[sarasota]

Agreed. This stuff has been trucked out of Iraq to Syria for a very long time.

[trebb]

This stuff has been trucked out of Iraq to Syria for a very long time.

Yes - with special thanks to the UN, France, Germany, and other "friends" for delaying, obstructing and foot-dragging to give Iraq plenty of time to "clean house" before we finally went in.

[Peach]

Didn't Colin Powell mention satellite pictures of convoys leaving Iraq and going to Syria in the fall of '02 when he spoke to the UN? As I recall, he said they feared that WMD were being moved out of Iraq.

[alloysteel]

This revelation does not surprise me. The hiatus between September 2002 and early March 2003, between the time the US announced intentions to hold Saddam accountable, through all the time France balked the entire world from taking any action through the UN, until the pursuit of Saddam began in earnest, 18-wheelers were hammering across the western desert of Iraq to the Bekaa Valley in Syria, around the clock and in convoy, fully loaded westbound and deadheading back. And the cargo did not all stop in Syria.

A sizable quantity was transhipped to Libya, the Palestinian Authority and Yemen, among other places. Saddam was having a fire sale, right under our noses.