipts and Blank Records (249).
9. Consumption transactions, records and telephone calls
pertaining to map priorities.
10. Militaries treaties, agreements and conventions.
11. Base records of military claims and courts of all levels
and types, verdicts, convictions and rulings.
12. Security and intelligence documents and all confidential
and secret reports on individuals and groups.
13. Arms and armament records and original vouchers.
14. War journals available to the military operations and
formations.
page 114 continued
15. Records pertaining of actual operations.
16. Formation orders for units, the cancellation of those
orders, or recording or renaming of them.
17. Basic conscription records, reserve and enlisting
records, records of issuing service cards, numbers
interpretations, and confirmation records.
18. Strengths.
19. Certificate of Iraqi citizenship, the identification
card issued by the civil records departments, and school
certificates of individuals.
20. The general policy for army housing and barracks and
the distribution of troops in peacetime.
21. Types of roads and bridges, their classification, and
any important reports about them.
22. All types of maps and charts in support of operations.
23. Record of the border guard-posts.
24. Mobilization plans in the Department of Military
Operations and the Department of Mobilization and Statistics.
25. Plans for troop concentration, approaching,
fortification and general mobilization.
26. Plans for using the land, river and air efforts of the
military troops.
27. Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare plans.
28. Plans for civil defense of vital civil areas.
29. Commandments of joint operations and situation reports.
30. Land, maritime, river and air supplies plans.
31. Land, maritime, river and air transport plans.
32. Plans for storing equipment. explosives and mines.
33. Plans for storing sample items, rescue, medical and
veterinarian items and depot plans.
34. Administrative organization plans for air and naval
bases, and for the transportation area and maintenance.
page 114 continued
35. Test results from military colleges, staff colleges, and
other colleges and schools.
36. Record of decorations and medals.
37. Employee rosters in the directorates and departments and
in the Department of Officers and Ranks.
38. The history of the Iraqi Army and its development in the
military and tactical sciences.
39. The Iraqi-Iranian war, how it flared up, the important
battles, and lessons learned.
40. The war of the north and suppressing rebellion.
41. Studies about the Iraqi military doctrine.
42. History of the armies of neighboring and foreign
countries.
43. Lessons from the war of Palestine.
44. Dams and reservoirs, irrigation projects, airports,
ports, oil facilities, deserts, and civilian facilities in the
country and high pressure lines.
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45. Issues related to earthquake and geological surveys,
mines, civil projects and regional planning.
46. Resolutions of the Higher Agricultural Council, the
Planning Council and other very important councils and committees.
47. Plans for preparing the public for war.
48. Any documents deemed very important and whether it is
feasible to split (?) some of those documents after photocopying
them by micro (?) based on the assessment of management.
49. War newspapers and journals and disbanded units whose
documents have been transferred to the Directorate of Military
Documents.
50. Investigative boards examining appeal, debt and
embezzlement.
51. Collecting the documents contained in the personal files
of retired and deceased officers and martyrs.
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Type B Documents
Appendix A Concerning Instructions and Recommendations
for Classifying, Sorting, and Transferring Military Documents
These are the documents which are maintained by the concerned
unit for ten years due to their importance and the need for them.
They are then transferred using Form (1), after having been
sorted and classified, to the Directorate of Military Documents
where they are photocopied and maintained in its paper depots.
These documents are as follows:
1. Incoming and outgoing transport lists, debt books, and
the daily census record.
2. Claims paperwork in the courts.
3. (Illegible) controls and discounts records.
4. Instructions for census operations and related forms, and
developmental issues in the Department of Mobilization and
Statistics.
5. System of the Arab armies battles after incorporating the
most recent of them in the Debarment of Operations.
6. Plans and airports projects after being completed,
whether they started from scratch or were modification projects.
7. Analysis and strategic exercises and general mobilization
plans.
8. Forms 117 and documents 102 after making sure that they
have been checked as well as the receipts for issue of weapons,
equipment, technical items and vehicles.
9. Files of the investigative boards of all types and
levels, save those dealing with debt and embezzlement.
10. Files of correspondence pertaining to warehouses,
equipment, sale of currencies and bids.
11. Records and paperwork pertaining to internal and
external contracts after an appropriate time has passed since
approval of the activity affected by the contract.
12. Records of adequate support of he wife according to
Islamic law and all files related to them.
13. Cash receipts number 37 and the like, as well as checks
and related receipts.
14. Crank transactions for weapons and vehicles.
page 116 continued
15. Files and transactions pertaining to food prepared by
private contractors and government companies and factories.
16. Documents pertaining to issue of sustenance items to
border police, the People's Army, and other organizations.
17. Documents pertaining to payment of land, maritime and
river transportation expenses and shipping expenses, as well as
payment of water, electricity and telephone bills after making
sure they have been checked, in addition to bills for fuel and
derivatives.
18. Files pertaining to debts of minors, consent settlement
of debts, and loans drawn on banks.
19. Table of food, heating, gas, oils and consumable items
after making sure that they have been checked and verified.
20. Government debt files after they have been paid in full
and checked, as well as uncollectible debts and those that have
met the fire extinction requirements.
21. Debt Files of the Department of Stores and Clubs
Directorate and the process-verbal for issuing securities.
22. Files for changing occupations, demotions, breach of
contract, re-enlisting in the Department of Ranks Administration.
23. How to secure spare parts and photocopy records.
24. Investigative boards for vehicles, weapons, precision
tools and supplies after action has been taken.
25. Issuing containers of fuel, after and fire-combat
equipment
26. Meter records and malfunction and productivity report
number 453.
27. Storing and stockpiling plans.
28. Records of gas and oil accounts (Form 555) and the
monthly journal of statements (Form 1454), and records of issuing
gas to civilian vehicles.
29. Transactions dealing with annual improvements in
directorates, departments, branches and formations.
30. List forms of allocations and daily (illegible), postage
accounting (21), the miscellaneous file, central file of
consumable items and notes about payment vouchers.
page 116 continued
31. (Illegible) sale of state property, disbanded units and
impounding and confiscation files, as well as files on
consumption.
32. Transactions for issue of supplies and incoming and
outgoing transport.
33. Transactions about stacked-up spoilage and those dealing
with returning weapons, technical items, sales, and backup
sections in units to the Central Specimen Depots.
34. Procedures for checking competence in units and
inspectors' reports.
35. Files on students' admission into military academies,
and students enrolled at the expense of the Ministry of Defense,
their getting the rank and everything related to their performance
on tests.
36. Files on granting financial aid to soldiers discharged
for health reasons, matters related to treatment overseas, and
admissions into and discharges from hospitals by officers and
enlisted personnel.
37. Files on sending military personnel overseas for study,
training materials and training costs.
38. Lists of income taxes.
39. The Second Section: Supply Checking Branch, records for
standardizing fines, and accounting branches with which the unit
is associated.
40. Files on purchases from stores and items issued to units
from those stores.
41. Practical exercises and discussions at the Staff
College's training seminars.
42. Correspondence concerning manpower and strength, and
secret and annual reports about officers, as well as rosters of
employees and inquiries about seniority.
43. Files on translation of books, training manuals and
reports on development of the corpses after their content ha been
implemented.
44. Files concerning firing ranges, the annual firing forms
and reports, and minutes for firing equipment and explosives.
45. Training courses an syllabi, activities, exercises and
demonstrations in units and orations.
46. Records on furniture an furnishing, standardization of
supplies, and the record of clothes and supplies (Form 91) and
admission cards for the Central Specimen Depots, that is, the form
used for issuing items to requesters.
[page 117]
47. Driving plans and distribution of assigned soldiers and
reserves, except the copy for the Department of Mobilization and
Statistics.
48. Files on warning military troops, morning and events
situations, statements on troop's positions and daily situation
reports.
49. The political and mass media activities, publications
and bulletins.
50. The Iranian-Kurdish activity, the Kurdish-Turkish
cooperation, as well as cooperation of the kurds in Syria.
51. Interference in the affairs of the civil authority.
52. Files on formation of companies for national defense
supporters, police brigades, and Kurdish tribes.
53. Handling the bodies of martyrs and handling captives and
the missing in military operations.
54. Orders, recommendations, and activities of the air force
and air defense.
55. Reports about internal security (security and police).
56. Floods, fires and the traffic of ships in Shatt El Arab,
as well as matters relate to naval forces.
57. Syllabi and driving training instructions and annual
practical exercises.
58. Electronic lists.
59. Handling change of residence, transfers, and corrections
of names, titles and occupations.
60. Handling absenteeism, desertion and how to chase those
who stay behind or those wo desert the service.
61. Records and tables related to import of medications and
medical tools and instruments.
62. All documents contained in the personal files of
military enlisted personnel, the retired military, the deceased
and martyrs are considered Type B documents.
63. With the exception of the documents lists in item 37 of
Appendix C, are considered Type C documents (something is missing
here. Approval has been secured to consider them Type B documents
in accordance with the notification number 2528 of 20 August 1989
from the Army Chief of Staff, which was delivered to the
Directorate of Military Documents by the Administrative Office
letter number 133055 of 21 August 1989.
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TOP SECRET
Appendix C: Instructions and Commandments
For Classifying, Sorting and Transferring
Military Documents
These are the documents for which there is no more need after
they have been edited or following their expiration date marked in
front of each of them, depending on a unit's need for them and
based on the assessment of the support committees and the
commanders. They are then destroyed according to a control form
after they have been endorsed by the Main Committees. They are as
follows:
1. Incoming and outgoing mail records in the departments,
directorates, units and formations. Approval has been obtained to
classify them as Category C per instruction of the Army Chief of
Staff number 463 of 25 July 1989, which was communicated to the
Directorate of Military Documents by the secret letter of the
Administration Directorate number 3099 of 26 July 1989.
2. Files related to expenses (?), permits for cans, barrels,
their consumption and sales.
3. Disfunction and production stations.
4. Records for entrance and exit of vehicles and forms
pertaining to those vehicles as well as form 17 for requesting use
of those vehicles.
5. Forms for daily activities of the 231 type vehicles
drivers and records for violations sustained by vehicles.
6. Cards pertaining to records, fuel, oil and derivatives.
7. (illegible) of vehicles and operating them without
meters.
8. Fills for gas containers of fire extinguisher and
instructions and measures for combating fire and floods.
9. Delivering sustenance items to depots and units and
sustenance tables at the end of one year.
10. Transactions for purchasing sustenance items at Army
expense and inventory lists of sustenance items using Form 350.
11. Approvals for use and assigning and delivering vehicles
and reserving train cars.
12. Test files for promotion of officers and enlisted
personnel and dates for nominating personnel for promotion.
page 118 continued
13. Books about ceremonies, protocols, festivities, contests
and parades.
14. (illegible) and elementary training tests.
15. Training proposals, old lectures and (illegible) foreign
books and manuals.
16. Weekly weapons,range and firing stations and requests
for preparing firing ranges and their requirements.
17. Books about charity, lottery, official holidays and
changing maintenance schedules.
18. Lists of security officers and books about control,
penalties and miscellaneous duties and assignments.
19. Books about the leaves officers, warrant officers and
civilian employees after checking their files.
20. Control records and control papers after they are
published and endorsed by the Second Section.
21. Orders of the First Section of the Units and
Investigative Boards which are scheduled to be closed and
complaints and control files.
22. Copying the promotion tables of employees, notification
lists and bonds for deserters.
23. Files on radiation tests, hospital visits, and forms for
sick leave.
24. Files on subsidies and rescheduled payment, those who
have paid the allowance and those who have passed away.
25. Files on absenteeism, desertion and investigative
boards.
26. Files on stores and units' share of supply and issues
related to military clubs.
27. Files on items advertized in the Ministry of Defense's
announcements and cancelled bids papers.
28. Records and papers for adds and urgent displays, old
catalogues which can no longer be used.
29. Instructions on how to handle manuals.
30. Files about special claims, court monthly tables and
lists of monthly support payments according to the religious law.
31. Liaison communication for operations purposes, the night
secret code and traffic tables for aircraft.
page 118 continued
32. Issues related to political guidance, conferences and
lectures.
33. Books for delivery of salaries and money transfers.
34. Control forms 462 and forms, requesting items 101,
officers service record 371, and reserve call up card 865,
mobilization form 867, mobilization and reserve form 869, reserve
service termination certificate and radiation survey card 831, as
well as statistical charts and reports and morning clinics.
35. Instructions about the operation of the generator and
how it is repaired in the army repair labs, and procedures for
inspecting weapons and technical items.
36. Books, cables, administrative paperwork which should
not be maintained any longer, such as the records deemed
unimportant by the subsidiary committees.
37. Granting leave and return from leave, transfer and
joining the service, the document for renewing the service,
penalties, control papers and orders and of the Second Section,
promotion nomination form, test results, lists of allocations, the
unit's letter according to which the request for retirement has
been forwarded to the File and Rank Directorate, the form used for
filing for retirement by military and civilian personnel.
38. Letter of the Civil Department according to which the
request for retirement and service calculation is filed.
39. Files and records of radiation (illegible) after
photographing the radiation reports by microfilm. Approval has
been secured by letter of the Ministry of Defense number 13940 on
26 June 1988, which was communicated to he Military Documents
Directorate by letter of the Administration Directorate number
9841 of 29 June 1988 for classifying them as Category C.
(11)
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Unit:
Formation
Top Secret
"Documents Transfer Form"
Appendix D: Instructions and
Recommendations for Classifying,
Sorting, and Transferring Military
Documents
Form No. 1
Serial No.
Code of
File or
Record
and Year
It was
Set Up
Name of
File or
Record
Total No.
of
Documents
in File
or Record
Degree of Document
Classification
Remarks
a
b
c
To be
photocop-
ied but
not
destroyed
To be
photocop-
ied and
destroyed
after one
year
Should
not be
photocop-
ied or
destroyed
by unit
Member Member
Head, Main
Committee
Member Member
Head,
Subsidiary
Committee
Member Member
Head,
Support Committee
(12)
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Unit:
Top Secret
"Safeguard of Unit's Documents - Support Committees"
Appendix F: Instructions and
Recommendations for Classifying,
Sorting, and Transferring Military
Documents
Form No. (2)
Ser-
ial
No.
No.
of
the
file
or
recor
d and
year
it
was
set
up
Name
of
File
or
recor
d
No.
of
docu-
ments
in
the
file
or
recor
d
Index of Type A Documents
Index of Type B Documents
Re-
marks
Seria
l No.
No.
of
lette
r
Date
of
lette
r
Sub-
ject
Seria
l No.
Lette
r No.
Date
of
Lette
r
Sub-
ject
(13)
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Top Secret
"Minutes for Destroying Type C Documents"
Appendix E: Instructions and
Recommendations for Classifying, Sorting,
and Transferring Military Documents
Serial No.
No. of File
and Year it
was set up
Name of
file or
record
No. of Type
C documents
Letter from Main
Committee
Remarks
No.
Date
We the undersigned, head and members of the Support Committee, endorse the destruction of
type C documents marked above (its files and numbers) according to the minutes and our
headquarters' letter -----of-------- and based on the endorsement of the Main Committee
reflected in its letter approving the destruction of the marked files. We have therefore
signed on / / 19 .
Member Member Committee Head I endorse
Unit's Commander
(14)
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292
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6/9/89
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A/10
Secret and Urgent
Time of Writing Date of Writing
_______________ _________________
6 Sifr H - 6 September 1989
From: Field Engineer Battalion/18
To: The Companies/1st Company
Number of Reference Letter: A/7/959/ Waw Sad (.)
Reference the secret and urgent letter 704 of 3 September
from the Command of the 18th Division (Supplies), and subsequent
to our letter number 333 of 25 March 1959. Request a speedy
sorting of the documents and setting up minutes for them, then
advise us.
(Signed)
1st Lt
For Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
6 Sifr H - 6 September 1989
Documents Evaluation : A.B.C.
6/9
Make sure the battalion has received
note of request and advise us
8/9
On hand until requested again
Secret and Urgent
Lance Corporal Fadel
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/124
Date: 16 February 1990
21 Rajab 1410 H
A/109 (crossed out)
To: Karkuk Conscription Office/3
Subject: Requesting Information
Please furnish Corporal Hussein Ahmed Hassan, a member of
our unit, with the base record number and the military number
because they are urgently needed. Please acknowledge receipt.
Born 1962
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
16 February - 21 Rajab H
Documents Evaluation "ABC"
Corporal Ahmed
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/122
Date: 16 February 1990
21 Rajab 1410 H
To: Mosayyed Conscription Office
Subject: Requesting Information
Please furnish conscript Saad Hassan Olwan, a member of our
unit, with the base record number and the military number because
they are urgently needed. Please acknowledge receipt.
Seal: Headquarters of the 1st Company
Field Engineer Battalion/18
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
16 February - 21 Rajab H
1968
312
6839312365
Documents Evaluation "ABC"
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/137
Date: 19 February 1990
24 Rajab 1410 H
Base Number: 733
Military Number: 6100806471
Seal: (illegible) Sharqiyya Conscription
Office
21 February 1990
To: Kaf. Sheen Conscription Office/1
Subject: Requesting Information
Please furnish conscript Na'im Hassan Mohamed, a member of
our unit, with the base record number and the military number
because they are urgently needed. Please acknowledge receipt.
Seal: Headquarters of the 1st Company
Field Engineer Battalion/18
Born in 1961
733
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
16 February - 21 Rajab H
Documents Evaluation "ABC"
Corporal Ahmed
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/108
Date: 10 February 1990
14 Rajab 1410 H
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Endorsing Identities
Enclosed are two identities of military personnel working for
our unit. Please endorse and advise us.
Encl.
2 Identities
For Follow Up
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
16 February - 21 Rajab H
Documents Evaluation "ABC"
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/224
Date: 26 Sha'ban 1410 H
23 March 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Request From Conscript (Military Engineer)
Enclosed is a request from Conscript (Military Engineer) Said
Eneid Said, a member of our company. This is for your
information.
Encls.
1. Request
2. Letter
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Lt. Shaker Mahmoud Abdul Rahman
Documents Evaluation "ABC"
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/236
Date: 5 Ramadan 1410 H
31 March 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Request From Warrant Officer
Enclosed is a request from Warrant Officer Gamil Kazem Aziz,
a member of our company. This is for your information.
Encl.
1. Request
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
5 Ramadan 1410 H - 31 March 1990
Documents Evaluation (A/B/C)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
247
_____
3/4/1990
_______
A/10
Headquarters
Field Engineer Battalion/18
The Administrative Office
Number A/14/602
Date: 6 Ramadan 1410 H
1 April 1990
To: The Companies (1st Company)
Subject: Checking Personnel's Identities
Please furnish the Identity Checking Committee with the
military number, along with the identification cards returned to
your company's enlisted personnel in order to be checked by the
committee . Please advise us.
To be furnished with the requested information
(Signed)
Major Rafe Ahmed Abdul Razzaq
Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Captain Sami Dawood Seliman
6 Ramadan H - 1 April AD
Furnished Copy To:
The Committee's Chairman: Captain Sami for Follow-up
Members of the Committee
1st Lt. Hosni Kazem
1st Lt. Khaz'al Rageh
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
page 130
IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
Unit/9509
Number A/10/231
Date: 31 March 1990
5 Sha'ban 1411 H
To: Traffic Department, Governorate of Diani (?)
Subject: Confirmation
We confirm that Lance Corporal Hamed Rashid Ahmed is a member
of our unit. This confirmation has been issued at his request for
the purpose of obtaining a general driver's license. With our
appreciation.
(Signed)
Major
Commander, Unit/9509
31 March 1990
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
Corporal No'man
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
To The Commander, 1st Field Engineer Company
Through The Commander of the Headquarters Group
Subject:
The undersigned, conscript (number bla) Ahmed Rashid Ahmed,
who belongs to your company, hereby request you to provide me a
letter of confirmation addressed to the Department of Traffic,
Governorate of Diali, the purpose being to obtain a general
driver's license.
I am under your order, sir.
To be forwarded to the commander
15/3
17/3
Request granted
(Signed)
Number: Bla
Rank: Conscript
Name: Ahmed Rashid Ahmed
Unit: 1st Field Engineer Battalion. Field Engineer Battalion/18
Date: 15 March 1990
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/248
Date: 10 Ramadan 1410 H
5 April 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Response
Reference your letter number 613 of 1 April 1990, we have
taken the necessary action. This is for your information, sir.
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Documents Evaluation (A/B/C)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company - Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/613
Date: 6 Ramadan 1410 H
1 April 1990
To:The Companies (1st Company)
Subject: Central Markets System
Reference letter number 511 of 23 March 1990 from the 18th
Division Command (Supplies), enclosed is a facsimile of letter
number 3/1/6574 of 25 February 1990 from the Department of
Planning and Follow-Up, the Ministry of Commerce. The purpose is
to implement the content of paragraph 4 of the same letter.
Please forward two copies of the Central Markets Form
supported by two pictures for each of the officers and enlisted
personnel for the current year 1990. Please take the appropriate
action and advise us.
Encl.
Copy of Letter
To be furnished with requested items.
(Signed)
1st Lt. Khaled Garalla Gaber
For Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
1 April 1990
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The Republic of Iraq
Ministry of Commerce
Number: 3/1/6574
Date: 30 Rajab 1410
25 February 1990
Department: Planning and Follow-Up
Section: Internal Trade
To All Ministries
Atomic Energy Organization
Legislative Council of the Self-Rule
Organization
Executive Council of Self-Rule
Iraqi Central Bank
Financial Control Bureau
Baghdad Secretariat
The General Company Affiliated with This
Ministry
Reference letter number Em/5/2/4555 of 23 Rajab 1410 H, 18
February 1990, from the Office of the President, the following has
been approved:
1) The family of the government functionary, regardless of
his position, will be allowed to shop in the central markets
located within his resident governorate.
2) The functionary who is transferred to another directorate
during the year will be allowed to retain the central markets book
issued to him, which will still be valid and not considered
cancelled.
3) The retired functionary will be allowed to transfer
ownership of the central markets book to his wife and children
during the year.
4) The new functionary hired during the year will be issued
a central markets book, for this will not have to be postponed
until the beginning of the next year.
5) The wives of the martyr will each be issued a central
markets book to use with her children.
This is for your information. With our appreciation
Mohamed Mahdi Saagh
Minister of Commerce
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
252
_____
5/4/1990
_______
A/10
Headquarters
Field Engineer Battalion/18
The Administrative Office
Number A/10/602
Date: 6 Ramadan 1410 H
1 April 1990
To: The Companies (1st Company)
Subject: Checking Personnel's Identities
Please furnish the Identity Checking Committee with the
military number, along with the identification cards returned to
your company's enlisted personnel in order to be checked by the
committee . Please advise us.
(Signed)
Major Rafe Ahmed Abdul Razzaq
Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Captain Sami Dawood Seliman
6 Ramadan H - 1 April AD
Furnished Copy To:
The Committee's Chairman: Captain Sami for Follow-up
Members of the Committee
1st Lt. Hosni Kazem
1st Lt. Khaz'al Rageh
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number A/10/247
Date: 5 April 1990
10 Ramadan 1410 H
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Response
Reference your letter number 602 of 1 April 1990, we have
taken the necessary action. This is for your information.
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/4/548
Date 15 March 1990
212
____
17/3/1990
______
A/10
To: The Companies (1st Company)
Subject: Directives
Reference letter number 1101 of 7 March 1990 from the Command
of the 18th Division, the Commander has ordered:
1. All warrant officers bear their rank insignia and that
these should be affixed to their uniforms rather than being
suspended.
2. That we be furnished with names of all non-motorized
military personnel who hold a general driver's license so that we
can enroll them in a driving training course and their MOS
(occupation) from infantry to drivers.
Please take the necessary action and act accordingly.
17/3
1) For officers' information and follow up on
warrant officers' wearing their rank insignia.
2) Make sure that the content of para 2. above
has been implemented and advise them.
(Signed)
1st Lt. Khaled Garalla Gaber
for Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
15/3/1990
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number A/10/216
Date: 19 March 1990
22 Sja'ban 1410 H
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Response
Reference your letter number 548 of 15 March 1990, what the
second paragraph of your letter calls for is not available. This
is for your information.
To be filed away (Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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Secret and Urgent
Time and Day of Writing
14/3
From: Field Engineer Battalion/18
To: The Companies/1st Company
Reference letter number A/7/126 Reh, Qaf, Sad
(1) Reference the secret and urgent letter number 1016 of 2
February 1990 from the Secretariat of the Ministry of Defense,
which was delivered through our division's secret and urgent
letter (Sheen, Alef, Ein) number 404 of 14 February 1990, which in
turn was delivered to us through letter number 791 of 17 February
from the 18th Division, the letter from the Ministry of Defense
has instructed that protection be provided by your companies of
all abandoned camps and that measures be akin to ensure that
facilities and items contained in those camps will not be
infringed on. Each will be responsible for his sector. Please
take the necessary action.
15/3
1) For officers' information
35
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14/3/1990
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A/10
(signed)
1st Lt., for Commander of the Field Engineer Battal./18
14/3/1990
Secret and Urgent
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
71
17/3/1990
A/10
Headquarters
Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/1/113
Date: 15 March 1990
To: The Companies/1st Company
Subject: Transport Lines
Reference the secret letter number 241 of 9 February 1990
from the Command of the 18th Division, approval has been secured
from the Commander of the 4th Corps for running a 44-passenger bus
on a tryout basis. The bus terminal will be at Wahb's vegetable
stand instead of Al-Basrcat intersection. The purpose of this
service is to transport our division's troops as indicated in the
table below. Please circulate to take advantage of this service.
Ser. Bus Controlling Rout Start Terminal
N0 Unit
_________________________________________________________________
1 44-pass. 6th Bus Transp. Ezeila Bus Control Wahab
bus Company Complex Basrcat Veg.
Wahab post
Control Daily Schedule
_____________________________
18th Div. From 600 hours-
2100 p.m. hours
17/2
1) For officers' information
2) To be read out to enlisted personnel
(Signed)
1st Lt. Khaled Garalla Gaber
for Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
15/3/1990
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/241
Date: 5 Ramadan 1410 H
31 March 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Request from Corporal
Enclosed is a request from Corporal Emad Mohamed Hassan, who
is assigned to our company. This is for your information.
Encls.
1. Request
2. Death certificate For the files
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
5 Ramadan 1410 H - 31 March 1990
Document Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/253
Date: 12 Ramadan 1410 H
7 April 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Request from Corporal
Enclosed is a request from Corporal Aly Hussein Farag, who is
assigned to our company. This is for your information.
Encl.
Request
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
7 April 1990
Document Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/241
Date: 5 Ramadan 1410 H
31 March 1990
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Request from Corporal
Enclosed is a request from Corporal Emad Mohamed Hassan, who
is assigned to our company. This is for your information.
Encls.
1. Request
2. Death certificate For commander's information
1/4
Should be given a week as of
as of 2 April and until 8 April
1/4
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdul Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
5 Ramadan 1410 H - 31 March 1990
Document Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
Headquarters
Unit/1509
Date: 31 March 1990
15 Ramadan 1411 H
To: The Religious Court at Atresia
Subject: Confirmation
We confirm that Lance Corporal Hganem Mahmoud Illegible) is
assigned to our unit at present. This confirmation has been
furnished him at his request for the purpose of getting married.
Respectfully,
(Signed)
The Major, Commander, Unit/1509
31 March 1990
15 Ramadan 1411 H
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
[Page 145]
IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
To: The Commander, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Through: Commander, 1st Company
Subject:
The undersigned, Corporal Emad Mohamed Hassan, who is
assigned to the 1st Field Engineer Company, hereby submit this
request for approval to be granted leave at your discretion due to
the death of my brother and cousin. I am under your order, sir.
(Signed)
For the Battalion's Commander
Request you grant him leave because
he is not in good shape and based on
the enclosed documents.
Encls.
1. Death certificate (my brother)
2. Death certificate (my cousin)
(Signed)
Number: Bla
Rank: Corporal in active duty
Name: Emad Mohamed Hassan
Unit: Field Engineer Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Date: 31 March 1990
[page 146]
1. The Republic of Iraq
Ministry of Health
Health and Life Statistics Section
2. Certificate of Death
3. Certificate Number 178589 Tah/3
Date: 29 March 1990
4. * The Deceased
1. Name and title of deceased : Fouad
2. Sex: Male
3. Nationality: Iraqi
4. Religion: Muslim
5. Profession: Government official
6. Marital Status: Single Married (checked) Widow
Divorced
7. Date of Birth 13 June 1961
8. Place of Birth: District of Matazra, Governorate of Najav
9. Permanent Residence: House number Lane Village
Area District: Makreet Governorate: Salah-Eddin
10. Place of death:
Town or village: Et-Ta'min E; Aam
Area
District: Karkuk Governorate: (illegible)
11. Date of death (in letters) Nine o'clock in the evening on
the twenty eighth of March 1990
12. Name of the deceased's father: Abdulla Ga'far
13. Name of the deceased's mother: Refaa Motayleb
14. Name of person who reported death: Meem. Sheen. El-
Riyadh
15. Relation to deceased: Investigative authority
16. Address of reporter in full: Al-Riyadh Police Station
5. Registered with the Health Authority at the General Insurance
Hospital under serial number 58 for 1990
Seal and Signature
6. 17) Medical Certificate of Death
1) Disease or condition directly leading to death
A........ (Caused by or resulting from what follows)
Sickness conditions (if any) which led to the cause
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B ....... (Caused by or resulting from what follows)
mentioned above. List the original cause
ultimately
C...................................................
2) Other important conditions which contributed to death
but are unrelated to the sickness or the condition causing
death
7. Approximate time between appearance of symptoms and death
8. 18. Death occurred at home in the hospital another
place
9. 19. I certify that the death resulted from the causes listed
above
Name of Physician
His Signature
Seal of the Health Organization
10. 20. A Forensic Medical Certificate (To be Completed by the
Forensic Physician)
I, the undersigned, Dr. Khalil Mohamed Zaher, a physician in
Forensic Medicine, have dissected the body of the deceased, which
was sent to use by police station at Riyadh, according to form
number 437 dated 29 March 1990 at 10:00 hours. We have found
death to have been caused by a hemorrhage in the head and in the
(illegible) tissues as a result of a car accident.
Seal: Directorate of the Emergency Hospital
at Al-Ta'meem - Seal of Forensic Medicine
21. Information for the Directorate of Nationality and
Civil Affairs (To be extracted from the Civil
Affairs Identification Card)
Record Number: 321 Page Number: 64161
Governorate: Al-Najaf Identification Card Number: 22201/9
To be attached to the certificate
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1. The Republic of Iraq
Ministry of Health
Health and Life Statistics Section
2. Certificate of Death
3. Certificate Number 222522
Date: 18 March 1990
4. * The Deceased
1. Name and title of deceased : Yaseen (illegible)
2. Sex: Male
3. Nationality: Iraqi
4. Religion: Muslim
5. Profession: Unemployed
6. Marital Status: Single Married (checked) Widow
Divorced
7. Date of Birth 1 July 1941
8. Place of Birth: District of Monawra, Governorate of
(illeg)
9. Permanent Residence: House number Lane Village:
Al Seray District: Monawra Governorate: Al-Najaf
10. Place of death:
Town or village: (illegible)
Area
District: ...... Governorate: .......
11. Date of death (in letters) eight o'clock in the evening
on
the eighteenth of March 1990
12. Name of the deceased's father: Eid Hassan Eid Hussein
13. Name of the deceased's mother: Fateema Hassoun
14. Name of person who reported death: Mansour Mohamed Hassan
15. Relation to deceased: Brother
16. Address of reporter in full: Heshmayet (illegible)
5. Registered with the Health Authority at the General Insurance
Hospital under serial number 58 for 1990
Seal and Signature
6. 17) Medical Certificate of Death
1) Disease or condition directly leading to death
A........ (Caused by or resulting from what follows)
Sickness conditions (if any) which led to the cause:
Chronic kidney failure
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B ....... (Caused by or resulting from what follows)
mentioned above. List the original cause
ultimately:
Breathing stopped
C...................................................
2) Other important conditions which contributed to death
but are unrelated to the sickness or the condition causing
death
7. Approximate time between appearance of symptoms and death
8. 18. Death occurred at home In the hospital another
place (checked)
9. 19. I certify that the death resulted from the causes listed
above
Name of Physician: Dr. (illegible) Saheb Mohsen
His Signature (signed)
Business Address of Physician: Saddam Teaching Hospital
Seal of the Health Organization
10. 20. A Forensic Medical Certificate (To be Completed by the
Forensic Physician)
I, the undersigned, Dr. Khalil Mohamed Zaher, a physician in
Forensic Medicine, have dissected the body of the deceased, which
was sent to use by police station at Riyadh, according to form
number 437 dated 29 March 1990 at 10:00 hours. We have found
death to have been caused by a hemorrhage in the head and in the
(illegible) tissues as a result of a car accident.
Seal: Directorate of the Emergency Hospital
at Al-Ta'meem - Seal of Forensic Medicine
21. Information for the Directorate of Nationality and
Civil Affairs (To be extracted from the Civil
Affairs Identification Card)
Record Number: 581 Page Number: 1009
Governorate: Al-Najaf Identification Card Number: 865011
To be attached to the certificate
__________________________________________________________________
Horiyya Press - 1987 Copy for Relatives Note: Mark X in the
appropriate place
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
(Secret)
Headquarters
1st Company, Fsield Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/10/121
Date: 17 March 1990
22 Shewaal 1410 H
To: Field Engineer Battalion/18
Subject: Response
Reference your secret letter number 172 of 17 March 1990, we
are enclosing the list you requested.
Encl.
1. List
(Signed)
Captain Maged Orabi Abdel Reheem
Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Documents Evaluation (A.B.C.)
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_________________________________________________________________
Ser. Rank Full Name Name of Item
No
_________________________________________________________________
1 Lt. Maher Abed (illegible) Steam Iron
2 Lt. Emad Aly Rasheed Steam iron
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Secret and Urgent
Time and Day of Writing
17/5
From: Field Engineer Battalion/17
To: 1st Company
Number:A/3/204 Sheen Sah
66
____
17/5/1990
________
A/10
Reference the 18th Division's secret and urgent letter number
3304 of 12 May and subsequent to our secret letter number 172 of
17 May, please furnish us with what is required today to conduct
the ballot in the division. Please advise us.
(Signed)
1st Lt. Khaled Garalla Gaber
for Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
Take the necessary action
17/5
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IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY THE MERCIFUL THE COMPASSIONATE
(Secret)
107
____
17/5/1990
_________
A/10
Headquarters
Fsield Engineer Battalion/18
Number: A/3/172
Date: 17 May 1990
To: 1st Company
Subject: Distribution of Items
Reference the Directorate of Supply's letter number 3900 of
23 April, which was communicated by letter number 58662 on 6 May
1990 from the 4th Corps (Supply and the 18th Division's letter
number 2298 of 11 May 1990, the items listed below have been
allocated for our division's units. Please furnish the names of
the active officers willing to purchase the listed items (one item
per officer):
Serial Type of Material Available Quantity
Number
__________________________________________________________________
1 Steam iron 11
2 Eshtar heater 2
3 Cooker 1
4 Ala-Eddin heater 5
5 Air conditioner 1
6 Cooker filter 5
7 Oil heater 1
8 9 feet refrigerator 1
9 Table cooker 5
10 Regular air conditioner 2
11 3500 feet air conditioner 1
12 Andola fan 3
13 Table fan 1
14 Banara breeze fan 1
15 Andola vertical fan 1
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16 2/5 X 3/5 Baghdad carpet 1
17 3/2 Baghdad carpet 4
18 Baghdad carpet 1 X 2 8
19 Baghdad carpet of various sizes 4
20 2 X 3 Babel carpet 1
21 2 X 3 Shah Zaad carpet 1
(Signed)
1st Lt. Khaled Garalla Gaber
For Commander, 1st Company, Field Engineer Battalion/18
For coordination
17/5
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