I videotaped the 4 minute segment on Greta Van Susteren's show tonight when she interviewed ex-CIA Director, James Woolsey. This is what he said on the matter:
"[Garbled] defected from Iraq in 1995 and admitted to making 8,500 liters of anthrax.
He was the head of the bio war-fare program.
Ah, that's 8 1/2 tons -- less than 1/2 a tractor trailer -- that fills up a two-car garage.
And if you reduce it to powder it's 4 suitcases.
Now, Colin Powell said in his speech before the Security Council, that we thought it was about 3 times that.
So, OK, 3 two-car garages; 12 suitcases. If that's the difference between a large stockpile and a small stockpile, ah, you know, we're into some fine nuance, there."
Last Sunday (1-25-04) I happened to be watching Fox when Eric Shawn did a 3 minute interview with intelligence analyst, John Loftus. Eric mentioned the fact that David Kay had just said that it is quite possible that stockpiles of WMD may have been moved from Iraq to Syria, and asked John what he thought about that.
I transcribed what Loftus said (take it for what it's worth):
John Loftus: "Yeah, for about 6 months now I've been saying that in the 8 to 10 weeks just before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein moved the key components of his WMD across the border to Syria and some were later buried in the Bekkah Valley. And it's been confirmed by our space satellites; by a Syrian defector who talked openly about the three cities in Syria where these weapons were kept and the Israelis have confirmed it.
And, oh, I talked with my friends in the Pentagon this week, because I was very concerned about Kay's statement on Friday saying that, you know, no weapons stockpiles ever existed inside Iraq.
Well, it turns out that Kay was "speaking spy". And he has retracted that statement -- or clarified it in an article today in the Sunday Telegraph. Kay said that he has confirmed from prisoner interrogations that some components of Saddam Hussein's WMD program were in fact shipped to Syria before the war. So he's not denying that Saddam had WMD, he's just saying that they weren't in weapons form until the [garbled. ?issues?] in Iraq."
Eric: You know John, what really concerns me about the Bekkah Valley situation is you've got Hezbolla, you've got Islamic Jihad, you know, they're all there. Could they get their hands on these weapons, potentially, and use them, if they are there, against Israel?
John: The Syrian army has pulled out of the Bekkah Valley except in the northeast corner where they have two armored brigades. And the suspicion is that those brigades are there because they are camped right over the fields where the WMD are buried. The US is -- the war planners have a number of options, including special forces going in to take the weapons.
Understand - we can't just bomb these buried weapons because an explosive bomb isn't hot enough to incinerate liquid anthrax and VX nerve gas. That's what we think is buried there."
Eric: "So you're saying that there ARE plans in the Pentegon to potentially send special forces into the Bekkah Valley to try and secure this material -- material which, byy the way, Syria denies that it has?"
John: "Yeah - Syria's been caught in a flat-out lie, but it's not the first time. We had an unusual defector this week who appeared in a German war crimes trial court saying that he was an Iranian intelligence officer and that before 9-11, both Syria and Iran knew of 9-11 and were helping al Qaeda. Bombshell testimony.
The Syrians have been putting out a phony story about where their true allegiances lie, but the Pentagon is not having any more of it and they're gearing up the war machine. Syria is on the "you're next" list."
Eric: "So it seems to me, maybe fighting the war on terror potentially on another front could be Syria and Hezbolla. ..."