Agreed, to both of you; e.g., in the First Gulf War we were allied with Syria, which was probably hiding Saddam’s WMDs.
They were...Three Chemical Parcel Tankers left Iraq (hull down, loaded) in December of 2002...Just before we jumped off on Iraq...
There departure was noted in the international press, but the destination was never investigated only a general direction was noted as they left the Persian Gulf...
I believe there were some discussions about those ships on FR over the years since then...
Draw your conclusions...I am sure the intelligence services in several countries had better information on this than we ever saw...